The Basin and Towel
Pastors and other church workers need support from a number of sources. From practical tips to spiritual insights, we hope you’ll find something on The Basin and Towel podcast to encourage you to think a little deeper about a variety of ministry-related topics. Your host is Pastor Chris Cahill of Lodi, Ohio, who brings to the table more than 40 years of ministry experience and 20 years of caring for pastors and church workers. Episodes are archived after 90 days. For a list of archived episodes, visit our website at www.basinandtowel.org.
The Basin and Towel
"Signs and Wonders!" sermon for November 16, 2025 at Resurrection Lutheran Church, Malvern OH
Welcome back to the Basin and Towel podcast! I’m your host, Chris Cahill. I live in Lodi, Ohio, where I recently retired from 45 years of pastoral ministry in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. I may be retired, but I’ve been doing some substitute preaching in other churches - this episode is the sermon I preached on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Malvern, Ohio.
These recordings may not be uniform in quality because the acoustics and audio systems in the churches will not be uniform, but I’m game if you are.
For churches and denominations that follow a “church year calendar,” the new church year begins soon after Thanksgiving. That means that in November, we’re getting close to the end of the year! The focus on the assigned Scripture readings for the month is the end of time itself, when Jesus will return in glory to bring this current creation to an end and usher in the New Creation promised in the book of Revelation.
Whenever Jesus talks about that coming time, it always seems like something dreadful - in fact, in chapter 21 of Luke’s Gospel it seems like Jesus gives his disciples a big bullet list of things to be afraid of. But along with that list, He tells them and us what He himself will do for us, and He coaches us on what we can do to face that time with faith instead of fear.
You can read Luke 21:5-36 HERE>>
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