Author: tan

Easter Sunday – the celebration of the Resurrection.  It doesn’t get any bigger than this.  The church, indeed the entire Christian faith would not exist without the resurrection.  For we…

Palm Sunday.  What a roller coaster ride this day is.  We start outside, which is unusual all by itself.  But even more, we create a big parade up and down…

My name is Rick, and I am a checkbook Christian. I’m not really sure how it began. Well, how do these things always begin? It was harmless enough at first.…

“The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." All are corrupt and commit abominable acts; there is none who does any good.  The Lord looks down from…

To appreciate the letter to Philemon, it is important to understand the world in which it was written.  The time is late in the first century, long after the resurrection,…

Now Jesus was teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath.  And there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years.  She was bent over and…

Faith “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”  There is much to discuss in this morning’s lessons, but this one phrase from…

When I read the lessons for this week, my first thought was, well this sermon will practically write itself.  I mean, this is a very familiar gospel passage. We all…

Lord, teach us to pray.  Remember that the people of this time were largely illiterate, with nothing that we would consider to be formal education.  They were an agrarian society…

We all know that person, the one who absolutely lives to entertain people.  They are the ones who seem to always have just the right touch. No detail is too…