Lo, how a rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung, of Jesse’s lineage coming, as prophets long have sung. Isaiah ‘twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind;…
Perhaps it is hard to believe but people of this world have been encountering the God we know for longer than most of us can even imagine. And even though…
Right before we begin our celebrations of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany – our winter celebrations of hope and expectation – we finish the cycle of the church year with a…
Whether or not we express it openly, all of us have questions about the future. Depending on where we are in this journey of life, the questions will be different.…
Last year at this time we marked the 100th Anniversary of the First World War. It was a day for recalling the sacrifices of that war that was to end…
I am sure you have all noticed that the stories preserved for us in the pages of what we know as the Bible contain accounts of God’s interactions and relationships…
The parable we are presented with today gives us the picture of two people who have come to the Temple to pray. The Pharisee is one of a group in…
The passage that we read in the Book of Jeremiah today may seem, at first, like an odd choice for our theme today “Hope for the Future”. Being from a…
Keep safe the treasure! That is the directive that the apostle Paul gives to the young pastor Timothy. Timothy is a third generation Christian who was taught the faith through…
When I was attending university, I worked for the railway in the summers. It was a great job that offered a good wage with excellent working conditions and many opportunities…