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How Can You Give Your Time to God? (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning. The text I preached on was the Second Reading, Acts 8:14-17. This was the first in a four-week Stewardship Program. Today’s theme was “Giving our Time to God Changes Everything.” When word reached the apostles in Jerusalem that Samaria had accepted God’s word,…
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Thirteen
When I was a child, all I ever wanted to be was an astronaut. I loved learning about outer space, especially about the planets in our solar system. (Although, I must say, I was not scandalized by Pluto’s “demotion” to dwarf planet status in 2006. Given the discoveries of other objects in the solar system at…
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Twelve
I have this theory about the twelve tribes of Israel. But before I explain it, I ought to start by telling you what I mean when I use the word myth. I am a Christian; I believe in God and in Jesus Christ. I believe that there is an abundance of truth found in both the Hebrew Bible…
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Eleven
I just watched the movie Wonder Woman a few weeks ago. It’s wonderful. I really didn’t know much about it except the hype that it was great, apparently much better than every other DC Extended Universe movie. I didn’t know that it took place at the end of World War I. I hope I’m not spoiling…
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Ten
Who remembers 10–10-220? Or maybe 10–10-321? Or 10–10-987? Anybody who watched television in the late 90’s should have at least a vague memory of that. It was a way of making discounted long-distance calls from a carrier other than the one you had a contract with. Huh? Long-distance call? It’s amazing, absolutely amazing, how phones…
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Nine
Sometimes mathematics can be counterintuitive. Take, for example, the following equation: 0.9999… = 1 The ellipsis following the nines means that the nines continue to infinity. On the surface, this equation seems wrong. I mean, think about it. You can tell that 0.9 is close to 1, and that 0.99 is even closer, but doesn’t it seem…
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A Very, Very Quick Survey
I invite all readers of this to answer a very, very quick one-question survey. Unlike the last survey I posted, I promise this one will not cause any discomfort whatsoever. I also promise that you’ll see the results posted here within the next month. Thank you for your time. Take the survey here.
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Eight
I had eight serious girlfriends before meeting my wife, roughly one a year from age 14 through 21. It’s very easy to enumerate them, because I really never dated casually. I fell madly in love, and I was intensely into these relationships. All eight of these relationships eventually ended, and that was always heart-wrenching. Anyway, before…
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Seven
Seven is such an arbitrary number. There are seven days in the week. Why? Well, because either the Babylonians or the Hebrews, or possibly both independently, decided that something that’s close to (but not quite) a quarter of a moon was helpful. There are seven luminaries in the sky, the “classical planets,” all the traveling stars that didn’t…
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Oh, King Herod (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Epiphany of Our Lord. The gospel text was Matthew 2:1-12. Oh, King Herod. Your days were numbered, and you knew it. The magi arrived from the east, and what they told you scared you. They brought word of a birth, a child,…
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