Sermons

Click the links below to view and download (pdf) sermons given at College Hill Presbyterian Church. Unless otherwise noted, sermons are written and given by Rev. Todd Freeman.

2025

March 30, 2025: In Between Lost & Found The Parables of the Lost Sheep & Lost Coin

March 23, 2025: In Between Rest & Growth ~ The Parable of the Fig Tree

March 16, 2025: In Between Faith & Works ~ The Story of Martha & Mary

March 9, 2025: In Between Stranger & Neighbor ~ The Parable of the Good Samaritan

March 2, 2025: On the Mountain and In the Valley ~ Transfiguration of the Lord Sunday

February 23, 2025: The Golden Rule and Love Your Enemies

February 16, 2025: Out in Deep Water

February 9, 2025: Ministry with “Outsiders”

February 2, 2025: On a Mission

January 19, 2025: Using Our Spiritual Gifts

January 12, 2025: Baptism: Relationships, Service, Purpose Baptism of the Lord Sunday

January 5, 2025: The Road Isn’t Straight Epiphany Sunday

2024

December 15, 2024: Do the Good That Is Yours To Do

December 8, 2024: We Can’t Go Alone

December 1, 2024: You Are a Blessing

November 24, 2024: A Progressive Approach to “Christ the King”

November 17, 2024: A Moment To Lament

November 3, 2024: Synergy: Lessons Learned from Nature

October 27, 2024: Cheerful Giving

October 20, 2024: Called to Service, Not ‘Lording It Over’

October 13, 2024: Biblical Financial Ethics

September 29, 2024: Feminist Perspectives

September 22, 2024: A Living Faith – Drawing Near to God

September 15, 2024: A Living Faith – Taming the Tongue

September 8, 2024: A Living Faith: Show No Partiality

August 25, 2024: Reclaiming the “Armor of God”

August 18, 2024: The Voice of Sophia: Live Wisely

August 11, 2024: A Checklist for Imitating God

August 4, 2024: Our Calling: Living a Worthy Life

July 28, 2024: Compassion: A Call to Action

July 21, 2024: Prioritizing Rest and Renewal

July 14, 2024: There’s a Risk in Speaking Truth to Power

July 7, 2024: Can inclusiveness become an idol?

June 30, 2024: Lovingkindness: Along the Way

June 23, 2024: Lovingkindness: All Around Us

June 9, 2024: A Dividing House? Fault Lines, Family, and Mission

June 2, 2024: Connecting with God Through Creation

May 19, 2024: It All Points To Pentecost

May 12, 2024: Reflections on the Celebration of Women

May 5, 2024: Expanding Our Circle of Inclusiveness

April 28, 2024: On Abiding Love & Grapevines

April 21, 2024: “Green Acres is the Place to Be” – Rev. Dr. Lisa Barnett

April 14, 2024: Belonging: Being a Community of Resurrection

April 7, 2024: Wandering Heart: Here’s my heart

March 31, 2024: A People of Hope (Easter Sunday)

March 28, 2024: Embracing a Servant Love for One Another (Maundy Thursday)

March 24, 2024: Wandering Heart: Songs of loudest praise (Palm/Passion Sunday)

March 17, 2024: Wandering Heart: Teach me “How often should I forgive…?”

March 10, 2024: Wandering Heart: I’m fixed upon it, “Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan!’”

March 3, 2024: Wandering Heart: Praise the mount, Jesus asks, “Who do you say I am?”

February 25, 2024: Wandering Heart: Rescue me from danger, Jesus and Peter walk on the Sea

February 11, 2024: Experiencing Jesus’ Transfiguration – and Ours

February 4, 2024: The Art of Waiting: A reflection upon what it means to “Wait for the Lord”

January 28, 2024: Knowledge: Yes / Love: Even More So “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.” 1 Cor. 8:1

January 21, 2024: “Follow Me” Is a Daily Choice

January 14, 2024: It May Be Lawful, But Is It Beneficial? Sexual Ethics in the 21st Century

January 7, 2024: How Does a Weary World Rejoice? We trust our belovedness. (Baptism of the Lord Sunday)

2023

December 24, 2023: How Does a Weary World Rejoice? We sing stories of hope. (Fourth Sunday in Advent)

December 17, 2023: How Does a Weary World Rejoice? We allow ourselves to be amazed. (Third Sunday in Advent)

December 3, 2023: How Does a Weary World Rejoice? We acknowledge our weariness. (First Sunday in Advent)

November 26, 2023: “Am I Still a Christian?” It depends on how you define ‘Christian’

November 19, 2023: This is NOT a Stewardship Sermon, Interpreting the Parable of the Talents

November 5, 2023: Overcoming ‘All Talk and No Action’ (Commitment Sunday)

October 22, 2023: The Celtic Branch of Christianity: The Interrelatedness of the Sacred and the Secular

October 15, 2023: Navigating “Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry”

October 1, 2023: Experiencing & Extending Peace (World Communion Sunday / Peace & Global Witness Offering)

September 24, 2023: When God’s Generosity Seems Unfair (Jonah / The Parable of the Vineyard Workers)

September 17, 2023: Sow, and Sow Again (The Parable of the Sower)

September 10, 2023: Forgive, and Forgive Again “How often should I forgive?” Matthew 18:21

Quotes on Forgiveness

September 3, 2023: Loving One Another is the Debt We Owe

August 27, 2023: Transformation Involves a Renewed Mind “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds…” Romans 12:2

August 20, 2023: Let Your Voice Be Heard (The Story of the Canaanite Woman)

August 13, 2023: Get In the Boat / Get Out of the Boat

August 6, 2023: A Call to Compassion: “You give them something…” (The Feeding of the 5000)

July 30, 2023: Weeds & Wheat: Both/And Not Either/Or, The Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat

July 16, 2023: Every Living Things Need Community

July 9, 2023: Every Living Thing Needs Shelter

July 2, 2023: Called To Freedom (4th of July Weekend)

June 18, 2023: From Suffering to Hope

April 9, 2023: Seeking: Who Are You Looking For? (Easter Sunday)

April 2, 2023: Seeking: Where Are You Headed? (Palm Sunday)

March 26, 2023: Seeking: Can These Bones Live? The Valley of the Dry Bones; Raising of Lazarus

March 19, 2023: Seeking: Who Sinned? The Man Born Blind

March 12, 2023: Seeking: Will You Give Me a Drink? The Samaritan Woman at the Well

March 5, 2023: Seeking: How Do We Begin Again?

February 26, 2023: Seeking: Who Will You Listen To? (First Sunday in Lent)

February 19, 2023: The Mountaintops and Valleys of Life (Transfiguration of the Lord Sunday)

February 12, 2023: The Letter of the Law / The Spirit of the Law (Anger, Lust, Divorce, Oaths, Retaliation, Love of Enemies)

February 5, 2023: Turn on the Light, and Pass the Salt “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.” Matt. 5:13, 14

January 29, 2023: Listening and Responding to Jesus’ Call? Ordination & Installation of Ruling Elders

January 15, 2023: Living into our ‘Mission Statement’ (Through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”) “Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Proverbs 29:18a – KJV

January 8, 2023: New Beginnings / Letting Go (Baptism of the Lord Sunday)

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