by Patricia Templeton | Feb 14, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today is the last Sunday of the season of Epiphany, those weeks between Christmas and the beginning of Lent. Epiphany ends every year with the reading we heard today, the story of the Transfiguration – the ultimate mountaintop experience where...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 7, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today’s reading from the prophet Isaiah finds the people of Israel in deep despair, wondering if they’ve been abandoned by God. The land that God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the land that God led them to...
by Patricia Templeton | Jan 10, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
There is a common theme running throughout all three Scripture readings today. Did you notice it? The Holy Spirit appears in each of the lessons. In Genesis we hear that the Spirit, appearing as wind, was with God at the first moment of...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 24, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness — on them light has shined.” Usually on Christmas Eve preachers don’t pay a lot of attention to the first two readings of...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 13, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
This third Sunday of Advent we light the pink candle on our wreath to symbolize the joy expressed by Mary when she learns she will bear a son who will be the Savior of the world. Mary bursts into song at this unexpected news, the...
by Patricia Templeton | Dec 6, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
What do you still need to do to be prepared for Christmas? Do you still have gifts to buy? Decorating to do? Cards to mail? Baking and cooking? Wrapping? There is so much to do between now and December 25. I...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 22, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The calendar says today is November 22, but the liturgical calendar says this is the last Sunday after Pentecost, which means it is the last Sunday of the Church year. The regular calendar says we still have almost six weeks left in 2020, but in...
by Patricia Templeton | Nov 15, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
I was about 10 years old when psychic Jean Dixon predicted the exact date of the end of the world. Somehow in those days before the internet and social media the news of this impending doom raced through our fifth grade classroom, both exciting and terrifying us. ...
