Is Worry Sinful?
I preached this sermon on August 26, 2012 at Trinity UMC in Hackettstown, NJ. When I was a boy, my mother had the Serenity Prayer at the edge of one of our mirrors. I’m sure you’re familiar with it. It’s attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr and goes like this: God, grant me the serenity to accept…
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Gone Fishin’
I preached this sermon on July 22, 2012 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Hackettstown, NJ. When I learned that I would be delivering the final sermon in Frank’s fishing sermon series I thought about trying to switch to avoid the topic. I’m not much of a fisherman. I don’t have the patience required and never…
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Faithful Doubters
(This is the sermon I delivered on June 24, 2012 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. It includes a personal story that I have used in one other sermon previously, The Witness of Friends. It was just too perfect a match for the Gospel lesson not to use it again. I hope you…
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Kingdom Promises
(I preached this sermon on April 22, 2012 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. It was the beginning sermon in a series addressing major themes of the Bible. The themes here are Revelation, Salvation, Reconciliation, and the Kingdom of God.) Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings of Laos and Vietnam reached…
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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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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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