Preaching the Scriptures

The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Acts 2:1-21 Doors, walls, and ceilings If you think about it, the Easter season is, to a certain degree a rather damning critique of the effectiveness of doors, walls, and ceilings.   One has these items for a very specific reason: to keep things out and to keep things in.   And generally, I think we find they are actually quite useful.   Without doors, walls, and ceilings our habitations would be reduced to a stack of windows in a field, plus some rather weathered books and items of clothing, also probably some dangerously emboldened squirrels.   And yet, for all of their general effectiveness in our own lives, doors, walls, and ceilings continually let the disciples down following the resurrection.   By the day of Pentecost, if pressed, they might have been inclined to admit that these items no longer properly functioned in the post-Resurrection world. It started on Easter morning when the rock door of the tom...

The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson John 15:9-17 The Price of Love When we first started dating, because I was super charming, every time Jen asked me to do something I would say, “I do what I want, ‘cause I’m sweet.”   I’m sure she found that very endearing.   I mean, she still married me, so… But I have a confession to make: that wasn’t entirely true.   I mean, I am sweet, obviously.   But I did not do whatever I wanted.   Because that’s just not how love works.   And I love her. Because of my love for Jen, my life changed.   Love changed me.   I made compromises that I would not have otherwise made, and that I would not have made for anyone else.   I altered my patterns and routines.   I changed behaviors and attitudes.   I spent my time and money differently.   I pretended to be interested in stuff she liked.   I followed her to India for three weeks, because she asked me if I was interested, I was not interes...