by Steve Hedrick | Feb 6, 2012 | Text Sermons
Some years ago I had the frightening and sobering experience of being in an automobile accident. While on vacation, driving in the town I grew up in, Derby, Connecticut, I was negotiating an intersection of two multilane roads. I entered the intersection on a green...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 25, 2012 | Text Sermons
If you were to define what makes a person a Christian, what would you say? It is interesting for us today that the Old Testament reading from Jonah and the Gospel reading both offer us contemporary views of what people think of what Christianity is. In the first we...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 9, 2012 | Text Sermons
A small Texas town was having a big problem with pesky squirrels. The three churches in town, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal, were especially affected with these squirrels, so much so that it was an item of business in all three church councils. The...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 9, 2012 | Text Sermons
There is a famous painting that I have seen in various places and books relating to the Civil War. It depicts a Union general, Philip Sheridan, mounted on his great black horse, Rienzi, in the midst of the chaos of battle. The horse is literally airborne –...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 4, 2012 | Text Sermons
What’s in a name? My nephew Matt and his darling wife Laura were in a hospital as I wrote this sermon, giving birth to their first child – actually Laura really did all the work – I am not sure what Matt did; he was there and remained conscious through the...
by Steve Hedrick | Dec 27, 2011 | Text Sermons
Unless, as the song goes, your true love gives you gifts on each of the twelve days of Christmas, most likely your gift-giving and receiving will take place today, Christmas Day, the day of the Nativity of our Lord. Through gifts we often are given precious memories...
