Hitting the Road
A version of this sermon was preached on March 20, 2016 (Palm Sunday) at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville. The Scripture readings were Psalm 118.1-2, 19-29 and Luke 19.28-40.
Last September, Kristen and I took the girls...
Making Peace
A version of this sermon was preached at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville on Sunday, December 6, 2015. The Scripture texts were Malachi 3.1-4 and Luke 1.67-79. Accompanying the biblical texts was a reading of Langston...
All Sides of the Sea
A version of this post was my sermon on Sunday, June 28. The texts are Mark 5.21-43 (NRSV) and 1 Thessalonians 3.1-13 (NRSV). It is the third in a five-part sermon series on First Thessalonians.
Three chapters and...
The Long Walk of Love: Remembering Nelson Mandela
The world in memorializing Nelson Mandela today in Johannesburg. As a personal tribute, I am posting the condensed text of a sermon I preached back in April that uses his life as an illustration...
Peter’s Dream. Martin’s Dream. God’s Dream.
This is the text of the sermon I delivered on Sunday, August 25, 2013. I offer it here today (with slight modifications) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for...
Do We Get It?
Texts: Nehemiah 2.1-5, 13-18 and Philippians 2.1-13
This sermon originally preached on September 11, 2011
In the collective American psyche, September 11 is one of those dates that, like December 7, will forever live in...
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Abide These Three: Hope
Text: Lamentations 3:1-6, 14-24 (Todd is reading in this recording from the TANAK) and Revelation 21:1-7
The second sermon in the sermon series “Abide These Three: Faith, Hope, and Love." An audio only link of this sermon and a partial transcript are available here.
