Intersections

     You may be able to see what the sermon might look like this morning. But, maybe,  in the excitement of the basketball tournament and our event later this morning, maybe we should have served chicken wings for everyone here to make sure to look underneath them. You may also be thinking let's hope I don't use foul language.  But seriously folks - I shouldn’t make light of Jesus’ words this morning. But, in thinking about how hens and foxes relate, there are many idioms and phrases that relate to this. Given that history, they seem to be pretty sworn enemies. Some of the ones I came across were: “madder than a wet hen” - that must be a Southern phrase, because it doesn’t seem to make much sense to me. Chickens really don’t mind the rain, it’s not like they’re scared of it either. Another phrase that I’ve actually heard was “as scarce as a hen’s tooth”… I can see that one. Chickens don’t have teeth, so it’s gotta be something super rare. The last one, which get...

  Ah... the good old days... back when everything was more simple, am I right? I’m sure each of you has a story or two about “back in my day...” that you could tell me about. It may even involve being thrown in a snowbank (my uncle’s favorite threat), or walking to school, uphill both ways in waist-high snow, barefoot. We have gained so much in the 60-odd years since this church was built, yet I believe its best days are still in front of us. Technologies have changed, improved, and re-evaluated modern life, but not everything can be the way it was when we began.  In 1959, when this church was started, a few other things were: the middle of the Cold War - that probably wasn’t difficult for anyone... Vice President Nixon met on LIVE TELEVISION with the Russian President and debated on the merits of each of their systems. Could you imagine something like that today? The Pioneer 4 unmanned spacecraft was supposed to do a fly-by of the Moon and photograph it. It failed to take any...