At Ease in Zion
Amos 7:7-17 Towson Presbyterian Church, Maryland – August 3, 2025 Today’s passage from Amos is not one of the easier or friendlier passages of the Bible. To be honest, it’s hard to find much comfort from Amos at all. You may well wonder why we would read such a difficult passage for our focus this…
Presence in the Material World
Thank you for joining us on this Earth Sunday! My maternal grandparents would have had a lot to share with us; they were farmers in rural Mississippi. They were born at home in the 1890s, before hospitals, electricity, or indoor plumbing had made it to that part of the world. You can’t get much closer…
Hope Matters
April 19, 2025 – Hope matters. Several years ago, I was fortunate to attend a conference focused on the role of trauma, particularly in domestic violence. One of the things we learned was that hope is crucial in helping victims of trauma recover. To those who have been rigorously trained to focus on specific action…
When Purity Goes Wrong
Luke 15:1-10 I grew up in a fairly strict religious home. I never heard either parent cuss. Thanks to an incident with flaming popcorn in a microwave oven, my children can’t say the same thing about me. One grandfather would get upset if someone said “golly” or “gosh” because those were just cleaned-up versions of…
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