by Patricia Templeton | May 17, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting of the hope that is in you.” That verse from the First Letter of Peter leapt out at me this week. I have to admit that hope is not something I’ve given a lot of thought to lately. Even...
by Patricia Templeton | May 3, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.” I have been preaching for a little more than a quarter-century now, and in all those years I have never...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 26, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Here we are in week six of what has become our new normal – the people of our community scattered across Atlanta, and really now scattered across the country – still coming together on Sunday morning to worship. And once again, as has been the case every week,...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 19, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Well, this is our fifth Sunday of virtual church, livestreaming our service first from the sanctuary, and for three weeks now from our dining room. As we enter our sixth week of staying at home I wonder – how are you doing? Are you in a routine that feels fairly...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 11, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Dear friends in Christ: On this most holy night, in which our Lord Jesus passed over from death to life, the Church invites her members, dispersed throughout the world, to gather in vigil and prayer. For this is the Passover of the Lord, in which,...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 10, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” This opening line of the 22nd psalm is one of the most plaintive cries in Scripture, or indeed, in all of literature. It is a cry of agony, despair, and abandonment....
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 9, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It is the last night of Jesus’ earthly life, the last time he will have dinner with his friends. The specter of betrayal and death is hanging over him. So how does he spend this last meal with his friends, this last time...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 5, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the most sacred week of the year for Christians. Normally this is also the church’s busiest week of the year. Choirs will have spent weeks rehearsing not just for today and Easter, but for special services on...
