by Steve Hedrick | Nov 15, 2011 | Text Sermons
This (a New Testament with a metal cover that says: May this keep you from harm) is something carried by one of my heroes. He wasn’t always a hero – it was not until later in life that I recognized what a hero he was. Who is your hero? This question was raised...
by Steve Hedrick | Nov 7, 2011 | Text Sermons
I think it was some time back in the early 60s when the new indoor shopping mall opened in my home town of Columbus, Ohio. All of the big department stores had opened branch stores at the mall, and of course people wondered if the new mall would hurt business...
by Steve Hedrick | Oct 24, 2011 | Text Sermons
Now, I am not much of a boxer. The two times I was coerced into the ring as a kid turned into an unmitigated brawl – I fought, not boxed. But the YMCA we used to go to as kids had guys who were boxers. They were tough graceful, agile, quick. As the boxers...
by Steve Hedrick | Oct 17, 2011 | Text Sermons
Last week I attended the Anglo-Catholic Rectors’ Conference, which was held this year in Raleigh, North Carolina. I wore my clericals to and from the conference, and on the way back, going through security, one of the guards asked me a question since he could tell I...
by Steve Hedrick | Oct 12, 2011 | Text Sermons
“Fall flat on his face,” “a man after his own heart,” “pride goes before a fall,” like a lamb to the slaughter,” “sour grapes,” “the salt of the earth,” “give up the ghost,” “the powers that be,” “a thorn in the flesh.” What do these well-known phrases, phrases known...
by Steve Hedrick | Oct 4, 2011 | Text Sermons
Do you love surprise endings? Do you remember the Ransom of Red Chief? The little boy gets kidnapped and what you expect doesn’t happen at all because at the end of the story, the kidnappers ended paying the dad to take his own little boy back. Or how about The Sixth...
