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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The Operating System: A Parable
To the extent that a book can be a major influence on a life, The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person by E. Stanley Jones has been so on mine. Jones does as complete and thorough an explanation of the Kingdom of God as you can find. Jones relates in the Introduction how he was…
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Created for Eternity
You are special. You are loved. Boy, those are simple sentences that pack a lot of meaning. I suspect that most of us more often than we care to admit do not feel that way. So why do I say that? Because God says so. In Genesis 1:1, 27 we find: In the beginning…God created…
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
I recently saw the movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. It is a wonderful story of the relationship between Fred Rogers, of the children’s television show Mister Rogers, and a reporter. It is structured as one of the shows from the series, but for adults. It is well worth seeing. In one of the…
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Our Father’s Day
I preached this sermon 11 years ago today at Timonium United Methodist Church in Timonium, MD. I did not realize until today that I had not published it. I have added a couple of links to relevant material. I hope this Father’s Day you find some meaning in it. Happy Father’s Day! I always welcome…
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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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