Sermons

Sermon – The Power of Prayer John 17:1-21a; Isaiah 1:12-17 5/17/26 Would you consider yourself to be “good” at praying?  There are folk out there who would consider themselves to be good prayers.  Even still, how would they even evaluate that?  Have they gotten the...

Sermon – Thank You, Epimenides Job 12:7-10; Acts 17:22-31 5/10/26   Oh, you are in trouble today, friends. Welcome to my home.  Today is a day to celebrate classical learning.  Before H-SC, I took 5 years of Latin, most of which was actually with a Longwood...

[Sorry, no audio today.] Sermon – Owning the Narrative Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16; Acts 7 5/3/26   If you had to tell someone else your story, what would you say? Many of us would probably go into where our people are from, maybe where we went to school, what kind of...

Sermon – The Gated Community Psalm 23; John 10:1-10 4/26/26   Welcome to what is perhaps one of the most interesting times of the church year.  This is the period between Easter and Pentecost – the season of Easter.   Before Easter, Lent is very useful but also...

Sermon – Homeless in Farmville Isaiah 51:1-6; 1 Peter 1:13-25 4/19/26 It is a regular occurrence at my mailbox to get a letter addressed to someone else.  Literally, every week or two we get a piece of mail to our address with a name that is not ours.  Apparently,...

Sermon – Trusting What We Know Exodus 15:1-11; John 20:19-31 4/12/26 Today we follow the gospel accounts of events after Jesus rose from the dead.  One of the most famous and significant stories is the one we have today from John’s Gospel about Thomas, one of the...

Sermon – Lamb-basting Our Sin Exodus 12:1-14; Matthew 21:1-11 3/29/26 Expectations are a pretty big thing and we all have them.  Back at New Year’s, Anne and I celebrated 30 years of marriage with a trip to Hawaii.  It was months and months of planning.  Well in...