Preached at MCC Columbia (S.C.) July 3, 2005 Readings: Matthew 11:27-30, Romans 7:13-25 We’ve worked very as a congregation hard to make sure that this is a safe and sacred place – a place where each of us can feel safe to explore our beliefs,
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: Matthew 12:46-50, 1 John 3:1-3 You know you’re in a bad family when … The pet cat got better food than you did. Your parents told you about strange men giving away sweets and to go and find
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: Psalm 139:7-12, Luke 6:20-26 I love America. Make no mistake about it. I am grateful for the happy accident that led me to be born into this country. Our varied landscape, our varied people, our varied experiences and
A man was walking across a bridge one day, and saw another man standing on the edge, about to jump off. The first man immediately ran over and said “Stop! Don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. The man said, “Well, there’s so much
Paradox of grace Jim Mulholland and Philip Gulley seem to get a kick out of stirring up controversy. As the authors of the controversial book If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person they’re getting used to their status as targets. Their book
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Third Sunday after Pentecost: Genesis 18:1-15, Romans 5:1-5 According to a recent newspaper report, bouncers stopped a visitor on the way into a club in Germany because she was 80-years-old. The woman tried to slip past
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: Genesis 1:26-28 Luke 1:26-38 Anyone who is charged with the task of writing and delivering sermons learns very early not to discount any source of inspiration. The title and inspiration for this sermon came from a recent choir
Readings: 6 “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers
Raising up prophets to society When I first picked up Dr. Robert Minor’s book Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human, I couldn’t help but be reminded of my teen years when we were
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for Passion Sunday: 4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens — wakens my ear to listen