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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…
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Finding Christ in Disney World

I preached this sermon on June 9, 2013 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. Once there was a missionary about to set off on an expedition into the heart of Africa. He retained baggage bearers, planned the trip and the places for stops, and then set out. The first day they made great…
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Walking Humbly

I preached this sermon at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ on April 21, 2013. Everywhere he turns he sees people slipping away from God. The leaders just take more and more land and taxes, making the poor poorer. Wickedness prevails but the spiritual leaders have been cautioned not to preach against it and…
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Healing and Wholeness in the Kingdom of God

I preached this sermon on February 23, 2013 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. I was born in West Virginia and raised in a small town in the mountains of Appalachia in western Maryland called “Westernport”. The sense of community that we had was incredibly strong. Indeed, I did not even realize how…
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The Gift of Freedom

Are we having an amazing weekend? Our country’s 250th birthday. What did you do? Kathy and I went to St. Augustine to experience the events there, including the grand fireworks display. Seemed fitting to celebrate the event in our oldest city. I got choked up watching the fireworks. I am so thankful to have been…
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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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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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