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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More IMs From I AM
I preached this sermon on April 27, 2014 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. I borrowed the title from an older sermon I preached in Maryland because I like it, but most of the sermon is new. One of my favorite comic strips is Hagar the Horrible. Hagar is a somewhat lovable, self-centered,…
Read More Joy and Rejoicing
I preached this sermon on December 15, 2013 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. We were in the midst of a snowstorm, however, so the total attendance was less than me, the organist, and the ushers. So I have been jokingly calling this my greatest sermon never heard! I hope you can find…
Read More What’s My Line?
I preached this sermon today, October 27, 2013, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. In the early days of television, there was a game show called “What’s My Line?” It was hosted by Gary Moore, and featured Kitty Carlisle, Bennett Cerf, and other celebrities. (If you are asking yourself “who are they?” then…
Read More Faithful Obedience
I preached this sermon on August 11, 2013 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Hackettstown, New Jersey. Professor Michael Green tells us of the young man who, while navigating a narrow mountain path, falls off the edge and tumbles down a cliff. As he bounces down the face of the cliff, he is able to reach…
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.