© 2024, Dr. Tamilio Jesus was crucified for sedition, for being a traitor against the state. The Jewish leaders saw him as a threat to the religious power they held, so they convinced Pilate that he was going to lead a political rebellion. After all, his followers referred to him as a “king.” When Jesus […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio Who is the greatest? This is what the disciples argued about one day, and Jesus called them on it. Jesus tells them that whoever wants to be first must be a servant of all. He uses a child — one that had no status […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio After Jesus asks the disciples who they think he is, Peter gives the correct answer. But then, once Jesus tells them what will happen next — that he “must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes […]
Lord God, We come before you this day planted firmly in our faith and our hearts full of wonder as we imagine how your Word will nourish us this morning and move us to fully embrace our calling as your disciples. With the summer behind us — a time of rest and rejuvenation — we […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio Here we are: a new program year for our church. There are so many opportunities for us: opportunities to think outside the box, opportunities to grow. I do not mean that we have to do things differently for the sake of doing them differently, […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio This is it. The last hurrah. Labor Day weekend. The summer is officially over. Those of us who are here today didn’t go away for the weekend. We’ll be going home to mow, and paint, and clean, and organize, and all those other things […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio I Put on the whole armor of God. When I hear that verse from Ephesians, I think of the hymn that we are going to sing in just a bit: “Onward Christian Soldiers.” This hymn doesn’t appear in our hymnal, nor is it published […]
The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor My Dad died eight years ago yesterday. Of course, I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately. I have not been thinking about the lessons he taught me. I haven’t been thinking about his accomplishments. I haven’t been thinking about the life he provided us or the love […]
© 2024, Dr. Tamilio Even though there is a “Good Shepherd” Sunday on the liturgical calendar, readings about Christ as the Good Shepherd (including that much beloved Psalm 23) appear from time to time throughout all three years of the cycle. Today is one of those days. I was recently listening to Dr. Charles Stanley […]
We’ve got four things to cover today. Let’s begin at the beginning. Baptism. When we baptize anyone — a child, a teen, or an adult — we are welcoming them into the wider Church, the body of Christ, which includes all Christian churches: Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox believers. We are all one in Christ, as […]