Rev. Timothy J. Ensworth
Irony (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Luke 19:28-40
April 14, 2019
We stand at the head of Holy Week, a week that begins with hosannas of Palm Sunday and ends with the hallelujahs of Easter, a journey from joy to joy.
But it is not an easy journey. We get from here to there, we can only get from here to there, by way of Maundy Thursday, by way of the shock and betrayal and abandonment of Maundy Thursday. … Continue reading ...
Terrified (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Mark 16:8
April 1, 2018
They went out and ran from the tomb, distressed and terrified. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
It would have been easier if they had found what they were looking for. It would have been easier if they had found the lifeless body of Jesus right where it had been laid just two days before.… Continue reading ...
Still running the race of faith (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Hebrews 12:1-2
Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
March 11, 2018
Happy anniversary!
We are glad to be invited to help you celebrate the 27th anniversary of Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. We were here two years ago on a Sunday morning to celebrate your 25th anniversary. … Continue reading ...
A public witness (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Matthew 10:32-33
June 25, 2017
Bay of St Columba
In the Bay of St Columba on the Isle of Iona,
The stones remember Columba and the monks
Who followed him in trust to work and pray.
With the constant arrival and exit of cold salty waves,
Which daily invade the beach and flee back out to sea,
Smoothed rocks covering the sand sing and chant,
“Where have you gone, dear friend?… Continue reading ...
Faithless servants (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Matthew 24:36-51
April 6, 2014
I want to begin where I ended last Sunday, talking about witness, because that’s what this is all about … witness.
We are the body of Christ in this world. We are Christ in this world. When the people of this world look at us, what do they see? … Continue reading ...
May the Lord spare you an untested faith (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 22:1-14
June 29, 2014
Some time later God tested Abraham …
God tested Abraham? Why? Hasn’t he been tested enough already?
Asked to leave home, family, everything that was familiar, to go to a new land that God would show him …
Made a promise of many descendants, but waiting and waiting, waiting until he was a very old man before Isaac, the son of the promise, was born …
Already having to give up one son, already losing Ishmael …
Why test Abraham again?… Continue reading ...