Tag: Sermon

• Let Me See–A Baccalaureate Sermon

  What follows is my Baccalaureate sermon delivered to Monmouth College’s graduating class on May 14th, 2016.  It is based on Mark 10: 46-52.   It’s funny, I find myself getting increasingly sentimental at graduation. Every year I am up on that Commencement platform crying over the cheesiest things. Like, tomorrow, you girls will walk across the…

  Teri

  May 15, 2016

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  Art, baccalaureate, Bartimaeus, Class of 2016, Flannery O’Connor, I Once Was Blind but Now I See, Mark 10: 46-52, Monmouth College, preaching, Sermon, We have to see the world as it is before we can turn it into art

• Heschel’s Words

  I am grateful for my husband who puts words like these in my hands when I am writing a sermon. How does one adequately speak of God? Ask Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. “God is a challenge rather than a notion. We do not think Him; we are stirred by Him. We can never describe Him;…

  Teri

  August 29, 2014

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  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ask Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, faith, God, Sermon, writing

• Stuck in Sheol, the Place of the Dead

  Two Sundays ago we had fifty-five students come over to our college’s Presbyterian House for our first program of the year.  It was great.  We made ice cream sundaes, sat around in the grass, and listened to live music. After a little while, I led a brief devotion.  To match the casual tone of the…

  Teri

  September 4, 2013

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  church, God is everywhere, lectionary, Psalm 139, religion, Scripture, Sermon, Sheol