by Mathew Swora | Feb 10, 2015
(A message delivered on Sunday, February 8, 2015) You’re here today for an historic event. Never before have I preached from the Song of Solomon. I wonder if anyone else has from this pulpit. I hope so, but that would be unique throughout our churches. I also wonder...
by Mathew Swora | Feb 3, 2015
Ruth 1: 16: Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 30, 2015
One of my objectives this year (and that of our Worship Commission) is to explore three new sources of worship music, by which I mean “new” to us, personally. Gregorian chant could fit the bill, if we haven’t been exposed to it before. By circumstance, or more likely,...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 21, 2015
I have an email subscription to a daily delivery of quotations from the writings and sermons of Henry Nouwen, a priest, theologian, author and speaker. You can sign up for them too. They come pastor-recommended. Yesterday’s quote still has me in its grip and...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 14, 2015
For as far back as we have sermons and commentaries on today’s Gospel passage, there are at least two things that people have struggled with and found mysterious, even scandalous. First: Why would so many life-long, card-carrying Jews, directly descended from Abraham...
