let it be so
a sermon for good friday Truthfully, it never ceases to amaze me that y’all show up… I’m always surprised because, honestly, we live in a frenzied world. With all that is on everyone’s plates these days, I am surprised that on a Friday evening, you’d drop everything you already have going on to come here … Surely there is no shortage of tasks clamoring for your attention: what with cleaning, bills, the Easter meal to prepare, and so on. Isn’t there already enough to do without coming to church on Friday Evening? Sadly, though, it isn’t just how full our plates are, that makes your presence here a surprise… The real reason I’m always surprised by your presence, honestly, is that we live in a skeptical world… And who can blame the skeptics, after all? What, with racially charged shootings in Kansas, the violent crimes that have happened here lately, the Ferry sinking in South Korea, the long winter, and that’s not to mention the personal calamities we each k...