The Circle of Seeing and Believing
 
We have two passages of scripture today from the gospel of John, First from the second chapter and then from the end of the fourth chapter. The two pieces of scripture are related; they are intended to be bookends on a section of this gospel. So we will listen to [...]

Power to Become Children of God
 John 1:1-18 
The scripture this morning is John 1: 1-18. Before I read it I’d like to say a couple of words about it. First of all what I’m reading is my translation of the Greek. Translations are interesting. Some translations are word for word; if I were to read that [...]

The Logos is Sent
John 1:1-18 
So we begin a journey today. Between now and April 13, 2008, I kid you not,  we are going to delve into the gospel according to
St. John. Why? Because I thought it was about time I read the thing. At least read it carefully.  I’ve been comfortable for some time with [...]

The Son of God?
 Matthew 16:13-16 
The last in our series of sermons that we were requests. The request came to talk about what it means to be the son of a human being or the son of God, the Messiah . . . who was Jesus?  Is really the question before us. So I chose as [...]