A Noble Theme

Hespeler, 28, July 2019 © Scott McAndless Genesis 18:20-32, Psalm 138, Colossians 2:6-15, Luke 11:1-13 Y ou have heard that somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, stretching, in fact, much of the way between California and Japan, there is a massive patch of floating plastic that does nothing but grow every year. Fish, birds, whales and dolphins have floated in with their stomachs full of the stuff and having choked to death on it.       You know that plastic, a lot of it, will hang around in landfills, dumps and in the food chain for hundreds if not thousands of years. And you have also recently heard that, for all the hoopla over recycling, most recycling programs for things like plastic bags have been complete failures and that these days, the Asian countries that we had been shipping used p lastics to have started to refuse to even receive them.       You know all of that, all of the problems associated with single-use plastic

This sermon is also an episode of the Retelling the Bible Podcast. You can listen to the episode here: And find out more about the episode and podcast here:  Retellingthebible.wordpress.com/ Hespeler, 21 July, 2019 © Scott McAndless Genesis 18:1-10, Psalm 15:1-5, Colossians 1:15-27, Luke 10:38-42 V ery early that morning – before the sun had peeked over the hills – Mary had been awakened from a very deep slumber by her older sister. “Mary, Mary,” Martha called to her, “something exciting is going to happen today. I just know it – something that will change everything. Do you know that man – the one from Nazareth that everyone has been talking about – he and his followers have been travelling all over Galilee preaching and healing and telling stories. Well, I heard the people in marketplace talking yesterday and it seems that he is coming here to our village and that he is going to come today. Do you know what that means?”       Mary, who was sti ll more t

Hespeler, 7 July, 2019 © Scott McAndless 2 Kings 5:1-14, Psalm 30, Galatians 7-16, Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 W hat would you do to be healthy? What would you do to be whole? It is a question that a lot of us don’t really ask ourselves, I think. We don’t ask it because we think we know the answer. We assume that health is the highest priority and that we would do whatever it took to obtain it or maintain it. We would do whatever the doctor said, take whatever was prescribed and make any changes necessary. In theory, it is a question that doesn’t even need to be asked. But that is theory, real life tends to be a little bit different.       Do you remember that classic rock song by Meatloaf: “I would do anything for love ” ? In the song, Meatloaf runs through a number of things that he would do for the sake of the person he loves. He even says, “I’d run right into hell and back.” But the refrain of the song is, “but I won’t do that,” reminding us that absolute words