Psalm 126 When was the last time you were out-of-control excited? I mean yelling and screaming and slapping each other on the back and hugging excited. I’ve felt this way for sports events. I was a New York Knickerbockers fan (that’s a basketball team) when they won the championship in 1970. That one was frustrating…
Psalm 125 We come this morning to the sixth of the psalms of ascent, Psalm 125. These psalms, 120 to 134 are psalms the Hebrew pilgrims sang as they made their way up to Jerusalem for the three annual festivals. Each psalm speaks to a part of the journey. Psalm 120 starts out with the…
Psalm 122 What is the best excuse you ever heard for not going to church? This past year I wrote, with my father, his oral history. He was in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII and this is his excuse: In the Navy, I went to church once. And there was an earthquake. It…
Psalm 121 Just a couple weeks ago, lottery fever swept across the United States. The largest jackpot in US history was available, 363 million dollars. It cost only $1 to buy a ticket with the right combination of numbers and be a winner. For just $1 you could win 363 million dollars. Of course imaginative…
Matthew 25: 31-46 Since my daughter Caitlin is here this Sunday, I thought I’d tell you about a time when our family acted out this story of the Judgement Day and the sheep and goats being separated. There was a period of time when we, as a family, for our devotions, used to read a…