Ephesians1:11-23 It is what we all dread, although we know it is inevitable. No one on earth lives forever, and the end will come for each one of us, even though we don’t know when. But one day the moment arrives. A loved one dies. It may come so much sooner than was expected that we feel like death has cheated. Or it may come after a long full life – perhaps even as a mercy. In any case, we grieve – for ourselves mostly. We are the ones who will carry the sorrow of the loss. But yet there is a will to be read. A last will and testament that our beloved has left behind. We are called to the reading and so we go. We sit down in front of the attorney’s desk – or counselor, we might call them – and wait to hear what has […]
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How Shall We Build Our House?
Nehemiah 8:1-10 ; Luke 4:14-21 Last week I reminisced a bit about the old days when the churches were full on most Sundays – when the ushers were responsible for helping you find a place to sit, when Sunday school classes were bursting at the seams, both children and adult – like the photo above! It isn’t like that anymore. The last time I remember people flocking to houses of worship as though it meant something important to them was in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. They didn’t exactly fill the sanctuaries, but that was a time when many people returned to church after a period of absence. It was a time when casual worship-goers came in looking more purposeful than usual, like they were actually looking for something that mattered. It was a time when we were startled out of our complacency; a sharp reminder that we are not […]
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