by Angela Ward | Oct 9, 2020 | Text Sermons
What I find wonderful about this church is that our parishioners and the clergy of this parish take seriously what we read in the Bible. We don’t view the Bible, and especially the words of Jesus, as suggestions, or ancient sage advice that does not correlate to the...
by Angela Ward | Sep 29, 2020 | Text Sermons
I love church signs – or marquees, as they are more properly called. Mt. Pleasant Baptist advertises this on two lines: “Do you know what hell is?” And, underneath on the second line, the sign reads, “Come, hear our preacher.” A Presbyterian church sign makes this...
by Angela Ward | Sep 22, 2020 | Text Sermons
What is human nature? How do you define human nature? Webster’s defines human nature like this: human nature is the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. Thank you, Webster’s dictionary, for perhaps the most unclear definition in all history. The...
by Angela Ward | Sep 22, 2020 | Text Sermons
For several months, we’ve been working our way through St. Paul’s magnum opus, his letter to the Church in Rome. Today we have reached chapter fourteen (of sixteen), and St. Paul is dealing, once again, with the mixed nature of the church in Rome. By “mixed” I mean...
by Angela Ward | Sep 7, 2020 | Announcements, News, Text Sermons
Have you ever noticed how some movies, or Netflix series, instantly resonate, while others are just too much trouble to figure out? Seventeen years later and I’m still not sure “Lost in Translation” even has a point, and the only reason people “oohed” and “aahed”...
