The Rev. Scott Summerville
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, […]

Rev. Scott Summerville
Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
9:9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. 9:10 And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting […]

A Message for Memorial Day Sunday
Rev. Scott Summerville
What would it be like suddenly to lose your memory? It is a frightening thought, because it is hard to separate who we are from the memories that we have. In critical ways our memories makes us who we are. Many of us have gone through the experience […]

Rev. Scott Summerville
How many of you speak the English language with an accent?
So some of you think that you do; some of you apparently think that you don’t; and some of you are confused.
Actually this is a trick question.
There is only one place in the entire world where the English language is spoken without an […]

Rev. Scott Summerville
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you–that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus […]

A message given Sunday, March 9, 2008
by Rev. Scott Summerville
I know that you are all grouchy this morning; you are in a bad mood because you lost that hour to daylight savings time. So I have decided to give you back one half hour of your lost time . I’m going to pronounce […]

A message given Sunday, February 17, 2008
by Rev. Scott Summerville
How many of you are recent college graduates or are currently enrolled in college? And how many of you are or ever have been the parent of a college student? A most amazing thing happened in this very place on May 8, 2005. It […]

By Rev. Scott Summerville, Sunday, February 10, 2008
Matthew 4:1-11
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God,
command these stones to become loaves […]

A message given by Rev. Scott Summerville
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Matthew 17:1-7
I have been debating with myself this week concerning the subject of this morning’s message. I was eager to delve into the gospel story of the Transfiguration, that fascinating and dreamlike story of mountains and visions. I also felt pulled in the direction of […]

A message given January 27, 2008
by Rev. Scott Summerville
Matthew 4:18-23
As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter,
and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.”
A lot of […]