"I greatly appreciate the variety of homilies, etc. that are available on your web site. You have many that truly relate the Word of the Lord to the needs of our people TODAY. The language used is also generally understandable to most of our parishioners. These factors are very important to my husband and I as we generally write his homilies together. Thank you again and many blessings." - Sam, RC Deacon (dcans2@email.msn.com)
"I would like to renew my participation in your excellent and very helpful homily preparation service. I really enjoy the wide variety of materials and appreciate all the research that goes into this. Many thanks and please renew my subscription. Thank you." - Bob, RC priest (RFlick644@aol.com)
"I continue to be grateful for your site. You have put together a wonderful, interesting collection of resources for preachers across denominational lines and theological persuasions. Thanks!" - Bill, Lutheran Pastor (WRF610@aol.com)
"Please renew my subscription for the next two years. I am most pleased and appreciative of this site... it has been a tremendous help and inspiration to me. I wish to take advantage of the discount you are providing although the new rate is still at a bargain basement price. " - Tim, PCUSA Pastor (MSLC@prodigy.net)
"I really do enjoy the variety on your site and use it every week. The illustrations are worth the price of membership alone. Keep up the holy work. God Bless." - Bill, RC Deacon (bhgraham@epix.net)
"I wish to renew my membership when it falls due. I find your site most useful in my preaching ministry (particularly your own sermons). I especially like the little stories. Since finding your site I have had more feedback to my sermons than ever before (I must be doing something right!). Keep up the good work. May I take this opportunity to wish you all God's blessings in your work." - Milo, RC Priest (mguiry@eircom.net)
"I think my membership is due for renewal on March 1st. I most definitely wish to renew my membership for 2001! I find your web site/service most helpful in the preparation of my Sunday homilies. I especially like the many appropriate stories that are available, and the different thoughts and ideas that you gather together and make readily accessible. Since I have started using your site (a number of years at this stage!), I get many comments/questions each week about my homily. That tells me that the members of my congregation are now listening and my words are striking a chord! And of course your service is most valuable resource for me. Many thanks for the service you provide, keep up the good work. May the good Lord bless you in your ministry and always keep you and yours close to him. (It was great seeing your family photograph! I can now put face to the name!!)" - Milo, RC Priest mguiry@eircom.net)
"Dear Sil, Thanks for notifying me about my renewal. I use your resources a lot and the members of my parish usually look forward to my homilies and stories. It is your web site that makes my homilies better than I could ever do on my own." - Tom, RC Deacon (metom@aol.com)
"We just want to let you know how much we enjoy your site and how helpful it has been in stimulating our theological thinking and sermon preparation. It is a real bargain! Clearly it is a labor of love for you, and we are happy to share in the fruits of your labors. Thank you for your commitment to offer many different theological perspectives. It is a great benefit for all." DJS and JJS, ELCA pastors (jspastors@sleepyeyetel.net)
"I really value your web site. Because of it I have dropped a half a dozen subscriptions to various preaching journals. Thanks for all you do." - Mike J., ELCA pastor (MJohnson22@woh.rr.com)
"Thank you for your help getting me back into the system. I'm able to access the page without difficulties now. Secondly, would you please just use the credit card information you have on file to renew my subscription when it comes due March 1st? I must say, this is the best $39.95 I've spent since ordination. Thanks so much for this service." - Philip (RC Priest)(kanfush@acad1.stvincent.edu)
Thanks for your great ministry; look forward to another year of using your site. I appreciate the "illustrated" separation very much. Often all I am looking for is a joke or a story that I can use to start off my own homily. In fact, I look for your homily first because I know there will be always be some stories for illustrations, so you yourself are one of my favorites!" - Jack, RC Priest (jpk@familyintervention.com)
"I would like to renew my membership to your service. You do a fantastic job. Just know that it is deeply appreciated, and that you are on the cutting edge of real new ministry in our church. May God continue to bless you in your work." - James, RC Priest (stmary@on-ramp.net)
"Please renew my subscription for a year - I'm not sure when the last one expires, and want to make sure I'm not cut off! Your site is an invaluable tool in my sermon preparations!" - Anne, ELCA Pastor (zion@detex.net)
"Please renew my subscription to your web site. I have found that your web site is one of the very best for homiletic preparation. Your web site and your diaconal ministry have proven to be a great grace and support to me in the vital role of proclaimer of the Word." - Charles, RC priest (priest@cyberzone.net)
"I have enjoyed and utilized your homiletic site extensively these last couple of years. I use it mainly to find illustrations and examples for ideas I develop on my own. I am always intrigued by the many different perspectives and interpretations of the scriptures that are available. It's definitely broadened my understanding of God's Word and enhanced my preaching. Thanks for your efforts!" - David, RC priest (FrDavidLies@aol.com)
"I dabble with doing a web site for my office and know how much work and time goes into one. You would be justified in increasing the membership fees. You have an excellent site and glad you are on the net. I am a church lay leader and Sunday School Teacher. I occasionally need reference materials and know I can always find them on your site. May you be richly blessed in your efforts to spread the word." - Larry, Just a Layman (SHARLARR@aol.com)
"Please renew my subscription and keep up the great work. You easily have the best lectionary sermon site on the net." - Thomas, ELCA Pastor (tlyberg@fulton-net.com)
"Once again, God bless you in your ministry. For those of us out here in the field with no bookstores and no resources except the computer, you are a real gift." - Elyn, Episcopal Priest (macinnis@public.east.net.cn)
"Sil, Please renew my membership. I find this resource of exceptional value. Your prayers of the faithful are in continual use. May the Holy Spirit continue blessing you!" - John, RC Deacon (jhmac@escape.ca)
"Thanks for a great site. God is blessing many people through your ministry." - Al, Episcopal Priest (awmajkrzak@iconnect.net)
"I remain so grateful for your web site which is not just a resource, its a veritable treasure trove of ideas, thought starters and all sorts of first class inspiration which I value highly. Thank you Deacon Sil." - John, Episcopal priest (revjohn@mac.com)
"I would like to take this opportunity to say that I have found your site extremely helpful in the past. As with all ministers I am busy and when funerals and other unexpected events continually happen, it is great to have a resource like yours. I have missed it since my last subscription expired. Thank you so much for the effort you put into a great site. It's a blessing." - Gayle, Uniting Church in Australia (Gmcclimont@helpinghand.org.au)
"I am glad I subscribed! You have a wonderful web site. Keep up the good work!" - Jim, RC Deacon (jmeucci@msn.com)
"You are the greatest! I love your site and recommend it to others. I got asked at the last minute to fill in for someone. I was without most of my resources because I am between calls and they are packed in boxes. Thanks to your quick response, the bulletin is done and there will be a sermon Sunday! Shalom!" - Sandy, PC(USA) Pastor (SSNewmann@compuserve.com)
"I want to encourage you to continue offering this site to those of us out in the wilderness. I am also an RC deacon. As you are well aware our theological training is not comparable to our priest friends as well as our ministerial friends from other faiths. Therefore we need that little extra inspiration that this site provides. Although I certainly don't always agree with the path some of these homilies take, I find a morsel here or there that provides me the inspiration I need. I especially appreciate the 'classics'. It is very humbling to know that men and women far greater than I ever hope to be, have and are preaching on the very same scripture that I am. Please keep it coming, $39.95 is still a bargain." - Jack, RC Deacon (jnicklay@means.net )
"I have really enjoyed your web site. It is a blessing and has given me many good ideas. I am entering the United Methodist Church Ministry in North Central Kansas and will be appointed to my first Charge July 1. Your web site will be an excellent reference for me. God Bless You." - Ross, UMC Pastor (rolson@iname.com)
"Thanks a million, Sil. You have a great site which has been a real help to me." - Bob, RC Deacon (2835190228@home.com)
"One of the strongest points of your website is your categorical subdivision of lectionary resources. We started with Richard Fairchild's site, upon the recommendation of a Toronto clergy friend, and have found it very good. But most of my wife's internet research is aimed at specific lectionary selections and you've got the perfect answer to that..." - Henry, spouse of UMC Pastor (HandM@avci.net)
"This service of yours has been a life-saver to me, especially at the end of a busy week when I just haven't been able to get anything satisfactory working in my head with regards to a homily. I find I can always get some ideas from your site. I do appreciate the work you put into this. Thanks and God bless!" - Rory (rodiz@wave.co.nz)
"Sil, your sermon resources are a blessing! This is quite a ministry. I am grateful to God for what you do. Again, let me know if the card you have on file doesn't not go through." - John, ELCA Pastor (Propst@perigee.net)
"Deacon Sil, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your website for inspiration. The Lord opened a door when I was searching one day and I found you. Your website is wonderful and I have recommended it to clergy and lay persons. God bless you and your family. Peace." Edith, Episcopalian Priest (Edithgraby@aol.com)
"Dear Sil, your online service is truly a Godsend! As I renew my subscription, I just want to offer my thanks! I have no doubt that you have helped me to GREATLY improve the quality of my preaching!" - Steve, RC Priest (Kacka@aol.com)
"I am thankful for all the links and information and messges that are at my fingertips as I study the texts each week. Stories and illustrations that others use are great too. I am a Lay Minister called to serve with a Pastor at 3 rural churches and the study and insights I receive from all are invaluable in delivering a message each week. God bless you for the time and energy that goes into organizing a site like this. Thanks so much." - Connie, ELCA (conraess@diodecom.net)
"I just want to tell you how wonderful this site is! What a tremendous gift you have given pastors. I use something every week. I love reading all the different views and takes on each passage. I spend waaaay too much time looking at all you have to offer. THANK YOU!" - Kelley, UMC Pastor (kelleyr@mail.ap.net)
"Sil, It's not that I don't want you to have the extra ten bucks to build up a wonderful ministry; and it's not that what you offer right now isn't worth paying more for; it's just that I'm as cheap as the day is long and my treasurer would not be interested in taking on this expense! Please extend my membership 'til 2003 at the current rate. Your ministry makes my ministry do-able. Thanks so much!" - Brian, UMC Pastor (Rotachb@aol.com)
"I just wanted to thank you for the great job you're doing. I am a student at Memphis Theological Seminary and a local pastor for two small United Methodist churches. Your site has provided the resources for me to spend more time studying and pastoring because I can find most of what I need to handle the message each week just by following the links you provide. Maybe one of these days I will have the courage and ability to produce a message entirely on my own, but for right now I read everything that's available and sort of pick and choose the parts that seem to apply to my situation. I always seem to come up with a few ideas and illustrations from my own life and thinking, but without seeing what others are doing I'm not sure I would be able to get started. Having so many resources on one site is much better than just having to surf the net everywhere to try and find something. This may sound corny, but know that you are loved and your ministry is appreciated by people you will never meet." - Jerry, UMC Pastor (jlsalley@gmi.net)
"I just wanted you to know how much your website has blessed my ministry. I am a new member and have already found your variety and depth of resources to be quite helpful. I work as a hospital chaplain. When I have searched other sites on the internet, I have found it difficult to locate sermon preparation materials that relate directly to the kind of populations hospital chaplains serve. Your website offers me a lot of relevant material in one location. Thank you for providing this service to ministers and other church leaders. Peace and blessings." - Rev. Juanita Scott radicalrev@mindspring.com
"Thanks for the great work you do. Your site is a godsend to those who value good preaching." - Dan, RC Priest (dfs@bge.net)
"May the Lord bless your ministry, one which has been of great benefit both to myself in preaching the Word and, I sincerely hope, to those of my flock who have heard it." - Jim, Anglican Priest (revjim@telusplanet.net)
"I really benefit from your service and attribute much of the success of my preaching to having good illustrations for the scriptures. I also benefit in that my preparation and the scriptural background enhances my spiritual development. May Our Lord continue to bless you, your family and your work." - Gene, RC Priest (grow-1@asbank.com)
"Your site amazingly keeps getting better. Great job!! God Bless!!" - Paul, RC Deacon (PTurekSr@MSN.com)
"I simply want to send you a big THANK YOU! Each week, I pray over the Scripture readings for the upcoming Sunday Mass, and I seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit. When I have a sense of where to go with the homily, I'm able to find so much help in your web site, from stories and illustrations to outlines and opening statements, from humor to closing statements. In the brief one year that I've been ordained a priest in the Catholic Church, I haven't found a better source of homiletical help. Peace to you and yours, and thanks tons!" - Todd, RC Priest (toddv95@juno.com)
"I really appreciate your hard work, and I like the changes that have taken place in the past year. I know it takes a lot of work, and once you've committed to it, you can't really stop or take a break from it at all. You may work out of your home, but you are even more tied to your work than someone who shows up at a factory or an office or a store every single day. Thank you for the great place to begin sermon studying." - Mark, ELCA Pastor (mjnbwink@qwest.net)
"I wish to renew my subscription for another year. I remain very impressed with depth and breadth of resources that you have assembled. Thank you!" - James, Anglican Priest (jyoung@rconnect.com)
"One more comment that was not well stated - your service is extremely appreciated, your fee is most reasonable. When does my membership expire so that I can be sure to renew. NEVER has my money been as well spent as when I signed up for your materials. You are a godsend. A contemporary song - no longer contemporary - said 'come on baby light my fire' That is what happens each time I log on and process the materials that are available to me. My spiritual engine is rev-ed up and I begin to kick into high gear. Your website is a rich and varied source for preaching inspiration and research. I appreciate being able to head to your website KNOWING I will find an excellent cross section of materials. I wish you all the best that your business can achieve and praying God's blessings upon you and your ministry. Thanks for all you do." - Matt, Evangelical Covenant Church Pastor (MATZATJR@aol.com)