Sermon text: Mark 16: 1-8 I will begin this sermon with a little performance art. Today, I will sing for you the classic tune “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” beginning with the second word. Me out to the ball game take Me out with the crowd buy Me some peanuts and Cracker Jack …
Passion text: John 18:1- 19:42 This week I was driving through Hollidaysburg and I spotted a very black billow of smoke rising into the air. My immediate reaction was alarm; something was on fire! But the billow was short lived. It turned out to be only a puff drifting up into the sky. A moment …
Sermon text: John 13: 1-17, 31b-35 In the 1960s Peter Scholtes was working as a Catholic priest on the South Side of Chicago. At the time he was directing a youth choir and was looking for an appropriate song for an ecumenical and interracial event. After a long search he came up empty and decided …
Sermon text: Mark 11: 1-11 Jesus rides into Jerusalem on the back of a colt and in Mark we read, “Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.” Now, as we celebrate Palm Sunday we follow suit with our shouts of “hosanna!” and …
It was 9:30 in the morning on Saturday, June 9, 2018. I was standing at the lower overlook at Chimney Rocks. It was a beautiful morning, with just a little morning mist coming down from the passing clouds. I stood on that spot, overlooking, and I was filled with memories. Remembering the impromptu mountain bike …