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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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…
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Superspreader
Merriam-Webster states the word “superspreader” first entered our lexicon in 1973. It defines the word as “an individual who is highly contagious and capable of transmitting a communicable disease to an unusually large number of uninfected individuals.” The word found rare use until COVID -19 arrived. COVID carried it into common use, and not favorably.…
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A Writer’s Prayer
My Savior and my Lord, Open my eyes that I may see you moving in my life and the world; Open my eyes that I may see others as you see them; Open my ears that I may hear you speak; Open my ears that I may listen to hear others as you hear them;…
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Good Friday, the Cross, and Atonement
We have now reached the final chapter in the Christian experience of Lent – Holy Week. Lent ends Sunday with Easter. Central to the experience is the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross in what has become known in the United States as Good Friday. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross defines Christianity. The…
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Reflection on Turning 67
I turn 67 today. Not much of a milestone except it is the first birthday after my retirement. So not an official milestone, but it does cause me to look at the day as the the first day of the rest of my life. That begs the obvious question, “What am I going to do…
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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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