“Staying or Leaving”-August 21-Sermon for August 22

August 21st, 2009 By Father River Sims

Jos. 24:1-2; 15-17, 18; Ps. 34; Eph. 5:21-32; Jn. 6:60-69

In an article posted on the Lutheran Forum Blog on March 14, Pastor Paul Hinlicky expressed his desire for a divorce–not from his wife of 35 years–but from the church over the same sex marriage issue. He said it was church doctrine and could… Continue reading

“Real Happiness”

August 21st, 2009 By Father River Sims

August 20, St. Bernard  Mt. 22:1-14

Today is the feast of Bernard who summed up how to receive real happiness:  “real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining passing pleasures, but in accomplishing God’s will for us.”  For me real happiness is in the moment, it is enjoying the joys… Continue reading