We are One

by | May 22, 2023 | Sermons

We are One Acts 1:6-14 & John 17:1-11 May 21, 2023 Seventh Sunday of Easter Jane Shelton, CRE We’re all very familiar with the chant, “We’re Number One,” “We’re Number One,” right? We associate that cheer most often at sports events that we are involved with when...

Finding Your Way

by | May 8, 2023 | Sermons

Easter / Graduation Recognition Sunday May 7, 2023 1 Peter 2:2-10 / John 14:1-14 Jane Shelton, CRE My Daddy taught me to read a map at a very young age.  Now some of you may not know what a map is, so I brought a sample.  Being the youngest of four, my place in the...

The Beginning of Wisdom

by | Apr 17, 2023 | Sermons

The Beginning of Wisdom Second Sunday of Easter April 16, 2023 Jane Shelton, CRE   Someone told me once, that confusion is on the way to understanding.  My initial response was, “What?”  What does that even mean?  Eventually, I came to understand that when...

Preach and Testify

by | Apr 10, 2023 | Sermons

Preach and Testify Resurrection of the Lord/Easter Sunday April 9, 2023 Matthew 28:1-10 / Acts 10:34-43 Jane Shelton, CRE Alleluia!  Christ is risen!  Christ is risen, indeed!  What a glorious and joyous Easter morning to be celebrating the resurrection of our Lord,...

Open the Gates & Rejoice

by | Apr 3, 2023 | Sermons

Open the Gates & Rejoice Palm Sunday April 2, 2023 Jane Shelton, CRE This day in our story started out like any other day during the festival season in Jerusalem.  However, unlike any other time before, this day would be different. I’ve tried to imagine, exactly...

Seeing is Believing

by | Mar 20, 2023 | Sermons

Seeing Is Believing Fourth Sunday in Lent March 19, 2023 Today, the stories continue on Jesus’ journey with the disciples toward Easter, and like the last two we have considered over the last two Sundays, this one does not disappoint.  The scripture in the bulletin...

Ripe for Harvesting

by | Mar 13, 2023 | Sermons

Ripe for Harvesting Third Sunday of Lent John 4:5-42 March 12, 2022 Jane Shelton, CRE   Have you ever been around someone that you could listen to all day?  I always get the impression that Jesus was one of those people. We can only imagine what it must have been...

Faith

by | Mar 6, 2023 | Sermons

Faith Second Sunday of Lent Psalm 121 / John 3:1-17 March 6, 2023 Jane Shelton, CRE   If you have been reading your daily Lenten devotionals this week provided at our Ash Wednesday service, you will have seen the header on each of the day’s reading, “examining...

Prophetic Message

by | Feb 22, 2023 | Sermons

  Prophetic Message Transfiguration Sunday February 19, 2023 Jane Shelton, CRE We all have tales to tell, regardless of what age we are, and as we grow older, there are more stories to share with our loved ones.  Children anxiously sit around their grandparents...

Living in Harmony

by | Feb 14, 2023 | Sermons

Living in Harmony Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Psalm 119:1-8 1 Cor 3:1-9 Growing up there was a lot of harmony in our home, loving parents and siblings, working together in the garden, playing card games and board games on a rainy Sunday afternoon, tending the garden...

Running the Relay

by | Feb 6, 2023 | Sermons

Running the Relay February 5, 2023 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Matthew 5:13-20 Jane Shelton, CRE I’m sure you all remember those school relay races in your P.E. classes. Remember those? You had to race the other team, passing off a baton from one person to the next as...

Light of All Nations

by | Jan 9, 2023 | Sermons

Light of All Nations Baptism of the Lord Isaiah 42:1-9 Acts 10:34-43 January 8, 2023 Jane Shelton, TRE   I think I would be remiss if I did not mention or at least recognize this past week’s day of Epiphany.   Growing up without the knowledge of the liturgical...

Season of Change

by | Jan 3, 2023 | Sermons, Uncategorized

Season of Change First Sunday after Christmas First Presbyterian Valdosta January 1, 2023 Happy New Year! Are you loving those words this morning following a joyous Christmas with family and friends? Or are those words a little heavy this morning…a little uncertain...

Advent Love

by | Dec 19, 2022 | Sermons

Advent Love Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; December 18, 2022 Fourth Sunday of Advent Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Matthew 1:18-25   Do you ever fall asleep while wrestling with a problem that is weighing on your heart? And then you wake up with the answer? This often...

Advent Joy

by | Dec 12, 2022 | Sermons

Advent Joy Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; December 11, 2022 Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 1:46-55   This is the 3rd Sunday of Advent, or “Rose Sunday,” as it is sometimes called, because of the rose-colored candle of the Advent wreath instead of the...

Advent Peace

by | Dec 5, 2022 | Sermons

Advent Peace Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; December 4, 2022 2nd Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13   On this second Sunday of Advent, we continue our journey to Bethlehem. To guide us, again we turn to the Isaiah, the prophet and poet of light. In a...

Advent Hope

by | Nov 28, 2022 | Sermons

Advent Hope Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; November 27, 2022 First Sunday of Advent Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14   Something extraordinary is on the horizon. We can feel it in the air. We can see it all around us. Last week, we gathered to celebrate Christ the...

The New Kingdom

by | Nov 14, 2022 | Sermons

The New Kingdom Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; November 13, 2022 23rd Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 21:5-19 When I think of beautiful buildings, churches always come to mind. I have been blessed to serve as pastor of three beautiful churches—each lovely...

God of the Living

by | Nov 7, 2022 | Sermons

God of the Living Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; November 6, 2022 All Saints’ Day Worship Service Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21; Luke 20:27-38 In the early Christian tradition, to mark the anniversary of a martyr’s death, saints’ days were celebrated on the day of the saint’s...
A Legacy of Faith[i]

A Legacy of Faith[i]

by | Oct 31, 2022 | Sermons

A Legacy of Faith[i] Rev. Dr. Glenda Hollingshead; October 30, 2022 21st Sunday after Pentecost; Reformation Sunday Psalm 119:137-144; 2 Thessalonians 1:2-4, 11-12   “A Legacy of Faith” was created in 2021 by Presbyterian pastor, Rev. Carol Holbrook Pricket as a...