Tag: preaching
9.11
Posted: September 11, 2016 by Tamara Puffer
I have always hated our country dwelling on what happened on September 11, 2001. People are killed in much greater numbers every day -often by American’s own hands across the world – yet we Americans focus on the 2,996 Americans who died on that day. I was scheduled to preach at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in […]
Read more...Living Water
Posted: August 13, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
When I selected John 4 (The Woman at the Well) for a first-person sermon to preach at Circle of Mercy last year, I realized it refers to water. Whether it is a river, lake, ocean or a pool, it doesn’t matter to me. I love everything about water. Perhaps this is why I enjoy swimming […]
Read more...One wild and Precious Life.
Posted: April 24, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory, mental fatigue, preaching, resting brain, stress
At the Good Friday service at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, one of the speakers read from “The Summer day” a poem by Mary Oliver It really stuck with me and if you want to read it here’s the link: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html . I had heard it before but hearing it then was just the right time. She wrote, “Tell me, what is […]
Read more...Holy Week
Posted: March 31, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory, overstimulation, perfectionist, preaching, stress
Mark and Kristy lead a class on the Resurrection stories and art at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church (GCPC). In the first session, they laid out 15 paintings depicting the Resurrection in art. We were asked to look through them selecting the ones that drew us in. I saw glorious images of Jesus ascending into heaven […]
Read more...The Woman at the Well
Posted: May 2, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I preached my first person sermon on the woman at the well yesterday at Circle of Mercy. It went well. I had written it a couple of weeks ago but I wasn’t happy with it. I practiced it Saturday morning and it hit me what was wrong. I made some changes and it improved greatly. […]
Read more...Sermon
Posted: April 4, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I’m going to preach at Circle of Mercy congregation on May 1. As I wrote earlier, I like to preach but I never was able to get into a groove so writing a sermon is always difficult for me. A neuropsycologist once told me that I’d never be able to write them because of all […]
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