View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 I might as well tell it like it is and let you know that it was the Olympics that inspired my choice of topic for this morning’s sermon. For everything there is a season, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing… There is a lot of embracing going on at the Olympics. The image that most poignantly portrayed for me the power of embrace was…
View Archived Sermons Listen to This Sermon Howling between the lightning, lost in the storm of my endless night, I seek your name oh God! I don’t want your light blinds me in the middle of the horror, because I need light to go on … Is what I have learned from you, not useful to live? I feel that my faith falters, God, that bad people live better than me.. If life is hell and the honest…
See Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon A time to be born and a time to die… July 15, 2012 I have in this bag some potatoes. Actually, they’re really old potatoes, rummaged out from the back recesses of my potato cupboard last weekend. I know you don’t have any like this at your house. They had to finally come out because of a leaky sink – that’s a longer and completely unrelated story. These potatoes were in a paper…
See Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon My newspaper carrier can never deliver my newspaper on time. It’s always late. It’s supposed to be delivered by 6:00 AM, but usually it doesn’t arrive until 6:45 AM at the earliest. On most days, I don’t mind, since I usually don’t leave the house before 7, but on the days when I leave earlier, I find it really annoying. It makes me angry. There – I’ve confessed my anger. I feel…
See Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Sermons in print are only a close approximation of the oral event of the sermon. Enjoy. For everything there is a season, a time for Silence, a time to speak – Most times when I compose my thoughts for a sermon, I try to do so out of a still and quiet place of prayer and with a sermon entitled, a time for silence, I figured…
See Archived Sermons Listen to this Presentation SCOC Dream and Reality Introduction : What’s the name of that song. . . “The times they are a changing. . .” That seems to fit the story of St. Clair/O’Connor Community, also called SCOC. There was a “dream”. A dream of an intergenerational and senior’s facility to be sponsored jointly by Danforth and TUMC congregations. I do not have scripture to support our presentation since I believe Jesus’s ministry…
View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon The Birth of the Church Acts 2:1-21 They were all together, celebrating Pentecost. As a Jewish people, Pentecost was already a festival they knew. It was the feast of 50 days; 50 days following the Passover, and also one of three pilgrimage festivals that brought Jews from all around the Mediterranean back to Jerusalem for the celebration. This festival, like all the others, connected them to their ancient story; the story that…
View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Revised Common Lectionary Readings: Psalm 1, John 17:6-19, 1 John 5:9-13 [Acts 1:15-26] Walter Wink died a week and a half ago. He was a biblical scholar and theologian, and Professor of Biblical Interpretation [at Auburn Theological Seminary] in New York City. He was also an activist, an outspoken leader against the Vietnam war in the 60s, and then in the 80s, with his books banned in South Africa, he managed…
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