Sermons

Sermon – Loving the Law or Its Freedom Romans 13:8-10; Exodus 20: 1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Farmville Presbyterian Church October 8, 2023 - Love is the best law   My family moved to Virginia from South Carolina in the middle of my seventh-grade year.  I’ll be the first to...

Sermon – Where is God? Philippians 2:1-12; Exodus 17:1-7 Farmville Presbyterian Church October 1, 2023 - Finding God wherever we are   You know Ernie and Greg, those precocious little boys who always seemed to be getting into all kinds of cute and not so cute...

Sermon – Complaining Carefully Matthew 20:1-16; Exodus 16:2-15 Farmville Presbyterian Church September 24, 2023 - How we petition God for what is right   I hope word has not gotten around town, yet, but I may have gotten banned from Brookview Lodge this week. ...

Sermon – Swapping Out the Lenses Romans 14:1-12; Exodus 14:19-31 Farmville Presbyterian Church September 17, 2023 - Seeing old stories in new ways/God helping us to see   If you had to pick any story in the Old Testament as the one to remember, perhaps anywhere...

Sermon – Never Forget to Eat 1 Corinthians 11:17-26; Exodus 12:1-14                                                               Farmville Presbyterian Church September 10, 2023 - Telling our stories with food   I have been known to say that I am Presbyterian...

Sermon – An Inch from Destruction Matthew 16:13-20; Exodus 3:1-15                                                               Farmville Presbyterian Church September 3, 2023 - Encountering God’s holiness/Finding God’s leading hope in a tough place   Today, we...

Sermon – The Longaberger Legend Romans 12:1-5; Exodus 1: 8-2:10                                                               Farmville Presbyterian Church August 27, 2023 - God raises hope in desperation   We begin the conversation this week with the most famous...

Sermon – Is That What Really Happened? Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; Genesis 45:1-15                                                               Farmville Presbyterian Church August 20, 2023 - Reinterpreting our history in God’s grace   I want to briefly tell you a...