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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New Release Contributes to the Popular Appalachian Literature Genre
“Over the past couple of decades, Appalachian literature has developed a strong and close relationship with independent publishing, showing the latter to be an important medium for the expression for Appalachian voice,” writes Kristopher Clifford in a master’s thesis in 2007. A new release, Former Things Forgotten, by Thomas Trezise, published by the hybrid Redemption…
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Pray Like Tevya
In high school, I had roles in two productions of Broadway musicals. I didn’t even sing, but they gave me the bug. Since then I’ve had a love affair with Broadway. One of my favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof. If you are unfamiliar with it, the musical tells the story of a Jewish…
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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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Josh Duggar and Christian Hypocrites
The recent revelation that Josh Duggar had sexually molested minor family members and friends when he, too, was a minor has brought to the fore the uncomfortable fact that Christians are sinners. When this news broke I had no idea even who Josh Duggar is. But I quickly learned that he is a Christian on…
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Wasted Youth?
I preached this sermon on August 31, 2014 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, MD. This is probably my last sermon as a lay speaker at Trinity as an employment change will have Kathy and me soon leaving New Jersey. George Bernard Shaw, the Nobel Prize winning Irish playwright once observed, “Youth is wasted…
Read More Welcome, I'm Tom
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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