by Steve Hedrick | Feb 20, 2017 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. At some point, if you’ve been around any Anglican setting long enough, you’ll occasionally find the preacher steering away from the appointed texts to focus instead on the appointed collect of the day....
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 13, 2017 | Text Sermons
One of my favorite short stories is by Flannery O’Connor, entitled “Parker’s Back.” Obadiah Elihue Parker is a profane and shiftless man, covered from head to toe with tattoos. Every inch of his body, except for his back, is covered with multicolored...
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 6, 2017 | Text Sermons
About a week and a half ago I began working on my sermon for this Sunday using the texts assigned for the fifth Sunday after Epiphany. I was then informed by my fellow clergy, that those were the wrong texts, and we were going to celebrate Candlemas on this Sunday....
by Steve Hedrick | Feb 6, 2017 | Text Sermons
The Gospel today is the introduction of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, which is the longest teaching discourse in the entire New Testament. This section is called the beatitudes. Beatitudes means “A declaration or ascription of special blessedness.” Today, Jesus gives us...
by Steve Hedrick | Jan 23, 2017 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Malacy and I have recently been working on building good conversation skills. I’ll just say it’s one of our many relational resolutions for 2017. Earlier in the week she, innocently, started up a...
