by Angela Ward | Jan 22, 2020 | Text Sermons
For about five years I’ve had a recurring dream that happens about once a month, and it goes like this. I’m standing in the courtroom at the old courthouse in Linden, Alabama, and I’m being tried for something that isn’t quite clear. The judge presiding in my dream—of...
by Angela Ward | Dec 28, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the fourth century BC, Hippocrates, who is often called the “father of medicine,” said, “For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure are most suitable.” The more modern twist is this: “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Do you remember the...
by Angela Ward | Nov 18, 2019 | News, Text Sermons
In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Fanny Price makes a chilling declaration: “If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.” “The memory,” she says, “is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at...
by Angela Ward | Jun 18, 2019 | Text Sermons
Soon after our Lord’s resurrection, St. Paul wrote a powerful and provocative letter to a growing community of Christians in the City of Rome. In the fifth chapter of his letter to the Romans, he tells them: “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace...
by Angela Ward | May 28, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. My wife, Malacy, has to fly out of state frequently for her work, but occasionally she has to drive over to Miami for a jobsite. And when she does, we swap cars, because mine gets better gas mileage....
