6th Sunday after Epiphany February 12, 2017 Matthew5: 21-37 Jesus is our preacher again this morning. And he’s doing that thing that preachers do, hyperbole – overinflated statements and examples to make your point. Since we are used to taking scripture at face value, I wonder if the first audience would have heard the […]
Standing in the Light
5th Sunday after Epiphany February 5, 2017 Matthew 5: 13-20 You can click on this link to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser Last week, Chris Cookston from Prineville Community Church wrote for the Central Oregonian Faith Page. He talked about being with God forever and finally achieving the holiness we longed for […]
Who Do You Trust?
8th Sunday after Epiphany February 27, 2011 Matthew 6:24-34 January of 2004 found me in Mexico City fulfilling my “Cross-Cultural Experience.” Seminary students were required to spend 120 hours in another culture. I was terrified. I was going to meet the poor and it scared me to death. I had struggled long and hard as […]
Not Sissy Stuff
7th Sunday after Epiphany February 20, 2011 Matthew 5:38-48 In October 2006, horror struck the peaceful community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. A man, Charles Roberts, angry at God for the loss of his baby daughter nine years before, walked into a school and began to shoot children, killing five girls and wounding another five. When […]