Krehl going to college— it wasn’t until the car was pulling out of the driveway that I realized what I was losing. What I had was wonderful

Our gospel text today tells two stories filled with the unexpected -- or perhaps one story interrupted by an unexpected story. And the good

Our first reading today and our gospel text deal with questions. Job has asked questions about God, and God responds with questions in our

I am curious to know -- show of hands. How many of you had (or have) grandparents who grew up on a farm? How many had parents who grew up

They went out to restrain him because they thought he was losing his mind. That was their reason. I wonder, how often are we “held back”

The message today is simple: Do all things with love. That’s it. So simple. I have had a hard time coming up with a sermon today, and

Last Tuesday I stood in the research room of the National Archives’ Philadelphia facility — and in my hands was a document that few people

The time of Jesus’ ministry on this earth is coming to an end. And there were two great themes which occupied His heart. The first was to

Happy Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis hated Mother’s Day -- not really. She hated what it became. She created it to honor mothers — most notably,

We had a leaky window in one of our homes that we couldn’t stop. We tried multiple times. Sometimes it seemed that we had succeeded — then

In many ways, life is like that. Our lives can be busy, we can have full schedules and know lots of people -- we can have successful career

Today is the fourth Sunday of the Easter season; a day traditionally referred to as “Good Shepherd Sunday.” Every year on this Sunday we

In the days following the resurrection, the followers of Jesus didn’t know what to think. If we try to imagine ourselves there with them,

Something has happened between the resurrection and our first two readings for today. Something has happened that changes the game.

They were on their way to do the gruesome duty of anointing the dead and battered body of one they had loved, and they wondered, “who will

Many of you have heard me speak before about power — and how what is perceived as “power” differs depending upon what one believes. I have

There were some Greeks who wanted to see Jesus. And John doesn’t tell us why. Were they believers -- were they seeking -- or merely

n 1988, the world watched as three gray whales, trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska, floated battered and bloody, gasping for breath

The Ming Dynasty of China was more than two centuries old by the end of the 1500's. While there had been a sporadic presence of Christians

Simon Says...Follow the Leader Children’s games in which one doesn’t necessarily do what one wants, but what they are willing to let someone