2015-05

This is the talk from Sunday, May 24, just after a huge deluge hit Wimberley with record flooding and power outages. The lights came back on just in time for services:

Abraham and Sarah, an elderly couple with no children, decide to use a servant girl to start a family. Then – surprise! – they have a child of their own. Can this be anything but trouble?

Two parents, two sons and a murder. The original dysfunctional family. 

We pray, we affirm, we visualize, we set intentions, and sometimes we outright beg. What does it mean when prayer just doesn’t seem to work?