by Patricia Templeton | Apr 4, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Wow! I could just stand here and look at you all morning. It is so wonderful to see your faces, or at least your eyes. It is so wonderful to hear more than one or two voices joining together to say the prayers, the psalms, the responses. It is so...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 2, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Unimaginable suffering. Excruciating pain. Bottomless grief. Incomprehensible cruelty. All of that is on display on this most somber day when we remember the death, the execution, of Jesus. It’s a hard...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 21, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” These words are from the 51st Psalm, considered to be scripture’s quintessential prayer of penitence. Tradition says the verses were penned by the great King David after he...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 14, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure? Measure a year? In daylights? In sunsets? In midnights? In cups of coffee? In inches?...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 7, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The picture from my childhood remains amazingly clear in my mind all these years later. My illustrated Bible, given to me by my grandparents when I was three years old, has picture after picture of Jesus. There is the sweet, cherubic, haloed...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 28, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Lent this year seems to be a time of waiting. We’re waiting on vaccines, waiting for the pandemic to be over, waiting to get back to our normal lives, waiting to see one another in person, to go to church, to travel....
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 21, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It is not exactly the kind of post-baptism celebration to which we are accustomed – no brunch with proud family, friends and godparents, no champagne, no gifts, no oohing and aahing over the newly baptized. There is none of that for Jesus....
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 17, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church to an observance of a holy Lent.” This year, these words that I have said almost every Ash Wednesday for more than a quarter of a century sound different to me....
