by Steve Hedrick | Sep 26, 2011 | Text Sermons
Do you remember Eddie Haskell? For those of you who don’t, he was a character in “Leave it to Beaver,” a popular T.V. show when I was a kid back in the Middle Ages! Eddie was the one who always told the adults what he thought they wanted to hear, in the most...
by Steve Hedrick | Sep 20, 2011 | Text Sermons
Bill Gates is credited with saying to a group of graduating seniors, “Life isn’t fair; get used to it.” And there is certainly some truth in that statement. What is your response to this parable? It doesn’t matter whether you even affirm that life isn’t fair-get used...
by Steve Hedrick | Sep 12, 2011 | Text Sermons
This is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. by Muslim terrorists, a day that every adult and older teenager remembers. Each one of us has etched in his or her memory the pictures all of us saw on television that day, and since...
by Steve Hedrick | Sep 12, 2011 | Text Sermons
In preparing for this sermon this week I ran across another version of today’s gospel reading. See if you recognize it: If thy brother shall trespass against thee, first think to thyself fervently on the trespass until a fire of anger and righteousness is kindled in...
by Steve Hedrick | Aug 29, 2011 | Text Sermons
Thank God for Peter! He is such a source of hope for you and me, and not in the way that we might expect. Peter—the leader of the disciples, the rock upon which Jesus would build his Church, the chief of the apostles, the one to whom the keys to the kingdom of heaven...
by Steve Hedrick | Aug 23, 2011 | Text Sermons
Gandhi said that he did not think Jesus was uniquely divine. I guess that is not unexpected, after all, Gandhi was Hindu and believed that all humanity was divine or at least had divine sparks within. H.G. Wells said that Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant...