Love One Another, How Exactly?
 John 15:12-17 and Exodus 20:12-17 NRS John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I [...]

Resurrection at Christmas
 John 11:1-44 
Our text this morning is a little odd for the Christmas season. You might expect one of those shepherd stories, or maybe John the Baptist, something that is going to prepare the way for us. But instead we are going to read about the resurrection of Lazarus. Why? For one thing, the [...]

  Visual Prayer of Confession shown during 12/09/07 service (ppt file) (right-click to download)

Festival of Light

John 10:30-39 
Earlier in the Service our Prayer of Confession was visual and is referred to in the sermon. The slide show is online above.
Our text from the gospel of John today is Chapter 10 verse 30 through 39. This is later [...]

Wrong Question
 John 9 NRS John 9:1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed [...]