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 [...]

Last Sunday I asked you to remember your baptism. Today I ask you to remember your calling. Today we heard these words from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians:
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God….. God is faithful;
by God you were called into the fellowship of [...]

A message given by The Rev. Scott Summerville
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Asbury UM Church
This morning we are remembering the baptism of Jesus. Today I will invite forward any of you who wish to renew the covenant you entered into or others entered into on your behalf at your baptism.
Last Sunday was Epiphany when we recall [...]

“So therefore, none of you can become my disciple
if you do not give up all your possessions.”
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In the Bible there is not a great deal of humor. There is some here and there. Sara laughs in her old age when God tells her she’s going to have a baby. She thought the idea [...]

A Message given by Rev. Scott Summerville
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Jesus gives this advice in the fourteenth chapter of Luke:
When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host and the host who invited [...]

A Message given Sunday, August 26, 2007
by Rev. Scott Summerville
There were major religious stories in the news this past week. I am referring to the controversial program on CNN entitled God’s Warriors. I am referring also to publication of the private confessional writings of Mother Theresa that have caused such a stir. I’ll [...]

A message given Sunday, July 15, 2007
by Rev. Scott Summerville
Asbury UMC
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a nice little parable – a story of crime, blood, cold hearted cruelty, and human indifference to the pain of others. In this parable a Jewish man is beaten and stripped and robbed and left to die; his [...]