by Patricia Templeton | Jan 30, 2022 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” When you heard that passage read a few moments ago, did you look around for the wedding couple? ...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 24, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
How wonderful it is to be here this evening with all of you. This is the first time in two years that we have been able to pull out all the stops and celebrate a major feast day of the Church as...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 19, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
If we have learned anything in the past 20 months of pandemic it is that human beings need community. Isolation may be okay for a little while, but soon we are longing for contact with other people, to be with friends and family. ...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 5, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
When I looked at the scripture readings for this week I was reminded of a game from Sesame Street. Four objects would be shown on the screen while one of the characters sang these words: “One of these things is not like the other....
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 28, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Let me be the first to wish you a happy new year today. That’s right. Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new year in the church calendar. And as always, we begin with a paradox....
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 21, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It has always struck me as kind of a shame that Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, removed from any special notice at Sunday worship services. Most years, including this one, the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the first Sunday of...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 14, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 7, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Charlie Plumb was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. He returned safely from 75 combat missions. But on his 76th flight, his plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected from the plane just in time, pulled his parachute, and drifted to the ground. He was captured...
