Let’s see … time before last I tried to evaluate Jesus’ most basic teachings, last time I wondered if the universe has a purpose. So this week, I thought I’d talk about death. Maybe I should come up with some less-heavy topic for the Sunday after next, when we will have visitors from the other [...]
Let’s see … time before last I tried to evaluate Jesus’ most basic teachings, last time I wondered if the universe has a purpose. So this week, I thought I’d talk about death. Maybe I should come up with some less-heavy topic for the Sunday after next, when we will have visitors from the other [...]
A number of events conspired to lead me to this morning’s sermon topic, existentialism. One church member, Steve Kaye, forwarded me a fine article by Professor Robert Solomon, “Pessimism vs. Existentialism,” that makes the case that far from being pessimistic, as it is often portrayed, existentialism is quite the opposite. By the way, the French [...]
One could argue, it isn’t right for me to give a sermon about Jesus at Christmas time after having not paid more attention to him in the rest of the year. I disagree.
It’s like the intellectual quandary faced by the Puritans who gathered this congregation back in the seventeenth century. Their strict Calvinist theology told [...]