Grace

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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The Witness of Friends

[I preached this sermon in 2001. It is very personal and special to me. I hope you find it to be special also.] Today is Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday in the Christian year. Next week we begin again with Advent, the anticipation of the coming Christ. But this Sunday calls…
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The Front Room

[This is the first sermon I preached over a decade ago. It holds special meaning for me. I hope it will for you also.] Not long after I left the practice of law for USF&G, when discussing possible promotion with the CEO, I told him he was crazy. I had absolutely no management experience and…
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The Uttermost End

I prefer to think of myself as not averse to change. I have to confess though that there are times when I just prefer things with which I was raised. The King James Version of the Bible is one of those things. I was raised with the King James Version and even though I recognize…
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Puppets or Pinocchios?

[ I started this sermon by walking a marionette down the church aisle.] I always feel a little silly with these things, because I’m not very good with them, but they are fun. It’s a bit of a challenge to tug the string the right way at the right time to get the puppet to…
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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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