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....
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...
