by Angela Ward | Apr 8, 2021 | Text Sermons
In her all-time number one best-selling single, Tina Turner (THE Tina Turner whose legs are insured by Lloyds of London) asked the most critical question of 1984 – the critical question of all time: “What’s love got to do, got to do with it?” Believe it or not,...
by Angela Ward | Mar 22, 2021 | Text Sermons
Jeremiah 31:31-34 In 1920 the Prohibition movement began in the US. A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. And what was the goal of prohibition? Advocates desired a reduction in substance...
by Angela Ward | Mar 17, 2021 | Text Sermons
For many of us, what we heard today is the most familiar part of the Bible. This text is so familiar, partly, because of the Rock ‘n’ Rollin’ movement in the 1970s when born-again Christians held up John 3:16 signs at sporting events. I was thinking about...
by Angela Ward | Mar 11, 2021 | Text Sermons
In what largely strikes the twenty-first century ear as insensitive (even condescending or “negative Nancy”), the sixteenth century Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, began the collect today with these words: “Almighty God, you know that we have no power in...
by Angela Ward | Mar 6, 2021 | Text Sermons
From today’s Epistle: “Therefore, Abraham’s faith was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Most of us are familiar with the plight of Charlie Brown. Year after year, when football season starts, Charlie Brown asks Lucy to hold the football for him in the hope that he...
