Lloyd Menke By I, Daniel Csörföly (from Budapest, Hungary), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3111920 What do you think of when you think of freedom? Most people in the US think of personal autonomy. I have the freedom to do what I want – the freedom to choose.  Or they think about liberty. The benefits we have […]

    Rembrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Bible passage for this sermon is Genesis 32:22-31 and 2 Timothy 3:14 – 4:5  can found here: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=343661849 As a parent have you ever found yourself stepping in to keep your child from being hurt?  (There is a fun and humorous YouTube compilation of dad saves you may want to check […]

JESUS MAFA. Healing of the ten lepers, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, Tenn. The Scripture for this sermon Luke 17:11-19 can be found here: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=343238240 How do you see the events that happen in life?  I was intrigued by something I heard on the radio last […]

Pastor Lloyd Menke By Novalis at en.wikipedia (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons Luke 17:5-10  (Scripture for this sermon can be found here: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=342457727) Have you every had one of those “Oh God!” moments?  I’m not talking about moments of awe, like when you are in the wilderness with no lights […]