“Jesus Take the Reel” Easter 3C    John 21:1-19 Delivered to Church for the Highlands The Third Sunday of Easter, April 14, 2013   A guy calls his boss and says “I can’t come to work today The boss asks why and the guy says “It’s my eyes.” “What’s wrong with your eyes?” asks the […]

“Peace In” Delivered to Church for the Highlands Second Sunday of Easter, April 7, 2013   “I am just tired of living.”  That’s what a woman told me this week as we sat on the steps right outside the chapel door.  This comment came after her question to me about suicide.  She wanted to know […]

Easter 2013   Acts 10:34-48 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013 What’s your story?  That’s a question I heard recently in the gymnasium of Centenary College.  No, I wasn’t playing basketball or doing anything physical per se.  I was there for a fundraiser dinner for the school’s Christian Leadership Center. […]

“Palm Sunday 2013” Delivered to Church for the Highlands Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013 Brackets and baskets Who knew Harvard had some jocks? March madness indeed I think it has been at least a year since I’ve given you a Haiku, so there it is.  There’s your year’s worth of my three line creativity.  Inspired […]

“Poor Judas”  John 12:1-8 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, March 17, 2012    Fifth Sunday in Lent Did you see the smoke from this past week?  Perhaps you heard about it, with news quickly expanding all the way from the Vatican.  As the white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, […]

“Jesus Paints God”  Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, March 10, 2013   Millions of people tuned in this past week to watch the History Channel’s new hit TV show, The Bible.  I watched the first episode and learned a lot.  There were no dinosaurs on Noah’s ark, everyone in the […]

“So God Made a Farmer”   Luke 13:1-9 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, March 3, 2013    Third Sunday in Lent   [Dodge Ram Super Bowl Commercial, “So God Made a Farmer” by Paul Harvey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE] If you are old enough to know that voice on the commercial, you needed no announcement of his […]

“God’s Will . . . Our Desire”   Luke: 13:31-35 by Maegan Daigle, Associate Director of the Christian Leadership Center of Centenary College as a part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Martha Stearns Marshall, Women in Preaching emphasis At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to […]

“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You . . .”    Luke 4:1-13 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, February 17, 2013   It is all over the airwaves and the commercials.  It has come from the mouth of Marines, guys at the gym, physical therapists, and Kelly Clarkson.  It is the phrase, “What doesn’t […]

Ash Wednesday Meditation Delivered to Church for the Highlands Wednesday, February 13, 2013 The news on Monday that the Pope was resigning came as an unsettling surprise to the world. It turns out that no one was around the last time this happened, 600 years ago. Popes since then have stayed until death. Pope Benedict […]