by Rev. Madison Shockley | Feb 12, 2017 | sermons
Our reading today is one of the most well known from the Hebrew text. It tells us of Moses’ words to the people as they were about to enter the promised land. The myth says that God told his people to go into Canaan and take it for themselves. As history has...
by Rev. Madison Shockley | Feb 5, 2017 | sermons
February is the beginning of Black History Month. Over the course of this month, we will explore the contributions of Blacks to our religious life. These contributions take many forms; breaching, biblical scholarship, liturgy, music, and social and spiritual...
by Rev. Madison Shockley | Jan 29, 2017 | sermons
Our reading today is typically known as “The Sermon on the Mount” or the “Beatitudes.” Scholars of the Jesus Seminar believe the true translation equivalent is not “blessed are…” but “congratulations.” These are...
by Rev. Madison Shockley | Jan 22, 2017 | sermons
After an eventful week, Rev. Shockley was inspired to speak on the subject of being evangelical. The word, evangelical, has received a bad reputation in today’s society. Let us not consider the word as it has come to be understood but as the dynamic and...
by Rev. Madison Shockley | Jan 15, 2017 | sermons
On the eve of our presidential inauguration, we consider the question of what would Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. say to the nation. Rev. Shockley uses King’s own words from his 1968 sermon titled The Drum Major Incident. King used passages from Mark in his...
by Rev. Madison Shockley | Jan 1, 2017 | sermons
According to the Oxford dictionary, the word of the year for 2016 is post-truth. We are in a world where the truth no longer matters. The concept was introduced in 2005 by the comedian, Stephen Colbert. He called it, truthiness. He explains it as the belief in what...
