Tile: Angels and hell Texts: Rom 8:26-39; Matt 13:31-33, 44-52 Date: July 24, 2011 Author: Isaac S. Villegas I used to live in a house in Durham, in Walltown, where we tried to create an environment of hospitality, of letting needy people stay with us, of hosting meals throughout the week for people in our [...]

Tile: Waiting and Groaning Texts: Rom 8:12-25 Date: July 17, 2011 Author: Isaac S. Villegas We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains… and not only creation, but we ourselves…groan inwardly (Rom 8:22-23). For the past ten years, Brian Haw camped in Parliament Square in London, England. At night he slept [...]

Title: Egads! a sermon on the Song of Solomon Date: July 3, 2011 Author: Thomas Lehman Texts: Zechariah 9:9-12, Song of Songs 2:8-13, Romans 7:15-25a, Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 My title is a plagiarism. On the 31st of August, 2003, Jennifer Graber preached on the same passage from Song of Solomon. After long deliberation I have [...]

Title: New creation Date: July 6, 2011 Texts: 2 Cor 5:18a Place: MCUSA Convention Author: Isaac Villegas “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.” We pulled into the parking lot of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church—a 100-year-old black Baptist church; we were there for our Holy Thursday footwashing service. Since [...]