Sermons from March 2024

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3-24-2024 “Hope in Hopeless Times” Mark 11:1-11 Palm Sunday

© 2024, Dr. Tamilio So here is the Palm Sunday sermon.  The one I have given many times over the past twenty-five years, the same one many a preacher will deliver today.  Jesus enters Jerusalem triumphantly as the King of kings and Lord of lords.  The atmosphere is festive.  It is a parade.  People yell […]

3-3-2024 “The Top Ten” (Exodus 20:1-17) ~ Lent III

Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor © 2024, Dr. Tamilio These are the big ten.  The top ten.  The Ten Commandments.  No, not the Cecil B. DeMille film starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner.  These are ten — the emblematic, key laws that the Israelites are to follow.  There are actually 613 commandments in all of […]

3-10-2024 “Life Abundant” (John 3:14-21) ~ Lent IV

Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor 2024, Dr. Tamilio If you made a list of the most popular and the most memorized Scripture passages, John 3:16 would probably be at the top.  Millard J. Erickson agrees, writing, “Of numerous biblical references, John 3:16 is probably the best known.”[1]  Even nonbelievers know that it begins, “For God […]

3-17-2024 “Habitus” (Jeremiah 31:31-34) ~ Lent V

Dr. John Tamilio III, Pastor  © 2024, Dr. Tamilio One of the great philosophers in antiquity is Aristotle.  His teacher was Plato.  Plato’s teacher was Socrates.  Aristotle became the tutor to Alexander the Great.  Suffice it to say, Aristotle is a rock star as far as philosophy goes.  He is part of an intellectual lineage […]