“Back to Basics”: A Sermon for Lent

Text: Mark 7:1-16 I. Most of you have heard about the tragedy that occurred last month in Afghanistan.  U.S. security forces found POW Qurans containing hand-written subversive messages, so they confiscated them and burned them. Whether the burning was intentional or not has yet to be determined, but the “defiling” of Islam’s sacred text createdContinue reading ““Back to Basics”: A Sermon for Lent”

Celebrating Adoniram Judson and 200 years of Christian missions

This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the commissioning of North America’s first missionary, Adoniram Judson, and his wife, Abigail.  Although they intended to go to India, the Judsons had to venture to Burma (Myanmar) instead.  There, he put the language into writing, translated the Bible, printed tracts, and preached the Gospel to thousands of would-beContinue reading “Celebrating Adoniram Judson and 200 years of Christian missions”