SERMON Lent 3b 2018 Billy Graham and Evangelicals By Pastor Leo E. Longan I think you all must know by now that Billy Graham died last week. Do I need to tell anybody who he was? Billy Graham was a Christian evangelist, a Southern Read More …
SERMON Lent 1B 2018 Mark: Temptation of Jesus/Rimbo Resignation By Pastor Leo E. Longan Do you know where you were baptized? And when? The date, the town, the church or maybe at home, some of you. The name of the pastor? I had to look Read More …
SERMON Transfiguration 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan We have been together a long time, long enough for you to have discovered that I’m not much of a sports fan. But as someone who lived in Philadelphia for several years long ago – and loved Read More …
SERMON Epiphany 5b 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Annual Meeting: the Mirror and the Miracle Today as we gather to do the work of this community in our annual meeting of the congregation, perhaps a little back-to-basics is in order, starting with this Read More …
SERMON Epiphany 4b 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Germans are very creative people, and that is nowhere more apparent than in the way they use their language. Germans love to make up words, and they have come up with some doozies. I found one Read More …
SERMON Epiphany 2b 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Martin Luther King In our lessons today, we hear about God’s call of the boy Samuel to serve him as a prophet, and Jesus’ call of Philip and Nathaniel to be disciples. It is, therefore, a very Read More …
SERMON Lectionary 32a 2017 By Pastor Leo E. Longan “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” These words of the prophet Amos, the earliest of the many preachers who warned against the coming destruction of his country, ring down the Read More …
SERMON All Saints 2017 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Today of all days in the calendar is OUR day, a day to celebrate who WE are. Every day in the church year is FOR us, but today is ABOUT us. By US, of course, I mean Read More …
SERMON Lectionary 27a 2017 By Pastor Leo E. Longan The Wicked Tenants Today Jesus offers what is possibly his most political parable ever, and you will be relieved to hear that it is not the politics of our present congress and administration that Jesus speaks of, Read More …