by Steve Hedrick | May 1, 2017 | Text Sermons
I heard a story about a soldier in airborne training: that’s where a soldier becomes convinced that it’s okay to jump out of a perfectly good airplane with a parachute. Prior to loading up the airplane for the jump, his sergeant barked out orders: -follow standard...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 23, 2017 | Text Sermons
Our culture bombards us with myriad assertions that yearn to shape our lives. Be what you want to be. Whatever you want, you deserve it. If you want it, it’s your right. If it feels good do it. Failure is not an option, so I have the right to succeed. You are the boss...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 6, 2017 | Text Sermons
About a week and a half ago I began working on my sermon for this Sunday using the texts assigned for the fifth Sunday after Epiphany. I was then informed by my fellow clergy, that those were the wrong texts, and we were going to celebrate Candlemas on this Sunday....
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 4, 2017 | Text Sermons
Well, here it is New Year’s Day, and most of us have made or will make New Year’s resolutions; we express an intention to make a positive change in our lives this year–mostly having to do with food, caloric intake, and exercise is my bet. But I bet no-one has...
by Steve Hedrick | Nov 14, 2016 | Text Sermons
I’ve been re-reading J.R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy recently. It has been about 30 years since I read that great fantasy epic. So I have been re-introduced to hobbits, dwarfs, elves, orcs, Nazguls, and other strange critters, and their great adventure to...
