“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”

Flip-Flopping: A Christian Virtue

I’m still confused as to why “flip-flopping,” or the act of changing one’s mind, is such a big deal in American politics.  First it was John Kerry in 2004 who was accused of changing his mind (you remember, “I was for the war before I was against it,” and so on); now it’s GOP front-runnerContinue reading “Flip-Flopping: A Christian Virtue”