sermons Powerful Awe | Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020 5 Apr 20202 Apr 2020 Recently, a headline appeared in my newsfeed: “How Beauty is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution.” The tag line explained, “The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can’t be explained by natural…
sermons The Fertile Soil of Doubt 29 Mar 202026 Mar 2020 It’s the question all teenagers dread as they come home. I certainly heard my fair share of it, especially before the advent of cell phones. If the bus got in…
sermons Yet, I am not Silenced! | March 22, 2020 22 Mar 202022 Mar 2020 The darkness settled in. All around, snow fell, in an increasingly heavy way. I had never experienced anything quite like this. The darkness was total. Ahead, only several yards, I…
sermons On-Demand Lifestyles | March 15, 2020 15 Mar 202015 Mar 2020 20,000 miles. I hit that on my truck just a few days ago. When I bought the truck, it had 5 miles on it. Here’s the kicker. I bought the…
sermons Building Godly Families | March 8, 2020 8 Mar 20208 Mar 2020 Think back in your memory to those lazy Sunday afternoons of your childhood. Maybe you remember hanging out with family, a meal at a grandparent’s house perhaps. Maybe you remember…
sermons Work/Rest Rhythm | March 1, 2020 1 Mar 2020 Toilets are agents of chaos. One day, years ago when we lived in Macon, we came home from walking to one of our favorite restaurants. Jack was young, maybe two,…
sermons Make Our Lives Have Meaning | Ash Wednesday Sermon 27 Feb 202027 Feb 2020 I like to work on our cars as much as possible on my own. There’s something good about working with my hands. And mechanical problems are problems that have solutions,…
sermons The Wrong Question | February 23, 2020 24 Feb 2020 Where do we begin, the rubble or our sin? The band Bastille in their hit song Pompeii asks that question. It’s a poignant question for any of us who have…
sermons Obedient Servants | February 16, 2020 16 Feb 2020 To begin this morning, I have a couple of maps to share with you. First, take a look at this map of the Methodist Church in the United States in…
sermons Show Me Your Glory | February 2, 2020 3 Feb 2020 Last February, the courthouse had a terrible smell. We all know that story. A story of dead pigeons, of an odor so terrible it drove everyone from the courtroom. A…
sermons Us versus Them | January 26, 2019 26 Jan 2020 We live in a time of deep division. Perhaps nothing so starkly paints that picture than the trial of President Trump. All the coverage points to our division as it…
sermons Lord, Teach Us to Pray | January 19, 2020 19 Jan 202023 Jan 2020 Gott, laß meine Gedanken sich sammeln zu dir. Bei dir ist das Licht, du vergißt mich nicht. Bei dir ist die Hilfe, bei dir ist die Geduld. Ich verstehe deine…
sermons Wesley’s 22 Questions 14 Jan 202021 Mar 2020 If you were unable to be at church Sunday, below are the 22 questions for self-reflection from John Wesley. Additional cards are available at the church office for pick-up. Questions…
sermons Self-Awareness is Transformation | Sermon from 1/12/20 12 Jan 2020 Around us today is the relatively new phenomenon of cancel culture. On social media, if you encounter someone who upsets you, who says things that drive you crazy, who pushes…
sermons The Gossip Train | December 8, 2019 8 Dec 2019 Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone…in the bleak midwinter, long, long, long, ago. Around him, Joseph’s word looked hard as iron. His outlook was bleak. The news…
sermons Keep Watch | December 1, 2019 1 Dec 2019 Keep watch. In the trenches of World War I, British private Henry Williamson, a future author, sat writing to his mother. The year was 1914 and the day was Boxing…
sermons Life in a Row Boat | Thanksgiving Sermon 11/24/19 24 Nov 2019 Our first married Thanksgiving, we decided to host both of our parents. At the time, we lived in Virginia in a tiny, three hundred square foot apartment. I was managing…
sermons Win Christmas | November 17, 2019 17 Nov 2019 Win Christmas That’s what the door at Best Buy said as I walked in. Big letters announced on the doors that the goal, the task, that year was to win…
