The Main Thing

February 01, 2016  ·  Rev. Dr. Jerry Cappel
Ok, folks. Its 1 Corinthians 13 day. The love chapter day. So, it makes sense that we begin with a scene from the movie Wedding Crashers. In this movie from a decade ago, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn play best friends who crash wedding parties as a way to pick up women. They s...
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Jesus at Home

January 03, 2016  ·  Rev. Dr. Jerry Cappel
The Mezuzah is a small case in which a small hand written scroll of parchment (called a klaf) is placed. The scroll contains the wordsof the "Shema Israel" (Deuteronomy 6:4 - 9) passage, in which God commands Jews to keep His words constantly in their minds and in their hearts...
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“Rich, Young and Powerful”

October 11, 2015  ·  The Rev. Dr. Jerry Cappel
Introduction: reflection of wife Jean’s story of a Buddhist hutan refugee family, settinga meeting with her about why the embers of 4th Ave UM are cannibals since they are eating the body and blood of Jesus. That is a great story. Would that we all would be so thrown, so offen...
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