It’s Time to Start Over . . . a sermon planned for the Palisades Community Church on January 13, 2019 but unable to be given due to snow. Begin by reading Mark 1:9-11 Anyone here on the second Sunday of January already in need of a new start? You thought you’d stop eating so many …
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Where Do You Belong?
Where do you belong? To whom to you belong? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week realizing that . . . Most of our definitions of what it means to belong comes with constraints like rules and regulations. If you want to belong to a gym, you’ve got to pay a monthly fee …
It’s Time to Wake Up
It’s Time to Wake Up . . my first sermon preached at The Palisades Community Church on Romans 13:11-14 There’s something about the pace of the summer that gives us all an excuse to slow down. We disappear at our favorite vacation spot for as long as our budge allows. We don’t answer emails right …
It’s Time to Break-Up
A sermon preached on Acts 15:36-41 at University Christian Church, Hyattsville, MD We love reading, watching or singing along to love stories, don’t we? Maybe this is this why our reality show line up is full of finding love elements of their programing… Big Brother, 90 Day Fiancé, Married by Mom and Dad, Say Yes …
How Will You Live Out Martin Luther King’s Legacy?
A Sermon Preached on Martin Luther King weekend at Laurel Presbyterian Church “When Jesus Makes Us Uncomfortable” from John 2:13-25 I can remember the first-time church going to church troubled me. It was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, 2002. I was set to graduate college in a few short weeks. I was open to visiting a …
Be the One Who Says Thank You
There are two words that are never going out of style in the English language. THANK YOU. But we aren’t a culture that is really very good at thank you’s are we? How often are feelings hurt because someone forgot to say it, One of my favorite gospel stories on the topic of saying “Thank …
Lessons from Jesus, Age 12
Excerpts from a sermon preached at Broadneck Baptist Church, Annapolis, MD from Luke 2:41-52 I don’t know if you’ve participated in the social media craze called, #TBT (Throw Back Thursday) when folks post pictures of themselves from years ago on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Though some simply post pictures from last Christmas or a fun …
A Good Death?
A Sermon Preached at The Federated Church, Weatherford, OK on Isaiah 6:1-8 It’s strange to put the words “good” and “death” in the same phrase as I’m doing with the sermon title isn’t it? Because when we think death, we think grief, sadness, loss, and weeping. And if we’re from the church, when I say death, …
God, What Were You Thinking?
Today, I have one question: God, really what were you thinking hanging all of the hopes of the world on one birth and one night? If you and I have any logical sense, hanging all ours hopes in life on everything aligning correctly as God did at Christmas Eve was a pretty stupid thing to …
Need a Superhero?
God Sent Me Before You: Genesis 45:1-15 Sermon Preached at Idlywood Presbyterian Church, Falls Church, VA It is so easy look out on the world with a lens of two categories in which to place people: heroes and villains. Maybe this is indeed why the movies with the highest gross sales this summer (or anytime of …
When You’ve Royally Screwed Up: Then What?
Besides the common saying that “there are two things that you can be certain of ” (Do you know what they are?) DEATH and TAXES, I would add two more things. You can be certain that human beings will do stupid things from time to time and also not want to admit that they’ve done …
Imagine a New World: Pentecost
“Imaging a New World” Sermon Preached at Riverdale Presbyterian Church, Hyattsville, MD Acts 2:1-21 with Genesis 11:1-9 Can you remember the last time or anytime you were in an environment where you spoke a different language than everyone else? It could have been on an international trip either to the US for the first time …
