RoboPreacher

the bars from heaven's high portals fell A sermon on Peter's sermon in action : The last time we had this passage was four years ago. Does anyone remember what life was like four years ago? Do you remember the year 2020 ? Do you want to? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, back in 2020 , when the Novel Coronavirus had brought the world to a halt , this passage practically preached itself ! Suddenly, it wasn’t so hard for mobile , can- do people like us to relate to the man crippled from birth. Was it? We knew what it was like not to be able to enter the temple. Didn’t we? Now, though, we’re back to business as usual. Nothing is stopping us from going where we want when we want. Unsurprisingly , this passage has now become a little more difficult for us to relate to. Suddenly, this episode has become foreign and inapplicable to us .   In fact, I suspect if we have any point of contact with today’s Scripture, it’s not the man crippled from birth. Is it? No, now we’re relating to P...

& the loser is the last to ask for help The holy scripture from the book of Acts ! Well, it doesn’t take too much to connect to this Bible story, either . Does it? Here’s a man whose ailment keeps him from entering the temple. Sound familiar? And yes, we’re trying to be preventative , but the situation isn’t all that different. Whether we have it or not, an ailment is keeping us all from entering the house of God these days. We know what it’s like to be the man in today’s scripture… But, we are a DIY people, a people who prefer to do it ourselves . We like to stand on our own two feet and pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. But all this novel coronavirus stuff is calling all that up short .   In fact, as our bishop put it, “viruses don’t move. People move.” In other words, what’s proliferating this disease is our own two feet!   Our compulsion to try and eke out our own existence, is the very thing that’s menacing it!   T...