Rev. Jim Short

If you’ve ever had to say a permanent goodbye to someone you know how hard and emotional that is. Today’s Gospel is small part of what the write of John calls “The Farewell Discourses” . Jesus begins this conversation with his disciples at the Passover Supper before he is crucified. He upends tradition as he…

This week in the post Easter season we meet Peter and the disciples by the lake of Galilee. After all the trauma and change of events that led to the cross and resurrection they’ve gone home. Its what’s you do hopefully when life falls apart. What were they thinking? How were they feeling? Wondering what…

Anyone familiar with this time of year – Holy Week knows that it always begins with Palm Sunday.  As tradition dictates, we usually have some form of palm parade.  Not this year, thought.  Reading from Luke’s gospel, there are no palms in the parade.  So, it’s an Un Palm Sunday.  Instead, the disciples and people welcoming Jesus threw their…

This week’s lesson – the Parable of the Prodigal Son…or sons – or maybe even the Father who does not seem to act like a stern patriarch of a family in Jesus’ day.  To unpack the power of the parable and the power in which Jesus uses it we need to understand something of ancient…

Rev. Jim’s sermon for the third Sunday in the season of Lent is based on Isaiah 55, a text in which the prophet gives away food and drink to everyone who is “hungry and thirsty.” The focus is on grace, that free gift of God that rejects profitability, and makes space for healing. After catching…

This morning, Rev. Jim was preaching on Mark 9:38-50. Mark ends Jesus’ time teaching his disciples in Galilee with some strong and stern words. Cutting off pieces of the body if they sin should (thankfully) not be taken literally! Jesus is saying, “Pay attention! This is very important!” Like us, the disciples struggle to hear…

This was another sermon from the Rev. Jim Short, reflecting on Psalm 130 and Ephesians 4:25-5:2. The audio version may not do it justice, because Jim did one of his “many chairs” extravaganza sermons. The basic question is “How does God see us?”

The Rev. Jim Short preached at Crossroads this morning, and his texts were Psalm 145 and John 6:1-21. He asks, “Does reading our Bible give you that ‘loaves and fishes’ kind of feeling? What does reading the Bible do for you? Is it like stone soup without the extras?”

The Rev. Jim Short preached at Crossroads this morning, and his texts were Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 and Psalm 23. Jim looks way back in history and asks, “How and where, after the Emperor Constantine was baptized and Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, did we lose our way?” Buckle up for a…