Author name: Janet Bauman

How Will I Know? Why Me? Luke 1:26-38 Luke 1:26-38 Introduction: Mary Who? There are so many paintings, sculptures, icons, tapestries and stained glass windows of this scene in which Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel. Mary’s prophetic song of praise, the Magnificat, which we heard in that last song, has been

Genesis 39, 41 I’m not much for theme park rides. I’m definitely not a fan of rides that spin, or swing back and forth. Those are likely to induce nausea pretty quickly. But I have been known to ride a roller coaster now and then, and even enjoy it. There is something fun

Genesis 17:1-8; 15-19; 18:1-15; 21:1-7 When my first child was born a friend sent me this excerpt from a William Wordsworth poem to mark the occasion: Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,Hath had elsewhere its settingAnd cometh from afar;Not in entire forgetfulness,And

Introduction We have a fridge magnet with this question on it: “is it stomach, mouth or heart hunger?” It came from a workshop on healthy eating, and it’s meant to make us pause long enough to reconsider  mindlessly grabbing something to eat from the fridge or the pantry. Is it stomach, mouth, or

Ephesians 3:14-21 Go into any book story, or dive into an online search, and you will find all kinds of self-help books, memoirs, websites, blogs, Ted talks and more, all on the topic of spirituality. You could dive down any number of rabbit holes about how to pray, how to meditate, different sacred