Heartbreak, Grief, Loss. God Understands

Today’s sermon is called Welcome Home. Craig Barnes is a retired pastor and President of Princeton Seminary, and the author of several books.  One of those books is called Searching for Home.  In that book, Barnes tells his own story of how “home” and “family” are complicated.  When Craig was a teenager, his own father walked […]

For all of the reasons indicated in my introduction it seems like today is a good day to talk a bit about church and think about who we’ve been, who we are, and who we are becoming together here at Knox.  More and more these days, we seem to hear new members and visitors who […]

Over the last several weeks we’ve been talking about prophets in these Sunday morning sermons:  Deborah, Jeremiah, Amos…Jana will continue the series later this month and today we come to Hosea. I like the book of Hosea.  When I first read Hosea, I was moved to discover that God cares about regular human struggles like […]