Wellshire Presbyterian Church Sermon Archive

In her sermon Creeping Separateness, the Rev. Dr. Pattie Kitchen briefly revisits the passionate text of Revelation and wrestles with the concept of difficult love and anemic love -- spiritual and human. Robert Munsch's Love You Forever, a book treasured by parents and children alike, provides a springboard for the sermon.

Countless times in Seuss and Scripture, we are admonished to stop being stubborn and LISTEN. In listening, we find ways to get un-budged in our tracks and step sideways, unlike... The Zax.

This is Dr. Bells last sermon in the Seuss series, which ends next Sunday with The Zax. This sermon begins with a general reflection of the work of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) before focusing on the vexing figure of The Grinch. Dr. Bell talks about the Grinchs transformation and the character strength of The Whos.

Like the Great Commission, Dr. Seuss makes the assumption that we WILL go into the world, that it will not be easy, and that we will face dangers and toils, but that ultimately we will be triumphant. Christ calls us into the world to places of need, places of hopelessness, and places of pain and loneliness. Oh, the Places You WILL Go!

In this sermon, Dr. Bell uses Dr. Seusss story of The Sneetches to talk about the evil of racial segregation but then moves on from there to discuss other ways that we create unhealthy walls or barriers. In contrast, he makes the point that God desires unity, for in Christ, there is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for we are all one.

In this short homily, Dr. Bell suggests that The Cat in the Hat Comes Back leans on the spread of pink communism, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear disaster. However, the main lesson for us today is to find the God-given courage to live in spite of our fear.

This sermon draws a couple of important Christian lessons from Horton Hears a Who!. The first is about the importance of learning to act on what we hear from those in need or distress the second is learning to say you are sorry when you are to blame and to confess your sins to God.

In this sermon, Dr. Bell mines Dr. Seusss book The Lorax for applicable lessons about greed, waste and consumerism, as well as Christian faith.

This sermon seeks to define The Good News of the Gospel in terms of joyous victory. Several definitions of The Gospel and pertinent Bible stories are shared by Dr. Bell. The sermon includes a humorous story about church softball.

Messianic Monarchy is a sermon based on I Samuel 8, the passage in which the people of Israel request a king. Dr. Bell suggests that the main difficulty here was a failure to listen to God, as he exhorts faithful Christians to listen only to God.