A sermon preached on May 13, 2007, Mother’s Day, and the occasion for the baptism of Emma Grace Crowningshield, based upon Revelation 21:10, 22 – 22:5. Last Sunday evening, many of us had the profound privilege of hearing Ursula Pavel speak in this very pulpit, describing her first hand encounter with evil on a truly […]
A sermon preached on May 6, 2007 based upon Acts 11:1 – 18 and John 13:31 – 35. Before I came to Parsippany eighteen years ago, I served for seven years as the pastor of a little country church in the tiny village of Everittstown, New Jersey. In the village a man in his sixties […]
A sermon from April 29, 2007 based on Revelations 7:7 – 19 and Psalm 23, entitled, “Why We Must Pray” One of the truly great souls of the past century belongs to Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglican priest who had such a strong hand in helping to overturn apartheid in his country of South Africa, […]
A sermon preached on April 22, 2007 based on Acts 9:1 – 20, addressing the violence that took place the previous week on the campus of Virginia Tech. With the horror of the shootings that took place on the campus of Virginia Tech, we were once more reminded of how very fragile and vulnerable we […]
Before I preach my sermon, I want to properly recognize my sources, lest I be accused of plagiarism, or for that matter, making this stuff up. My sermon this morning draws heavily from a book written some time ago by a man named Luke (no last name). It comes under a genre known as “Gospel”, […]
Most of us are aware that there are four separate Gospels recorded in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They were all written at least 40 years after Jesus was crucified. The stories vary, as you might well expect, given the amount of time that had elapsed, and the fact that any traumatic […]
As we listen this evening to the old, old story as told by Luke, there are some things for which I would invite you to listen. First, at the very outset the presence of evil is mentioned. Luke succinctly tells us: “Then Satan entered into Judas…” Evil took possession of Judas. Evil is real, and […]
A sermon preached on Palm Sunday, 2007 based on the 19th chapter of Luke, entitled “Why Jesus Had to Die”. I have become convinced that, for the most part, we have been kept from understanding exactly what was going on when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on that original Palm Sunday. For one thing, there were, […]
A sermon preached on March 25, 2007 based on Isaiah 43:16 – 21 and John 12:1-8 entitled “Delusional Beliefs”. When I was in seminary, during one of my three years I did my field work in a local mental health center. Part of this work meant going once a month to spend an evening at […]
“The Ambiguity of Judgment and Grace”, a sermon preached by Pastor Jeff on March 11, 2007, based on Luke 13:1 – 9. We human beings like things clear. Ambiguity tends to make us uncomfortable. We like to be able to make generalizations that bring order to our experience and thought. (Come to think of it, […]
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