What’s next?

What’s next? (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
1 Peter 1:1-9
April 27, 2014

But what comes next?

It was an exhilarating, exhausting, excruciating, and euphoric week.  Not this week, but the preceding week, the week that began on Palm Sunday and ended on Easter Sunday.  If you paid close attention, if you followed Jesus every step of the way, if you opened your eyes and your ears to the horrors of what was done to him and the wonders of what was done by him, you were surely left limp, physically spent, emotionally drained. … Continue reading ...

Our common lot

Our common lot (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Luke 23:13-26
March 20, 2016

Who killed Jesus?

Pilate did.  He was the one, the only one, with the authority to have Jesus put to death, and that was the sentence he pronounced.  Reluctant or not, he made the decision.  Pilate, the agent of the Roman Empire in Judea, killed Jesus.… Continue reading ...