Sermons

SCIENTISTS FIND UNIVERSE AWASH IN TINY DIAMONDS*[By Mayne Ellis]But haven’t we always known?The shimmer of trees, the shaking of flamesevery cloud lined with somethingclean water singsright to the bellyscouring us with its purityit too is awash with diamonds“so small that trillions could reston the head of a pin”It is not unwise then to saythat the … read

Patsy Mitchner, a former slave from the time when our country participated in that evil institution, looked back on those years after the Civil War and commented, “Slavery was a bad thing, and freedom, of the kind we got, with nothing to live on, was bad. Two snakes full of poison. One lying with his … read

Let us pray. O Christ, our familiar stranger, you meet us on our way, and will not let us go. As we listen to your incredible tale this morning, Give us your deepest blessing, so that, washed in hope and grace, We may lose our fear, and be a church that lives by your love, … read

We’ve spent this Lenten season looking at some bits of the letters of the apostle Paul, and I must commend you all for hanging in there with the apostle. Paul is rarely easy; if anything, his brilliance and his zealousness for Christ are hard to translate into our post-modern days. Paul can be pretty black … read

Every once in a while I wish I could go back in time and visit this congregation in Corinth, because reading between the lines of Paul’s letters, I sense a quirky, opinionated, faithful, fallible group of people who were trying to follow Jesus and not doing a very good job of it. Oh, to have … read

Maybe you all had a similar experience to mine. When I was younger, often when I’d leave the house for one reason or another, my mother would call out, “Remember who you’re representing!” I’m not sure if she meant that as a joke or a warning, but either way the implication was the same: the … read