Read a new sermon each week from one of our Traditional Services.
What Comes as Standard Equipment for Anyone Calling Themselves a Christian? As you know, today is Trinity Sunday. And since my husband and I recently got a new car and I’ve been trying to read the manual, I’d like us to consider what safety features come as standard equipment in the most basic model. Not…
The first half of today’s sermon was delivered as an oral narrative from the sanctuary floor and is identified by bold-italic text. The remaining traditional sermon comments are in regular print. When the day came, I found myself surrounded by lots of people. I heard languages that I could not understand. I heard Spanish being…
Copied here is a combined sermon from traditional worship on May 19, 2019 — Confirmation Sunday. Sections addressing each confirmand from the 8AM and 10:45 services that morning are combined within the sermon structure and theme here. Robert Fulghum, has written eight best-selling books, although he is most famous for his first best-seller, All I…
TRADITIONAL SERMON — EASTER 2 Words have power. Even in a world like ours where words are vomited across every single communication platform that exists in far greater volume than ever before. Amazingly, our regular misuse of our words has not diminished their inherent potency. If I say something like “TOM!” … I immediately have…
TRADITIONAL SERMON Easter Sunday Darkness and light … it is a rhythm that has always stood at the center of this story. Energy … that we cannot begin to comprehend, fuels the event. Theories, questions and conclusions have arisen around it, even though none of us have ever seen it with our own eyes. And…
We are very familiar with the scene and the characters in today’s gospel. We think we know them. There is much that has been said regarding them. But, none of the details in the story irrefutably support the theories.Theories that have long been perpetuated about who, where and when this scene takes place. Therefore, I…
Today’s readings once again contrast the realm of humans with the realm of God. They contrast our perspective with God’s, help us see God in everyday circumstances and to discover the many ways that Grace shows up.
I’ve never been in a true wilderness. I’ve come close, I suppose. When I was a student at Furman University in South Carolina back in the 70’s, there were places in neighboring Pickens County that were pretty remote and where people were few and far between. Nature … and home-made moonshine stills … ruled the…
