Sermons & Worship from March 2021

Luke 9:7-9; 23:4-11     Today as we stand on the threshold of Holy Week, I want to ask a very simple question: who killed Jesus?   Every year on Palm Sunday, we reenact Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, waving our palms and singing our Hosannas knowing full well that the celebration will be short-lived because by the end of the week, we will be standing before the cross watching Jesus take his last breath.  The rhythms of Holy Week are very familiar…

Luke 16:19-31 When my daughter Stacy was on the Alfred-Almond Track team, she had a T-shirt that read, “You know Track and Field is not your sport if you stop at each hurdle waiting for someone to open the gate.” If we go by today’s Dexter Time, we would have to conclude that Dexter is not made for track and field.  (For those listening to this as a podcast, I refer you to our Youtube channel and the video of…

Mark 4:26-32 As of today, 2.65 million people across the world have died from Covid-19, half a million of them in the US.  In his speech Thursday night, President Biden tried to come up with a comparison that would help us comprehend those numbers: “This is as many people as died in World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and Sept 11th,” Biden said trying to drive home the scope of the tragedy.  After he was done speaking, journalists…

Mark 3:13-19; Romans 16 How are you at remembering names?  Some of you might have a mind like a steel trap, able to retain names and faces for years after you have met someone.  Others of us are more mediocre and it may take a couple of greetings before the name gets engraved in our memories.  The worst I have ever seen, however, were Troy and Trevor, two boys I met one summer at Camp Vick, the American Baptist Church…