A Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Rhonda Abbott Blevins Senior Pastor, Chapel by the Sea, Clearwater Beach FL Read the Lectionary Texts Are you seeing red? Have you noticed the red paraments and the pastors’ flashy red stoles? Even the choir is donned in red! It’s Pentecost Sunday, traditionally the only Sunday of the year when churches get all decked out in red. It’s one of my favorite Sundays of the Christian year, because, well, I’m a “winter,” and I look good in red! Today we celebrate the birthday of the worldwide church. Today we remember how the Holy [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts   Today, I want to invite you to heaven - well, to talk about heaven, and learn about heaven, and maybe even experience heaven. Our church family has gone through a number of deaths this past week, so we’ve got heaven on our mind these days. And today is the Sunday after the Christian festival of the Ascension. If you have ever gone to the Holy Land, you no doubt visited the Church of the Ascension, which is a little cylinder-shaped chapel on the top of the Mount of Olives. The church is built on [READ MORE]