Category: Message

To My Flock James 4: 13-15 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: A Call for Unity This Sunday on the Presbyterian calendar is designated as Trinity Sunday. This usually calls for a very deep study on the triune God and can be very challenging to preach without losing people to the boredom of details. I have found… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: Living Water of Joy This Sunday we will celebrate Pentecost. This year things are different; our celebration seems more limited. I don’t know about you, but I think that I have taken the celebration of Pentecost for granted in previous years. Like everything else in… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: Why Does God Allow Suffering? The question “Why does God allow suffering?” is a complicated one. We believe in an all-powerful God who has everything in His control. This is true; God the creator of all things could control every detail of every life and… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: Pledge, Prepare, Proclaim Let me start this message, as I often do, with a reading from one of my devotionals. It is based on Luke 19: 10: “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” In America… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: Jesus Stands for Us It seems like a very long time since we last gathered together as a congregation. In conversations that I have had with some of you the same question arises over and over, when will we be able to have church. I… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: The Future As Christians we believe and rely on the Word of God, or at least we should. The quote, “I know not what the future holds; but I know who holds the future” is attributed to Homer. I do not know “who” Homer was… Continue reading

To My Flock at Marion: How Will We Respond I have been giving some thought to this issue of time. Most of us right now have too much time on our hands. We are tempted to complain about this; it’s only natural for us to complain about our circumstances; it’s… Continue reading