Rev. Scott Summerville May 8, 2011 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. (Luke 24:30-31) Yesterday Mary Ellen I traveled north to Saratoga Springs to attend a [...]

A message given Easter Sunday by Rev. Scott Summerville Matthew 28:1-10 Now after the sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville When we were boys my daddy taught me and my three brothers how to paddle a canoe. He showed us how to hold the paddle, how to keep your arms straight while you stroke the paddle through the water, how to hold the paddle flat to the wind as you bring it [...]

by Rev. Scott Summerville “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10 We are preparing for our Thanksgiving gatherings and holiday meals. Most of us will feel very full by the end of the week. Some of us will be too full; we will wish we had pushed back from [...]

by Rev. Scott Summerville “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your [...]

I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ By Rev. Scott Summerville Matthew 25:31-40 [31] “When the Son of man comes in his glory, [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville Romans 14:8: If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. I have been thinking for the past week about traveling through time. You will see in a moment why I [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise person whose house was built upon rock; the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. [...]

  A Message given by Rev. Scott Summerville Asbury United Methodist Church Yonkers, NY   August 15, 2010  _____________   Luke 12:49-56   “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it [...]

  A message given Sunday, August 29, 2010 by Rev. Scott Summerville Asbury UMC, Yonkers, NY  _______________________________   On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely… When he noticed how the guests chose the places [...]