At a wedding rehearsal, the minister told the father of the bride, "As you give your daughter's hand to the bridegroom, you should say something nice to him." The father, a grocery-store manager, took the advice. During the wedding ceremony, he placed the bride's hand on his son-in-law's arm and said,…

This is one of those glorious Sundays in which we as a congregation celebrate both the Sacrament of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper on the same Sunday. However, the down side is the time available for my sermon very limited. Rather than treating this as a liability, I am going to treat it as an opportunity…