Choices

This day begins as any other day. Hot, dusty, the smell of the animals moving on the road, stirring up the dust, the cursing of drivers shouting, the smells of cooking, the neighbors arguing as usual – yet there is something different about this day. I hear talk about...

A Hope For A Family

Twenty-First Sunday of Pentecost – 14 October 2018 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man…asked him, “…what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “You know the commandments, “Jesus replied….”Teacher; I have kept all these since my youth.” “Jesus, looking at him,...

But who do you say I am?

17 PentecostProper 19 Isaiah 50:4-9aPsalm 116:1-8James 3: 1-12Mark 8:27-38 Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “ John the Baptist; and others Elijah; and still others one of the prophets.” “But who do you say that I am?” When do you fix a leaky roof?...

Ever build a Pole Barn?

12 Pentecost Proper 14 I Kings 19: 4-8 Psalm 34: 1-8 Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 We bought our place because it had the essentials. Horse barn, pasture for horses, house. We finally figured out though that a garage would be nice. So we built a garage using...

Confession

Confession is good for the soul. I grew up in Texarkana, Arkansas. There is, of course, a Texarkana, Texas. And as a matter of fact it is a larger town than Texarkana, Arkansas. Its schools are larger, bigger. Its high school is larger, bigger. Its football team is...