by Angela Ward | Oct 4, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Jesus promised Nathaniel that he would “see greater things.” Not everyone agrees. Do you remember Steven Hawking, the great Cambridge mathematician? Before he died last March, he was quoted as saying: I...
by Angela Ward | Sep 26, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. I really only have one thing to say in the little homily, and it’s this: God loves imperfect people! The pharisees (you remember them) saw this as Jesus’ great character flaw, because he hung out, and...
by Angela Ward | Sep 17, 2019 | Text Sermons
How would you describe your relationship with God? How would you describe other people’s relationships with God? Perhaps better questions are these: What does God think of you? What does God think of our neighbors? Are we good enough for God? Are our neighbors,...
by Angela Ward | Sep 9, 2019 | Text Sermons
I need to tell you that being a control freak—trying to overly manage everything in life —is both highly overrated and hopelessly antithetical to the life of grace. I say this to you not from some textbook, but from raw, repeated experience. I also need to tell you...
by Angela Ward | Sep 6, 2019 | Text Sermons
Today Jesus tells the first of two banquet parables to the Pharisees with whom he is eating. After Jesus heals a man, he notices how the Pharisees chose to position themselves in places of honor for the meal. Jesus’s instruction to the Pharisees then, and to us...
