Push That Rock
Readings: 2 Timothy 1:7, Matthew 25:31-46 There is a story told of a young man in a cabin who prays to God and asks God what He wants him to do with his life. God tells him to look at the massive rock that is in
Category Archives: Sermons
Queer Eye for the Straight World
Lambda Christian Community Church, Edmonton, Alberta Your employer asks you to run over Staples and purchase a box of paper clips. You do things right, so you order one of everything Staples sells to be delivered to your office. What would your employer say? When
Ha!
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
Jesus Has 2 Mommies
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
Love Makes You Do Stupid Things
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
I Surrender All
This is my first sermon and I want it to be the best sermon ever. I have heard many sermons. Some good. Some great. Some short. Some much, much too long. I want my first sermon to be good and inspiring. I want it to
The Journey of Acceptance
Northaven United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas Reading for the Second Sunday in Lent and Trinity Sunday: John 3:1-17 In case you haven’t figured it out, there is something advertisers know about us. There is something that the sellers of consumer goods know about us. There
Holy Family, Batman!
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-29 This sermon though was not an easy one to write. I usually can write a sermon in a day – two at the longest, but this one took about three days. It reminded me
Joy
First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent: Isaiah 35:1-16, Luke 1:46-55 One of the characteristics of the life of faith is the experience of counterintuitive joy. Just when the logical response to external circumstances would seem to
Get Real: Read the Book
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Coconut Grove, Fla. Today is the feast of Christ the King. This is the sermon I was going to preach. It wasn’t bad. All about Christ the King. So what? What has that got to do with our lives today? I