Sermons from December 2024

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12-24-2024 Christmas Eve

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III  Christmas Eve Sermon/Message Christmas Eve has a feeling like no other night: an aura of intense expectation envelopes everything.  It isn’t just the anticipation of children expecting brightly wrapped packages that will fill the space beneath the tree, or stockings bursting at the seams that will be hung by […]

12-15-2024 ~ Advent III: Joy (Year C) “So. Much. Joy.”

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2024, Dr. Tamilio I hate being sick.  My wife always tells me to never use the word “hate.”  Sorry.  I completely and absolutely and thoroughly despise being sick. I cannot remember the last time I was this sick.  (I’m still stuffed up if you haven’t noticed.)  I […]

12-1-2024 “Hope for the World” ~ Advent I: Hope (Year C) Luke 21:25-36

The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2024, Dr. Tamilio Many of the circles that I move within — both pastoral and academic, both theological and philosophical — these circles believe that in order for us to all get along, we need to find a least common denominator religion: in other words, we need […]