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Each sermon in this archive offers two versions, one is Tom’s sermon start to finish which you see when you click on each sermon below. But there is also a version that Tom took into the pulpit with him, which shows his creativity in creating the manuscript with clues in the layout that cue how he would preach the sermon live. To see that manuscript, click the download sermon button. Please take a look at both.
Communion Meditations
Maundy Thursday Communion Meditation
We call the disciples saints now, but they were a long, long way from sainthood that night in the Upper Room.
4 min read
Communion Meditation: World Communion Sunday
Today is a great day in the life of the Church. EVERY Sunday, of course is a great day in the life of the Church. Every Sunday is a commemoration of Easter. Each Lord’s Day is a little Easter, a reminder that it was on the first day of the week that God raised Jesus from the dead. It’s why we gather to worship as Christians on the first and not the last day of the week.
5 min read
Communion Meditation
Is there a writer in the Bible, is there a writer anywhere, whose poetry is more lilting, more soaring, more ecstatic and more exquisitely tender than that of the person we know only as the unknown prophet of the Exile?
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Communion Meditation
As a background for this brief meditation---I wish there were more time to expand on it---I would like to read the Old TESTAMENT lectionary reading for this Transfiguration Sunday....Transfiguration Sunday....the day Jesus glowed with a supernatural radiance...
always comes the Sunday before Lent begins.... the solemn season of Lent is bracketed by the glory of Transfiguration and the glory of Easter.
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Communion Meditation
December 1, 1991 Something rather startling to realize because we don’t usually think of it is how close together in a way Christmas and...
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Communion Meditation
Once upon a time my father-in-law received an invitation to attend the inauguration of the President of the United States. How about that! Don’t ask me to tell you what he did to warrant the invitation, because I don’t know.
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Ascension Sunday Communion Meditation
The Thursday coming up, the 9th of May, will be the 40th day after Easter, and in the Christian calendar, that’s Ascension Day, the day in between Easter and Pentecost when the resurrected Christ, in the words of the Creed, “ascended into heaven”, to sit at the right hand of the Father.
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Communion Meditation
How do you celebrate Holy Communion during Eastertide? This is Resurrection season, after all, Victory season, the triumphant time of the year.... Between now and Pentecost, while all the flags are flying; do you observe the commemoration of suffering and sacrifice?
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Communion Meditation: “The Comforter”
Back when I was growing up, a long time ago, in the wilds of North Florida, we had a thing in our home called a “down comforter.” Maybe you had one, too. Ours was something my mother made with her own hands.
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Maundy Thursday: The Gifts of the Upper Room
One of the most touching and unforgettable scenes in the whole passion narrative is the scene that unfolds in the Upper Room. You remember the story---It was a Thursday, the last evening, as it turned out, before Jesus’ death.
7 min read
Communion Meditation
It’s still too early in Advent for us to sing Christmas carols, I suppose. Technically, carols should be sung only during the season of Christmas, after the birth, as a witness to the birth.
3 min read
Communion Meditation
Today is June 7, 1987. The significance of that? Well....a number of things. To begin with, perhaps on the lowest level of significance, today is the first Sunday of the first week of the new Annual Conference year.
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Communion Meditation
Two stories very quickly, by way of contrast and comparison--One from the Old Testament...the other from the New.
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Communion Meditation
In the days of the early Church, the 2 cardinal events that were celebrated each year following the Crucifixion were the Resurrection and Pentecost. We still observe them in that sequence today.
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