Posts Categorized: sermons

All Things Are Possible

Click here to listen to the sermon: Podcast 070713 edited All things are possible through Christ.  All things are possible, except maybe leaving a friends house with three children without breaking something.  This week went to a friend’s house for the fourth of July, and we spent much of the afternoon in their backyard having a… Read more »

In the Name of Love …

Listen Here: Sermon Several months ago, Jack and I were at a Board of Ordained Ministry meeting together, and he asked me how Broadmoor—Shreveport was going and I asked him how The Well was treating him.  He asked me where I was headed after Broadmoor.  “I don’t know,” I said.  “It would be good to be… Read more »

We Believe

When the day of Pentecost came, the disciples were all in one place.  The Holy Spirit descended upon them and remained with them.  Filled with the Spirit, the disciples began speaking in different languages.  These words were not a spiritual language of indiscernible sounds in need of interpretation; conversely the Spirit was speaking to the… Read more »

One-Liners

My mother has some great one-liners.  Growing up in a small town in Mississippi, having great one-liners is a graduation requirement.  There are her one-liners in the car: “I never nap in the car when your father is driving because I want to see the fatal crash.”  “Is it pull-out-in-front-of-me day because there ain’t a… Read more »

The Twin–Second Sunday of Easter

Dr. Lindsey Pherigo, professor at St. Paul’s School of Theology, once described the Gospel of John as a beautiful string of pearls.  Each story is beautiful in and of itself, but when they are strung together, they become a beautiful work of art.  Good art is much more than brush strokes on a canvas.  Good… Read more »

An Idle Tale?

Many years ago my Father and I were walking along the beach and I asked him, “How do you know God exists?”  He thought for a moment.  Then he said, “Do you see that flock of seagulls hovering over the water there?  I know that there is a school of fish just below the surface. … Read more »

The Last Words of Christ: Forsaken

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  Jesus’ words from the cross rattle our bones and shake our soul by turning our Godly assumptions inside out.  Is it that God is abandoning his son, his only beloved son?  Is the burden of the world’s sin so great that a holy God must avert… Read more »

Last Words of Christ: Family

When I say the word, “Family,” what image appears in your mind?   Do you see a happy memory of a vacation or time around the dinner table or a holiday?  Maybe you see that Aunt or Uncle who really wasn’t an Aunt or Uncle.  You were so close to them that you considered them as… Read more »

The Last Words of Christ: Paradise

Last week we sat at the foot of the cross and heard, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”  These words from God’s Word open our mind and heart to the counterintuitive power of grace.  How are we to respond to a “Grace that is greater than all our sin,” as… Read more »

The Last Words of Christ: Forgiveness

The season of Lent is a time in which we prepare our heart, mind, and soul for Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.  Typically we would hear stories of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem: the over-turning of the Temple money-changing tables, the last supper, Jesus’ denial, betrayal, arrest, trail, and crucifixion.  This year we will begin this… Read more »