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…
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Perfected Love
I preached this sermon on July 13 2014 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ. I was born in West Virginia, and raised in the Maryland mountains across the Potomac River. Storytelling is a great mountain tradition. Elkins, West Virginia is located practically in the center of the state in the West Virginia mountains.…
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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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