When Walls Shift And The Ceiling Collapses

Pride has an insidious quality. It germinates a healthy self-confidence. Then, if left to grow, unchecked and unexamined, it spreads and transforms into the worship of self…. Pride deludes us into thinking we are God’s equal.
— from the chapter “Pride is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life”

In this collection of sermons for the final weeks of the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C, the reader will find the common theme of “living through difficult times of maximal change.”

In When Walls Shift and the Ceiling Collapses, Cueni lets the text shape the sermon in some cases, while in others, lets the assigned gospel reading serve as a springboard for moving in a different direction. These messages may be helpful in a variety of ways:

Commentary and illustrations

Group or individual Bible study

Weekly personal devotions

Sermon titles included in this volume are:

The Joy of a Thankful Heart

Pride is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

“Gotcha” Questions from Mean-Spirited People”

Many others based on the gospel texts in Pentecost