Love Calls Us to Follow
Our current sermon series is called Love on the Cross. Today’s message is titled Love Calls Us to Follow. Our scripture reading is Mark 8: 34-36 if you care to follow in your Bibles. Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny…
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One Foot in the Kingdom
I have a passion for the Kingdom of God. Some might say it’s an obsession. It doesn’t take much to get me talking about it. So what is the Kingdom? “In the beginning God created…” What did he create? Everything! God’s sovereign will was in all he created. And what do we call the place…
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Kingdom Alignment: My Plans And Desires
Reading Time 3.5 Minutes “God bless my plan.” For a very long time I have said this mockingly as an example of exactly the type of prayer we should not pray. Living a Christian life requires us to surrender our lives to Christ, which means we live according to his plan and not ours. I…
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Getting the Message
The grocery seems to be a place where I find the Kingdom more easily. My most recent experience occurred a few days ago. As I entered the checkout line I saw that the young woman bagging the groceries had an almost rigid mask for her face. That was when I could see her face at…
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Responding to Life’s Thunderstorms
I preached this sermon yesterday at The Fountain UMC in Suwanee. Georgia. Some of it is a reprise of a sermon I preached years ago and some is new. Our pastor and I agreed that our congregation is ready to take a next step as individuals and a church in the focus of this message.…
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Stuck at the Gate
I preached this sermon July 3, 2016 at The Fountain UMC in Suwanee, Georgia. It sets out just about everything I know to be true about the Kingdom of God. For faithful readers of my sermons you will recognize my story at the end. All though it is one with which you may be familiar,…
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Kingdom Harmony
I recently spent two weeks at the beach. There are few things I find more relaxing than just sitting by the ocean’s edge and watching the surf roll in and recede out. The rhythm of the waves is soothing. It resonates deeply and touches something atavistic in me. Humans are programmed for rhythm, melody, and…
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The Flag and the Cross
After the terrible racially motivated murders at the Charleston church last week, great focus has turned to the Confederate flag as a symbol embraced by the murderer. The flag actually is not the flag of the Confederacy, but the Confederate Battle Flag known as the Southern Cross. The flag has been a symbol of the…
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I'm Tom Trezise a retired lawyer and corporate executive with over twenty years of experience as a Methodist lay preacher. Raised in Appalachia, I proudly call myself a hillbilly at heart. I'm the executive director of The Everyday Kingdom, a non-profit devoted to fostering a community that helps people find and experience the peace, purpose, and joy available from living every day in Christ’s kingdom.
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