“Go! Go Forward!”   (Romans 15: 20 -24 )

by | Nov 15, 2020 | Sermon Text

How often do we stop to recognize that God’s covenant interaction with humanity starts with the simple command, “Go”? God says to Abram, “Go! Go from your country and go from your kindred to the land that I will show you.” God says to Moses, “Go confront Pharaoh and...

“I, Tertius . . .“   (Romans 16: 22)

by | Oct 25, 2020 | Sermon Text

Occasionally, when I am in a feisty and perverse mood, I tease some of my fundamentalist friends by telling them that Paul did not write a single book in our Bible.  When they sputter and fume, I tell them that my source for this opinion is Paul himself.  Yes, he...