Year: 2002

Scriptures: Psalms I had meant, in my last sermon, two weeks ago, to say something about enemies. I had started out with the thought of focusing on the verse from Psalm 23 about preparing a table “in the presence of my enemies”, I meant to say something about that then, but ran out of time … Read more

Scripture: Psalm 91 One way I have of thinking about what faith is, what faith is to me, is to think of it as the “nevertheless” part of my life. In a way, my whole life is built upon, depends on that “nevertheless”. Here are some faith statements in my own words: I look at … Read more

DANCE! Sermon for Glade Church Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-24; Psalm 146; Luke 9:57-62 You know sometimes strange things pop into your head.  I was trying to think what I was going to call this sermon—this was earlier in the week and I already had some ideas about what I wanted to say, but I was still … Read more

Scriptures: Psalm 27; Psalm 51; Matthew 5:1-10 I’m going to be talking this morning about some things that have been on my mind, but I have to tell you, have to warn you, that there’s a real good chance that none of the rest of you have been thinking about the same things I’ve been … Read more

Part One of Sermon for August 25, 2002 Scripture: Psalm 10 There is actually a rather direct connection between the subject matter of today’s service and what I was reflecting on in the sermon last week.  I wish I could say that this is a result of careful planning, but it wasn’t.  It just sort … Read more

Scriptures: Romans 12:9-21 and Matthew 16:21-28 Let me begin this morning with just a few words about the process of preaching which may or may not be of the slightest interest to you, but which I feel the need to say anyway. For the two and a half years that I have been preaching at … Read more

Scripture: Romans 13:8-12 The curriculum we’ve been talking about this morning has all sorts of things in it. Among the items that happen to be included in the material for the first few weeks is a definition of the word “sermon”, which it says comes from Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition. It says … Read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:1-11 I haven’t preached in a while, and I’m not going to preach too much today, since we have other things to do and we need to allow ourselves time to do them. But I do feel the need to preach a little bit, not because I’m addicted to it and can’t go … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:33-46 Today is World Communion Sunday, and as I think about World Communion, I am humbled. World Communion began back in the 1930’s when the Presbyterians set aside a day when they encouraged all their churches to express their underlying unity by observing communion on a certain Sunday, symbolically coming to the communion … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:1-14 I’m going to start this morning by repeating myself, although for most of you it will seem more like I’m repeating myself when you read the newsletter. When you get around to this month’s newsletter, you will find out that I have been thinking recently about “coming out”, and I’m still in … Read more