By Rev. Scott Summerville ___________________________ The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville Mark 1:9-15 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, “You [...]

Transfiguration Sunday Mark 9:2-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, [...]

By Rev. Scott Summerville Mark 1: 40-45 A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him… The city of Karbala al-Muqaddasah, one of the holiest cities of Islam, lies approximately sixty miles [...]

By Rev. Scott Summerville A friend of mine was on a business trip last year. She was driving on a freeway near Dallas. She had to cut across four lanes of traffic in a short distance to make a left-hand turn off the freeway. As she tried to squeeze into the traffic another driver seemed [...]

by Rev. Scott Summerville Isaiah 40:21-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is God who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens [...]

by Rev. Scott Summerville Mark 1:14-16 I don’t want you to think that I’m looking for your sympathy, but I must tell you that I had to write two sermons this week. At the beginning of the week I read the Scriptures for today, and I was fascinated by the words of the apostle Paul [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” These are good words to ponder in this week of giving and receiving. “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” This is a notion that we officially subscribe to in Christian churches, but it is not necessarily one that [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; God has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners…” Isaiah 61:1 Yesterday was International Migrants Day. Some of you [...]

Rev. Scott Summerville Isaiah 64:1-9 We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. Yet, [...]