17th Sunday After Pentecost, October 1, 2006 Mark 9:38-50, Walter W. Harms STAYING IN THE CIRCLE My father who was a pastor, as I am, told this story about a guided tour of heaven. As the guide and his group approached a certain section of heaven, the guide put his finger to his lips asking…
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Pentecost 11 (August 20, 2006) A Sermon based on John 6:51-58 by Walter W. Harms TO BE OR NOT TO BE To live — what does that mean? We have come to an age when we think we almost know what it means to live. We perhaps more certainly know what it means not to…
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Epiphany 2, January 15, 2006 John 1:43-51, Walter W. Harms WHAT IT MEANS: TO FOLLOW JESUS What do you know about Jesus? (Ask for responses from audience.) Good answers! Some of them better than I expected! Good for you! From your answers it would appear that there is little more for some of us to…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 7, 2006 John 10:11-18 (RCL), Walter W. Harms THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEEP (Youth Confirmation Sunday) 11 [Jesus said :] „I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he…
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Lent 5, April 2, 2006 A sermon based on John 12:20-33 (RCL) by Walter W. Harms 20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. „Sir,“ they said, „we would like to see Jesus.“…
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Second Sunday of Advent, 10 December 2006 Luke 3:1-6, Walter W. Harms WE NEED TO CHANGE? We are in the sixth year of the presidency of George W. Bush. We are in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. American military personnel are in over 30 countries of the world. America believes, right or wrong, that its…
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The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, 21 January 2007 Luke 4:14-21 , Walter W. Harms WITH JESUS, TIMES HAVE CHANGED: HAVE YOU? I like to ask people what is the oldest “thing” in their home. While recognizing that everything in the home has always been, since the creation, I am looking for that which has…
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Ash Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21, Walter Harms A LOOK AT OUR PIETY Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a 40 day time span that ends on the eve of our Lord’s resurrection from the dead. The “ash” of Ash Wednesday implies something destroyed, demolished, gone. Not only destroyed are the palms of…
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