Sermons

Too Much To Ask (Mark 10: 17-31)   In 1789 John Wesley, the founder of our Methodist denomination, preached one of his more famous sermons entitled, “The Use of Money” in which he emphasized one [...]

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Hebrews 1: 1-4; 2: 5-12)   The song Bridge Over Troubled Water was written in 1969 by Paul Simon and it came to him so quickly he wondered where it came [...]

I appreciated Diane's sermon on the Power of Prayer as we wrap up our five week sermon series on the Book of James.  I agree that prayer is powerful, a lot more powerful than we [...]

A Word to the Wise (James 3: 13-4, 7-8)   I believed that the basic function of my role as an attorney was to counsel people, people who sought me out for advice or whom [...]

A Slip of the Tongue (James 3: 1-12)   If election cycles are nothing else, they are entertaining, especially in the age of the internet where nothing, NOTHING, is forgotten or goes away.  A slip [...]

What Cost Mercy? (James 2: 1-17)   My friend Richard Kennedy was fond of saying that the milk of human kindness was not to be found in the Smith County courthouse.  Richard, like me, had [...]