Rev. Timothy J. Ensworth
TRUTH (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ecclesiastes 11:1-8
November 19, 2017
What is the truth?
The Trump administration claimed that the crowd attending his January 21 inauguration was the largest ever to witness the inauguration of an American president and when news outlets published photos proving otherwise, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, labeled them as deliberately misleading.… Continue reading ...
Plain and simple (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ecclesiastes 7:1-10
October 22, 2017
It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all.
Sounds rather Eeyore-ish, doesn’t it? You remember Eeyore?
Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.… Continue reading ...
For whether we live or whether we die (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Psalm 90:1-12
November 16, 2014
Teach us how short our life is,
so that we may become wise.
How short is our life?
We last no longer than a dream …
We are like a dream … vivid and real, while it lasts … full of wonders and marvels, while it lasts … but when the dawn comes, when we are awakened, the dream is gone, remembered maybe for a short while, but soon forgotten.… Continue reading ...
Today is the day! (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
June 21, 2015
Life goes on. Life goes on and we settle into a rhythm. A daily rhythm, a weekly rhythm, a rhythm of seasons and of years. A rhythm of sleeping and waking, eating and exercising, working and playing, spending time alone and spending time with others. … Continue reading ...
This is the king (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Luke 23:33-43
November 20, 2016
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
What did he want? He wanted to be remembered. He didn’t want to be forgotten. He had made a mess of his life and he knew it, but he didn’t want to be forgotten, disappear from this earth as if he never existed, remembered by nobody, mattering to nobody.… Continue reading ...