March 2019

Mark 1:29-39 TRUE STORY: Laugh and the world laughs with you! I was visiting someone in the Tampa General Hospital. Either for the patient’s protection or mine, contact precautions were […]

Mark 1:21-28 Another interruption becomes another teachable moment! Jesus is reading from a scroll in the synagogue. A very sick man exhibits convulsions and shouts at Jesus disrupting the service.

Luke 4:14-30 Jesus’ homecoming in Nazareth had a rather hostile ending. We might remember that he was first greeted as a celebrity, as this hometown boy who was getting rave

Luke 4:1-13 I don’t know about you, but I find myself tempted quite often in life. (Should I say daily? Mountain Dew and Twinkies seem to scream louder than water

John 1:29-42 What nicknames have you been given? What do people call you? What would you ask people to call you? One of the names used for Jesus is “The

Matthew 3:1-13-17, Mark 1:4-11, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Recently I was driving around Winter Haven and a church sign caught my attention. It read: “Come as you are; you can change

John 1: 10-18 As we learned yesterday, John, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth and cousin of Jesus, acquired quite a reputation because not only was he known for his preaching,

Matthew 11:2-11; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-18; John 1:6-8, 19-28 Centuries before there were televangelists, there was John the Baptist! Unlike those who often gained attention for their smartly tailored suits,

Luke 2:41-52 Of the dozens of accounts from the life of Jesus that could have been depicted in stained glass, the small collection of windows in our church’s chapel includes

Luke 2:22-40 Jesus was special to Mary and Joseph. (Aren’t all babies special to their parents?) But there was something more. And the special nature of Jesus was celebrated by