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If You’re Happy and You Know It

If You’re Happy and You Know It (Luke 6: 17-26)   Many of you, like me, grew up in church and as a small child learned what I guess we can call Children’s Praise Songs.  When Teresa and I went to her home church in Coldspring, Texas, I left my Sunday School Class to help [...]

2025-02-18T08:31:09-08:00February 18th, 2025|Sermons|

Let’s Go Fishing!

Let’s Go Fishing! (Luke 5: 1-11)   It was many years ago when I was a young police officer when I mentioned to one of my training officers that my in-laws lived on Lake Livingston and liked to fish.  I didn’t know that fishing was his passion, and he immediately asked if he could be [...]

2025-02-11T07:54:08-08:00February 11th, 2025|Sermons|

Speaking Truth to Power

Speaking Truth to Power (Luke 4: 21-30)   A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the District Superintendent asked me to consider being the Puget Sound Missional District representative on the Conference Board of Church and Society.  He gave me a brief description of what all it entailed, and I agreed to have my [...]

2025-02-05T08:54:46-08:00February 5th, 2025|Sermons|

Part Time is Plenty

Part-time is Plenty (1 Corinthians 12: 12-31)   I recently finished reading a book that the District Superintendent recommended to me entitled: Part-time is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy, written by part-time pastor Jeffrey MacDonald.  He says that churches experiencing numerical and financial decline may dread the day when they can no longer afford a [...]

2025-01-28T08:00:25-08:00January 28th, 2025|Sermons|

It’s A Gift

It’s A Gift (1 Corinthians 12: 1-11)   I remember that time period in between when I was told I was going to be appointed as the certified Lay Minister for Community United Methodist Church how excited I was to begin a new chapter in my life.  And I remembered how nervous I was as [...]

2025-01-20T12:09:21-08:00January 20th, 2025|Sermons|

Jesus Is for Everybody

Jesus is for Everybody (Acts 8: 1-17)   Back in the Spring of 2008 when I found out I had been offered a position as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Jefferson County I broke the news to the Sunday School Class at First Baptist, Tyler, that I had been teaching that Teresa and I would [...]

2025-01-14T07:15:32-08:00January 14th, 2025|Sermons|

When the Light comes On

When the Light Comes On (Ephesians: 3: 1-12)   I remember this one case I had not long after I started practicing law.  I had been appointed to represent an older lady who had been accused of forging the title to a used pickup truck.  It had been purchased by a man, now deceased, who [...]

2025-01-07T07:46:12-08:00January 7th, 2025|Sermons|

Who IS this child called Jesus?

To watch video, please click link below; Thanks to Diane Johnson for filling in for me today.  Diane regularly preaches on the fifth Sunday of the month to give me a little breather.  It works well in December as there are a lot of moving parts in Advent.  If you weren't in church or watched [...]

2024-12-30T10:23:31-08:00December 30th, 2024|Sermons|

World Peace

World Peace (Luke 2: 1-20)   The running joke at my house every Christmas for the last forty plus years is my response to what I want for Christmas this year.  And every year, when asked, I respond: World Peace.  This year my daughter told me that she knew I wanted World Peace, but she [...]

2024-12-26T10:45:26-08:00December 26th, 2024|Sermons|

Mary Did You Know?

Mary, Did You Know? (Luke 1: 39-55)   We’ve all had big dreams growing up.  We’ve dreamt of fame and fortune.  We’ve dreamt of being a doctor, an astronaut, or maybe President of the United States.  Afterall, we’re told that because we live in the United States of America, the greatest country in the world, [...]

2024-12-23T13:23:39-08:00December 23rd, 2024|Sermons|
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