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August 2026

August 11, 2026

Finding Faith at the Field of Dreams

Finding Faith at the Field of Dreams "If you build it, he will come,” a...

October 2025

October 12, 2025

Danger on the Jericho Road: Who is my Neighbor?

There is danger on the Jericho Road. “Who is your neighbor?” Jesus asks. “Not the...

September 2025

September 29, 2025

Repent! Does it Really Mean What We Think?

“Repent,” Jesus says in Matt. 4:17, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But...

April 2025

April 16, 2025

Acting in Faith: Being Present in the Moment

I’m halfway through the performance schedule of Dial “M” for Murder at Hanover Tavern, one...

March 2025

March 16, 2025

3 lessons From the Early Celtic Church

Churches today can learn 3 lessons from the early Celtic Church. More than 1,500 years...

October 2024

October 14, 2024

Christian Trump Supporters are Wrong

Christian supporters of convicted felon Donald Trump are wrong. They are wrong just like tens...

September 2024

September 23, 2024

Notes From a Sermon: Earthly Wisdom and Godly Wisdom

Notes From a Sermon: Earthly Wisdom and Godly Wisdom James 3:13-18, 4:1-8, talks about two...

July 2024

July 27, 2024

“Is Your God too Small?”

My sermon this week asks the question, “Is Your God too Small?” Usually, I don’t...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

How is God Like an Elephant?

Do you know how God is like an Elephant? Sometimes we can see God and...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

Is Jesus the Only Way to Heaven?

Is Jesus the Only Way to Heaven? Many Christians believe so, based on these words...

December 2023

December 24, 2023

“Christ in the Rubble” by Kelly Latimore

For more about Kelly Latimore, visit his website: Jim Meisner, Jr. is...

December 18, 2023

The Savior in A Charlie Brown Christmas

How many times have you seen A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Emmy award-winning TV program...

December 17, 2023

Shamash — the helper

A seven-branched menorah symbolizes Jewish Temple tradition. The nine-branched Hanukkah menorah is lit during the...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Progressive Christianity in 2023

This year Progressive Christians will continue their efforts to bring justice to the oppressed, to...

May 2022

May 22, 2022

Communion is for Everyone

Or else it's for no one. Communion is for everyone. The presence of God found...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

Palm Sunday 2022

What’s the context of Jesus riding into the capital city? When he entered Jerusalem, the...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The lost — notes for a sermon

Luke 15:1-32 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 15 Now the tax collectors and sinners were...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

Midnight Mass— a mini review

According to IMDB, the series Midnight Mass is where “an isolated island community experiences miraculous...

July 2021

July 03, 2021

God’s power is made perfect in us, through our weaknesses

According to Frederick Buechner, “Paul WASN'T MUCH TO LOOK AT. "Bald-headed, bowlegged, strongly built, a...

June 2021

June 26, 2021

Even when God is silent – I believe

Notes for a sermon... Psalm 130 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you,...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

Jesus in the Garden on Easter Sunday

Jesus in the Garden -- An Easter Sunday sermon from 2021. John 20:1-18 Early on...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Jesus Drives Out the Unclean Spirits

(My sermon for Jan. 30, 2021) Mark 1:21-28 1:21 They went to Capernaum; and when the...

January 07, 2021

2021 Has Begun With the Unimaginable

So much happened in 2020 that we couldn’t imagine. The virus and the hundreds of...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

“Who do people say that I am?”

Mark 8:27-38 27Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and...

September 2020

September 03, 2020

Interesting Times

My grandmother taught in a one room school house. She was sixteen, teaching all grade...

August 2020

August 02, 2020

What is faith?

What is faith? Is it our belief in God? Or the confidence we have in...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

Faith on the Field of Dreams

In the movie Field of Dreams, Ray, his wife and daughter, and Terrance Mann can...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

Living in Interesting Times

My grandmother taught in a one room school house. She was sixteen, teaching all grade...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

An Easter Sunday Video

An Easter Sunday video.

April 06, 2020

Maundy Thursday and Good Friday 2020

The baby born at Christmas is murdered on Good Friday. Battered, broken and betrayed, the...