Sparrows and Surprises

Genesis 28:10-17 and Matthew 10:24-33 Jeff Davidson             When I was the pastor at the Lower Miami congregation in Dayton Ohio, the parsonage had a wood stove in the living room.  Not a fire place, but one of those stand-alone wood stoves, like a Franklin stove, a couple of feet…

Transformed Seeing

Isaiah 51:1-6 and Romans 12:1-8 Nathan Hosler A little over a week ago I went south to Raleigh, North Carolina for the National Farm Worker Ministry’s board meeting. While my primary objective was to participate in the meetings and activities of the board I did manage to wander the streets of Raleigh the evening before…

Let My People Go, So That They May Worship Me

Luke 4: 14-21 Psalm 72 Bryan Hanger Our Nigerian sisters have been kept away from their homes since April. It’s been over 120 days since they were taken. They were taken from their school against their will to be captives and slaves even. Boko Haram, the insurgent group responsible, has shown no hope of mercy…

With Them in Their Suffering

Romans 12:9-21; Galatians 3:26-29; Matthew 6:5-18  Jennifer Hosler If you’ve been looking at the news lately, you’ve seen that our world is full of sorrow and suffering and violence. We look around the planet and see war in Gaza and rockets in Israel, we see festering problems in eastern Ukraine, violence against Christians and Yazidis…

THE LORD IS GOOD TO ALL

Matthew 14:13-21, Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21  Preached by Jeff Davidson – Slightly modified from “Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes”, a sermon preached by Fr. Jerry Fuller, o.m.i.  To see the original sermon go to http://www.spirit-net.ca/sermons/a-or18-fuller.php     Three mice died and went to heaven. After a couple of days, St. Peter stopped by and asked them how…