Sermon – Sunday, 18 April 2021/Rev. Christian M. Wood
Have you all noticed a theme in the readings this Easter season? The lectionary is doing an excellent job of reminding us that Jesus’s mission was to blot out our sins. The challenge we received last week from Fr. Wilson, to live out this Easter season with great...
Sermon – Sunday, 11 April 2021/Rev. David M. Svihel, Dcn.
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” There is a true story about a pastor named Jim. Jim was boarding a plane to fly coast-to-coast and sat next to another man. In response to the obligatory job...
Sermon – Palm Sunday/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
In her all-time number one best-selling single, Tina Turner (THE Tina Turner whose legs are insured by Lloyds of London) asked the most critical question of 1984 – the critical question of all time: “What's love got to do, got to do with it?” Believe it or not, Tina...
Sermon – Sunday, 21 March 2021/Rev. David M. Svihel, Dcn.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 In 1920 the Prohibition movement began in the US. A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. And what was the goal of prohibition? Advocates desired a reduction in substance...
Sermon – Sunday, 14 March 2021/Rev. Christian M. Wood
For many of us, what we heard today is the most familiar part of the Bible. This text is so familiar, partly, because of the Rock ‘n’ Rollin' movement in the 1970s when born-again Christians held up John 3:16 signs at sporting events. I was thinking about putting on a...
Sermon – Sunday, 7 March 2021/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
In what largely strikes the twenty-first century ear as insensitive (even condescending or “negative Nancy”), the sixteenth century Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, began the collect today with these words: “Almighty God, you know that we have no power in...
Sermon – Sunday, 28 February 2021/Rev. David Svihel, Deacon
From today’s Epistle: “Therefore, Abraham’s faith was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Most of us are familiar with the plight of Charlie Brown. Year after year, when football season starts, Charlie Brown asks Lucy to hold the football for him in the hope that he...
Sermon – Ash Wednesday/ 21 February 2021/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
St. Paul writes the Christians in Corinth with these words: “Do not accept the grace of God in vain.” We might phrase it more like this today: “Do not dismiss the grace of God without serious consideration – that is, without thoroughly considering the consequences.”...
Sermon – Sunday, 14 February 2021/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
When was the last time you put your foot in your mouth? It's a great idiom we use to describe situations when we unintentionally say something embarrassing or downright tactless. We've all done it at some point, and some of us seem to be more prone than others. We...