October 31, 2011
Peace United Church of Christ – Greensboro, NC
Humbled and honored
It’s rather humbling to stand in this pulpit where my friend Mel preached.  He served as pastor at Peace Church for more than thirty years.  I am grateful to Jim Luck for welcoming me here today and also for his pastoral care for Mel [...]

Don’t waste your night.
Daniel 5:1-31
October 30, 2011
Spooky story
I didn’t choose Daniel 5 for the Halloween weekend sermon, but if I had been looking for an appropriate Bible story with a strong spook factor, this would have to be it.  The top three stories that come to mind that would be most appropriate for this weekend [...]

I am often amazed and humbled that God has blessed Corinth with staff continuity across the past decade.  We currently employ eleven staff members who have served with us ten or more years:  Bob Thompson (18), Joe Lippard (15), Linda Thompson (14), Laura Owens (14), Sharon Rowe (11), Paul Cummings (11), Bill Howell (11), Jan [...]

Success is humility’s greatest enemy.
Daniel 4:19-27
October 23, 2011
Pride and humility
We come today to the fourth and final of the stories that connect a Jewish man named Daniel to a Babylonian king named Nebuchadnezzar.  We’re not done with Daniel yet – there are more stories about Daniel’s relationship to other kings. 
Daniel 4 has a familiar [...]

“In the end, I won.”
Daniel 3:8-16
October 13, 2011
Remember the Name
At the risk of starting the sermon on a note so depressing that it may be difficult to recover, it’s hard for me not to connect today’s text in Daniel to the Jewish Holocaust.