Worship/Sermons | Cove Presbyterian Church

Whithersoever

Text: Matthew 8:18-22 Before I started this sermon, I went to the laundry room, grabbed a rag, got some Pledge and started dusting. I...

When an Old Story is Not

Text: Genesis 50:15-21 15 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us...

Gloria or Requiem?

Texts: Exodus 15:1b-11; Romans 14:1-12 “It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in...

Maybe

Matthew 16:21-28 Scott Peck recalls the story of a monastery that had fallen upon hard times. He writes: “Once a great order, as a result...

Breakfast with Jesus

Text: John 6:24-35 Only recently have I been able to listen again to the inspired music of Les Miserables. Between taking my children and...

The Gloria Within

Text: Romans 12:9-18 For the list lovers among us, we’ve got a friend in the Apostle Paul. For eleven dense, complex chapters, Paul...

A God Who Won't Give Up

Text: Matthew 13:1-9 Tradition calls this “The parable of the Sower.” Most sermons, though, preach this story as the “parable of the...

For Freedom's Sake

[The sermon today is told in the first person from the vantage point of Philemon, a friend of the Apostle Paul. Paul writes to Philemon...

The Empire of God

Text: Matthew 13:31-32 I love word puzzles. Not that I am particularly skilled at solving them, but I love them anyway. That is surely...

Seeing Through Walls

Text: Acts 10:1-15 This Wall is not composed of a lovely stack of stones surrounding a flower garden. This Wall is a huge construction of...