“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 [...]

a message given Sunday, July 8, 2007
by Rev. Scott Summerville
Asbury UM Church
Here’s a puzzle for you:
At the center of Jesus’ ministry and at the heart of his teaching was something he called “the Kingdom of God.” That is what he preached about, and when he healed he proclaimed his healing to be a sign [...]

A message given by Rev. Scott Summerville
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Asbury UMC
Luke 9:51-62
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did [...]

A (short) message given on Children’s Day
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Asbury UMC
Rev. Scott Summerville
Luke 7:36-507:36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 7:37 And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating [...]

A message given May 27, 2007
Pentecost — Memorial Day
by Rev. Scott Summerville
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind… All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in [...]

A message given Sunday, May 20, 2007
by Rev. Scott Summerville
Asbury United Methodist Church
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide [...]

A message given Sunday, May 13, 2007
by Rev. Scott Summerville
In each of us there is a hunger for a certain kind of love.
In each of us there is a craving for unconditional human love.
The love we experience most of the time has all kinds of strings attached:
I will love you, if [...]