Preacher's Corner

Called To What?

SECOND READING HEBREWS 5:1-10 / GOSPEL MARK 10:35-45 Well there’s that name again: “Melchizedek.” Even those who are fairly good at dwelling in their bibles as much as possible are only...

Staying Open To The Impossible

FIRST READING ISAIAH 25:6-9 SECOND READINGS:  REVELATION 21:1-6A / GOSPEL JOHN 11:32-44 I am always amazed at...

Boldly We Go

FIRST READING JOB 23:1-9, 16-17 / SECOND READING HEBREWS 4:12-16  I think that generally speaking modern men...

Not As It Should Be

FIRST READING JOB 1:1, 2:1-10 / GOSPEL MARK 10:2-16 Our Old Testament scripture today gives us this...

The Great Escape

PSALM 124:1-8 / SECOND READING JAMES 5:13-20  Have you ever made a seriously “great escape” in your...

The Servant of All

OK all you women out there – do you hear what the scripture is clearly saying? Get to work! There’s wool and flax to be...

The Word on Our Words

PSALM 19:1-14 / SECOND READING JAMES 3:1-12 1The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. 2Day to day pours...

To Whom Can We Go?

FIRST READING 1 KINGS 8:(1, 6, 10-11) 22-30 / GOSPEL JOHN 6:56-69 Ah – the wisdom of Solomon. Remember that his father David wanted to build...

Partaking of The Word Made Flesh

FIRST READING 1 KINGS 2:10-12, 3:3-14 /  GOSPEL JOHN 6:51-58 Of ALL the things that Solomon could have asked for . . . he asks...

It’s All Connected

 2 SAMUEL 11:26-12:13A /  Psalm 51 / EPHESIANS 4:1-16 “I have sinned against the Lord.” That is all that David says in response to Nathan’s story and...

Thou Shall Not Hate

FIRST READING JAMES 1:17-27/ GOSPEL MARK 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23  Watching the tragic events unfold at Smith Mountain Lake, in which two of our local television reporters...