Bulletins and Homilies

Jesus is at Jacob’s well.  He asks a Samaritan woman for a drink, and then Jesus explains that she should really be asking him for some “living water.”  She tells him the well is deep and he doesn’t even have a bucket. You can imagine Jesus wondering:  “Can you hear...

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? What does that statement mean…to you? I can’t tell you how many times… Things are said and told to me directly … And not ten seconds later, they are gone. Kathy can vouch for that.   I do hear, frequently, “I already told you that…and… we...

Jesus overcame the temptations in the wilderness. He made it possible for us to overcome our temptations. Be like Jesus and just say “no”.  Does that sound familiar?  Maybe it’s what you were taught, or have come to believe. I think it’s often a theme underlying Lent...

More than a half-century ago, Flannery O'Connor wrote a short story: A Good Man is Hard to Find. One of the main characters in the story is an elderly woman who is a difficult, stubborn and very unhappy person. Traveling to Florida with her family, she is constantly...

How many of us would skip to the ending of a classic novel or movie? For example, Consider the Wizard of Oz Spoiler alert! Cover your ears If you watched the last 2 ½ minutes of the Wizard of Oz, you would see On a storm-devasted farm, A young girl tosses in her bed,...

Here’s something I want you to think about this evening(morning): “What are you doing with your life?”   This is a question I think we all ask ourselves at various points in time. It is the question behind children’s dreams, and stories about what they will do and be...