Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus, and he wept, too, for Lazarus’s sisters, Mary and Martha. This trio of siblings were close friends with Jesus– how and why, we aren’t told. We just know that Jesus loved them deeply and went out of his way to spend...
“Give us the courage and strength to seek the truth, and spare us from those who have already found it.” Rev. Dr. Stephen Caine touches on our desire to want to know where to place blame when something goes wrong– an easy trap that the disciples fell...
We know little about the Samaritan woman at the well, but there are some things we can gather about her from cultural and historical knowledge, and it’s that Jesus went out of his way to talk to her despite her being a bottom-of-the-pole social pariah. She was a...
Rev. Canon Michael Spencer, filling in for our clergy (who were both away on business this past Sunday), preaches about Nicodemus, the Pharisee who approached Jesus to learn more and ask questions, even when he was struggling to wrap his head around what Jesus had to...
What do coffee and doughnuts have to do with the devil (besides being sinfully delicious)? Temptation– albeit small and relatively harmless temptations. Rev. Simon Barnes preaches on Jesus’s temptation in the desert and how we can resist the siren call of...