Intersections

Hallelujah! I didn’t hear you - hallelujah! I just needed to get a few more in there this morning, it’s a great morning!  It’s been pretty quiet around since Friday night - and all day Saturday, but here we are… Jesus is risen! Hallelujah! Thank you all for being here on what seems to be the second-most popular day of the year, since the marketing machines haven’t found a way to monetize this holiday - yet.  Anyway - We have our familiar story… Luke is a classic text that I’m sure most of you are familiar with, and if not, then… I hope you enjoy this sermon I’ve prepared for you today, and hopefully it may inspire you to want to come back next week.  So we start out early in the morning, when it may have still been dark or light was just breaking over the horizon, kind of makes you think of the story of creation. Although Jesus was dead, God still commanded the sun to rise. God raised Adam and Eve out of the dirt, and raised them up in their image, as it say...

  As much as I've enjoyed the winter weather... I can't help but to look ahead to when it's a little warmer outside. I know it's a little before the season, but does anyone enjoy garage sales? I mean, it's a great way to clear out stuff from your house you've accumulated, and if you're lucky, then you can get some cash out of it to do whatever you want with, whether it's to trade it for more stuff or not!   Anyway - about five years ago, at our old house, we tried to have a garage sale. We got all our stuff around, put on a half dozen tables, labeled & priced everything to move. It was part of a whole neighborhood two-day sale; we thought - how can we not get rid of this stuff?? We opened the garage on the first morning, hoping there'd be a line down our street. There was no one. We said, maybe it's just early - the people will come later.  At the end of the first day, we had no customers. What we didn't realize is that as much as w...

  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...