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Make a Resolution of Faith for the New Year by Rev. Sherard Edington (The following is Sherard’s Worship Wilson column for the Wilson Post published on December 28, 2022.) The Greeks and Romans of ancient times worshiped a complex pantheon of gods and goddesses. The Greeks had their Olympians such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and Ares. […]
What Makes Christmas Special by Rev. Sherard Edington (The following is Sherard’s Worship Wilson column for the Wilson Post published on December 22, 2022.) One year ago, on December 11, a pre-dawn tornado ripped through Mt. Juliet damaging over 100 homes. The Mt. Juliet Christmas parade scheduled for that day had to be postponed to […]
Learning to Walk by Faith by Rev. Sherard Edington (The following is Sherard’s Worship Wilson column for the Wilson Post published on November 3, 2022.) In the Bible, there is a sobering story of a woman who obtains healing from Jesus without him even knowing it. For twelve years, this woman had suffered from a […]
The Faith to Move Mountains by Rev. Sherard Edington (The following is Sherard’s Worship Wilson column for the Wilson Post published October 27, 2022.) On September 26—just a month ago—NASA did something extraordinary. They intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. They didn’t do this to be wasteful. It was an experiment to see if […]
Have you witnessed a miracle lately? Have you performed a miracle? In the pages of the New Testament, we read of Jesus raising the dead, casting out spirits, healing the sick, and feeding thousands with what he finds in some kid’s lunch box. Even the disciples performed miracles.
Sunday, May 15 will be my last day serving as the Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church. It has been a joy to serve this church the past three years, and I will always be thankful for the relationships we have built and the ways in which this church has supported my development as a congregational leader.
We all know the saying, “Time heals all wounds.” It is a comforting but misleading sentiment because some wounds will in fact kill us. In addition, there are wounds we don’t want to heal and so we pick at them obsessively and wallow in our pain.
Dear Friends, For Ash Wednesday this year, under the auspices of the Wilson County Ministerial Alliance for Race, I organized an “Ashes Drive-Thru” for the community. I enlisted ten pastors from Lebanon to stand in front of the Compassionate Hands Hope Center (just north of the Square) on Ash Wednesday to offer the ancient ritual […]
