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  • Charles Scott

    Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
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St Paul
, Ohio
317 512 5404

About Charles
  • Education: Bachelor of Sacred Literature (4 yr degree) at the Cincinnati Bible Seminary. English and Drama graduate studies at the University of Evansville. Working on Doctorate from Trinity.
  • Experience: Ordained in 1958, have served 3 Christian Churches and 4 Anglican Churches as pastor. Have taught classes and served as Dean at St. Alban’s Center, a school that helps prepare men for ministry.
  • Comment to those looking at my sermons: That which is written in the Bible was intended to be understood by the readers, and was certainly understood by the authors. If we labor to understand the times and the language, we should be able to preach intelligible sermons.
  • Sermon or series that made a difference: Series on the Church as the Continuing Incarnation, the Christ of this time.
  • One of my favorite illustrations: God’s love for us as it is shown in the parable of Jesus regarding the Lost Coin, The Lost Sheep, and the Lost Boy.
  • Family: My 4 children are grown. My household consists of my wife Virginia and Duke the Beagle.
  • What my parents think of my sermons: Unfortunately, they were seldom in the same state where I served, and heard few of my sermons.
  • What my spouse (really) thinks of my sermons: The short ones are best (10-12 minutes).
  • Best advice given to me about preaching: In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities, and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a compacted conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility, a coalescent cogency, and a concatenated consistency. Eschew obfuscation and all conglomeration of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy, and vain vapid verbosity. In short: "Be brief and don’t use big words."
  • Books that have had an impact: N.T. Wright The Challenge of Jesus Teilhard de Chardin The Divine Milieu The Phenomenon of Man Early Church and Apostolic Fathers, especially I and II Clement Karl Barth - Church Dogmatics
  • Hobbies: Fishing, writing, computers.
  • If I could Preach one more time, I would say...: The first and great commandment is "Thou shalt Love the Lord God with all thy heart, soul and mind; and the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
  • Something funny that happened while preaching: In 1973 there was an ecumenical and evangelical movement called "Key '73". Churches in Cincinnati responded by inviting pastors to switch pulpits and also invite neighboring churches to share meetings for educational as well as inspirational purposes. We also shared outreach efforts. On one Sunday I was invited to deliver a sermon at a church where the pulpit was located 1/2 way to the ceiling , accessed by a winding staircase. After opening hymns and prayers, I ascended to the lofty pulpit and preached. After the Amen, I started to descend, but slipped, twisted an ankle and hobbled in pain to the floor and immediately hobbled out to my automobile and drove to a nearby hospital. As the practitioner in the emergency room was applying a bandage to strengthen the ankle, I explained that I had fallen out of a pulpit. His pithy remark, "Must have had to much communion wine."
  • What I want on my tombstone: Rest, Rest, Perterbed Spirit (from Hamlet)
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    Contributed on Aug 7, 2018
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    Modern advertisers proclaims cosmetics, surgical treatments, diets, exercises, pharmaceuticals and equipment will make one beautiful. The apostles and prophets in their writings and Jesus' brief sayings shows the way to the ultimate beauty mark.

    The Transfiguration of Christ 2018 Beauty Marks Luke 9 Transfiguration Day Prayer O GOD, who on the mount didst reveal to chosen witnesses thine only-begotten Son wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistering; Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the ...read more

  • Hidden In Marys Heart

    Contributed on Dec 20, 2017
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    Mary was an obedient, observant and a fleshly treasury for the graces of God. She treasured the words and deeds of Jesus in her heart and sang of the joy of sharing in the new birth available for all mankind and is an example to the church.

    ADVENT II Hid in Marys Heart Psalm 119 Luke 1__26   THY WORD HAVE I HID IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST GOD  Psalm 119:11- “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”  (NIV)  Mary, a daughter of David, may have reflected on this Psalm; especially ...read more

  • Learning From God's Providence

    Contributed on Jun 22, 2017
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    Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered. Similarly, St. Paul learned from the Christ that he had persecuted, the things he would suffer as He followed the Christ. Living the Christ life, we will see how suffering aids in redemption.

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  • Christian Spirituality On Trial___micah 6__1-8

    Contributed on Aug 27, 2016
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    For the entire past century and longer, the Christian view of spirituality has been on trial in this country. Before Christ was born Micah saw that his nation and every individual must find their real life, their spiritual life through trusting the Lord.

    CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY ON TRIAL___ TRINITY 14 Aug 2016 Micah 6__1-8 Prayer ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord. ...read more

  • A New Perspective On Life: Romans 13:8

    Contributed on Aug 14, 2016
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    "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience." Only the object and the subject have been changed in this observation, but the change in perspective is dramatic.Paul shows us a better view of life.

    A New Perspective on Life Propers for The First Sunday in Advent Isaiah 28:14-22 Psalm 46 ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in ...read more

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  • You Shall Be Clean

    Contributed on Dec 16, 2007
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    YOU SHALL BE CLEAN 2 KINGS 5__1—14 There was a commander from the land of Aram by the name of Naaman. He was a great warrior, brave and strong against the country’s foes. A great warrior, Naaman. He had oniy one problem, but a huge one—he was a leper. He had contracted that terrible ...read more