The Clock Is a Recent Invention The clock is a modern tool, and a useful one — it lets us schedule our lives down to the minute, and our machines down to the nanosecond. But it also hands us a more hurried, hectic pace. There is an appointment; we don’t want to be late; we…
Most of the world assumes the answer is no — that things unfold by accident, or that if there is a plan, it is locked away where no one can reach it. Scripture says otherwise. And it says the plan has a center. God “made known to us the mystery of his will according to…
Most of us have been completely disconnected from the bread-making process. We buy bread in a plastic bag. If we bake at home, we buy a packet of dry yeast from the store — a uniform, commercial, predictable powder that activates on demand and does its job without much thought from us. That is not…
This is the second of two sermons I gave in the fall of 2000, at a United Church of God congregation in Cincinnati — about twenty-five years ago, a month after the one on Trumpets. As with the first, I’ve left it close to how it was spoken and cleaned it up only enough to…
This is a sermon I gave in the fall of 2000, at a United Church of God congregation in Cincinnati — about twenty-five years ago. I’ve left it close to how it was spoken and cleaned it up only enough to read smoothly. I see some of it differently now, and I worded parts of…