All Saints’ Sunday November 5, 2017 Matthew 5: 1-12 You can click on the link above to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser One thing must be perfectly clear on this 500th Anniversary year of the Reformation. Protestants don’t have saints. Dr Martin Luther wanted to be perfectly clear about that. The practice in […]
Signed, Sealed, Delivered….
All Saints’ Sunday November 6, 2016 Ephesians 1: 11-23 You can click on this link to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser Two weeks ago we buried Lolita Cramer. Last week we buried Bertha Olsen. What is it that we trust when we say that they have gone home to Jesus and that […]
Raising the Dead
All Saints’ Day November 1, 2015 John 11: 32-44 You can click on this link to open the text in Oremus Bible Browser. “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” I wonder how the parents of those Roseburg students might hear this; or people who are facing the loss […]
Who is Beautiful?
All Saints’ Sunday November 3, 2013 Luke 6:20-31 “Beauty is as beauty does,” my Mom used to tell me. I remember it especially when I was a sophomore at Tucson High School. The really cool girls were cheerleaders and models for the local travel brochures. They usually had advantages that I did not – […]