Sermons by James Adelman
Pentecost Makes All the Difference
Pentecost is one of the three great festivals of the church year (Christmas and Easter are the other two). It marks the birthday of the New Testament Church and the great harvest of souls won by Christ. The Church is dressed in red to remind us of the tongues of fire atop the disciples’ heads, as well as the blood of the martyrs, which was the seed of the church. Join us, because Pentecost Makes All the Difference! See you…
Good Friday 2026
Good Friday Tenebrae (darkness) is not a funeral for Jesus, but a solemn service of repentance and reflection. Candles are extinguished as lights are dimmed, until we are in Tenebrae –symbolizing the fading of Jesus’ life and the darkness which covered the earth from Noon until 3:00 pm on Good Friday. In the darkness, at the end of the service, the Christ Candle leaves the sanctuary for a time, but is never extinguished. Jesus, the Light of the World, could…
A Champion for the Defeated
In ancient times, instead of two armies battling it out and losing so many lives, each army would choose one soldier to fight for the entire battle; a battle to the death. The survivor is named the champion! We can think of David and Goliath as an example. But the very first battle ever fought was in the Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve sinned, the devil claimed that the children of men now belonged to him. But our…