Sermons sprout from the fertile soil of life in God's magnificent and messy church. They also grow in the midst of busy and sometimes hectic pastoral ministry. As someone else has said, "Sunday comes every three days." And as I believe Union Presbyterian Seminary President T. Hartley Hall IV once described it, "The relentless return of Sunday."The sermons included here are, with only a few modifications, what I preached to my congregation. I've tried to preach with one eye zeroed in on the Bible with all its complexities, puzzlements, and wonders, and with one eye scanning what's happening in the world, the world that God loves and is involved with, the world God will never abandon, the world that God will finally make whole.