CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. As we enter into this Advent season I am acutely aware that December can be a very dark time for some. Those of us in the so-called helping professions know that the […]
“Be the Change” – November 13, 2022 (audio, video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. John Murray began his early career in the early 1700s as an Anglican priest in England. An avid reader, and critical thinker Murray was greatly influenced by his first wife who believed […]
“Whose Are We? To Whom Do We Belong?” – September 25, 2022 (audio, video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the story Tico and the Golden Wings, the famed children’s author Leo Lonini tells of Tico, a bird born without wings. As is true of so many who are different, Tico […]
“We Become More” – April 25, 2021 (video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I imagine that most of us didn’t expect our life to turn out the way it did. Mine didn’t. When I was teenager I thought I wanted to be an airline pilot, you know see the world, make a […]
“We Become” – April 4, 2021 (PDF available)
CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Roberta Bondi teaches church history at Candler Theological School at Emery University in Atlanta. In the midst of the mass shooting of Asian American spa workers in Atlanta, she speaks of what our perceived differences can mean in a time such as this. What we become […]
“Whispers of the Spirit” – October 11, 2020 (video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It’s hard to imagine a year that compares to 2020 as the most difficult in our lives. For me, 1987 is a close second. Francis and I had just moved from a cold and forbidding life in upstate New […]
“Which Mary?” – May 10, 2020 (video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In Susan Monk Kid’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the heroine, a girl named Lily, loses her mother and attempts to escape the brutality of her father. Lily is raised by Rosaleen, her proud and outspoken African-American nanny. […]
“Crossing the Threshold” – May 3, 2020 (video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic that I want to talk about crossing a threshold when we are mostly sequestered in our homes, decidedly on just one side of the threshold. When I tell people I am the Senior Minister […]
“We Are All Doing Time” – April 26, 2020 (video and PDF available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the small East Texas Town of Slone, Travis Boyete, abducted, raped and murdered a popular cheerleader. He buried her body so deep no one would find it. He watched in amazement as police prosecuted and convicted Donte Drumm, […]
A Farther Vision – September 9, 2018 (Homecoming) (video available)
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon It is so good to see you all here again. I want to thank our amazing worship associates for leading outstanding worship for us this long hot summer. How many of you made it to a summer service? Let’s give our WA’s a round of applause! One of […]
