Change of Focus This Week

       Instead of sharing with you about yesterday’s sermon I’d like to invite you to do some background reading for next Sunday’s “Only Murders in the Bible.”  Seeing that it is All Saints Day this Sunday, we are going to look at the very first Christian martyr, Stephen. 

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The Lost Benediction

          Depending on the length of the sermon, I try to add a little something extra in my benedictions.  This week I wrote up a benediction but then realized we’d be singing and waving our umbrellas to some New Orleans jazz.

Change of Focus This Week

       Instead of sharing with you about yesterday’s sermon I’d like to invite you to do some background reading for next Sunday’s “Only Murders in the Bible.”  Seeing that it is All Saints Day this Sunday, we are going to look at the very first Christian martyr, Stephen. 

You Might Be Thinking It’s All About You If…

In working on Sunday’s sermon I asked my computer’s AI if she/he could come up with a few suggestions in answer to the above: "You Might be thinking it’s all about you, if…." 

Prayer Changes Things

Here is a transcript of the prayer I prayed at the end of yesterday’s sermon. 

Optimism, Faith, and Hope:

Practical Steps For Increasing All Three

Here are some practical, spiritual, and relational ways to grow faith, hope and optimism: