This weekend an old grief returned to haunt me. My faith felt weak and limited in the presence of this old foe. So, I reached back into a sermon I preached August 19, 2012 and rediscovered the simple faith of a widow and her gift of two small copper coins and remembered a prayer that can help you when you feel you’ve run out of your resources to cope.
The old country Methodist left church one Sunday grumbling, “That pastor’s quit preachin’ and gone to meddlin’!” That old phrase, circulated in some form among Baptist and Methodist circles, captures those inevitable days when the pastor crosses the line and steps out of the preformatted box that the church member had conceived for their pastor…
The Lord is Not Home Today “Calling out Kindness!” Appropriate music for this would be “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals. “Compassion is Criminal!” “Trust me! It’s in My Bible!” “Don’t You Want to Spend Eternity with ME!?” Merger of Church and State: The Death of Empathy Ultra Christian nationalists partnered with corrupt…
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A Christian Zionist and a Jewish Zionist fight in Jerusalem to choose winner. Winner captures the flag. Loser gets “Manifest Indigestion.” In the Beginning was the Conspiracy Certain evangelical Christians believe that a sign of the second coming of the Messiah manifests as their physical, political occupation of Jerusalem as God’s chosen people. Some believe…
St. Trump Addresses His Faithful “Blessed are the MAGA, for they have bent the knee.” “Woe to those who care for the needy!” “Behold! None like me since Jesus Christ.” “Deacon” alerts on scent of the unfaithful We are sick and tiredOf being promised this and that.We work all day, we sweat and slaveTo keep…
