What I wanted to say

but ran out of time this Sunday

Here is the benediction I was going to use before discovering the excellent MLK Jr. video. 

The Storm that Comes To Us as Helplessness

I want to share with you a small portion of my conversation with Artificial Intelligence online.  Some of you know, I use Chat-GPT as a thoughtful sounding board for the questions and insights I’m working with on whatever scriptures I’m studying each week.  What follows is an example of those discussions...

One Final Scene About Scrooge

There was one more scene in Dickens’s novel that reveals something of what has happened to Scrooge over the years.  I did not have time to share it on Sunday, but I believe it reveals a great deal about the regrets in Scrooge’s life....

What Jacob Marley Would Do,

If He Could Do It…

         I thought about using the following for a benediction—since Jacob Marley was warning Scrooge about the danger of loving money and what it could buy.  Ends up with the Cantata and everything else going on, I didn’t have the time.  So here is what you might have heard if the sermon itself was 5 minutes shorter!

A Confirming Word on Old King Herod

          I just want to echo what Rick said in his fine sermon yesterday (Nov. 23).  Herod was a ruthless tyrant and skilled politician.  When the Magi don’t report back to him, he decides to kill all the male children of Bethlehem under the age of 2.  That’s one paranoid dude.