sermons Sermon: April 14, 2024 9 May 2024 “What We Are”Acts 3:12-19 (First Reading) | 1 John 3:1-7 (Epistle Lesson) You know, you can do the same thing every day, you can have the same routine every day,…
sermons Sermon: April 21, 2024 9 May 2024 “What We Are”Acts 3:12-19 (First Reading) | 1 John 3:1-7 (Epistle Lesson) You know, you can do the same thing every day, you can have the same routine every day,…
sermons Sermon: May 5, 2024 9 May 2024 “The Chosen” | John 15:9-17 An elderly couple celebrating their fiftieth anniversary had no secrets, except for the shoe box the wife had always kept hidden under the bed. She…
sermons Sermon: April 28, 2024 29 Apr 2024 “Bearing Fruit” | John 15:1-8 When I think of God several things come to mind: our creator—our sustainer—our redeemer. We celebrated “Earth Day” this past week reminding us that we…
sermons Sermon: February 25, 2024 9 Apr 2024 “Plain Spoken”Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 (O.T. Lesson) | Mark 8:31-38 (Gospel Lesson)According to that great font of wisdom, Yogi Berra, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”…
sermons Sermon: March 10, 2024 9 Apr 2024 “Coming Into The Light”Numbers 21:4-9 (O.T. Lesson) | John 3:14-21 (Gospel Lesson)A couple of weeks ago I made the statement that if you asked a room full of Christians what…
sermons Sermon: April 7, 2024 9 Apr 2024 “Believing Without Seeing”Acts 4: 32-35 (First Reading) | John 20: 19-31 (Gospel Lesson)A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned…
sermons Sermon: March 24, 2024 4 Apr 2024 “Satisfying The Crowds” Mark 11:1-11 (Palm Reading)Isaiah 50:4-9a (Passion Reading)Mark 15:1-39 (Gospel Lesson)In a Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown and Linus are standing next to each other, staring at a star-filled…
sermons Sermon: March 31, 2024 4 Apr 2024 “I Have Seen The Lord” Acts 10:34-43 (First Reading) | John 20:1-18 (Gospel Lesson) Pastor Billy Strayhorn tells a wonderful true story about a pastor who was asked to conduct…
sermons Sermon: March 17, 2024 21 Mar 2024 “Glorify Your Name” Jeremiah 31:31-34 (O.T. Lesson)John 12:20-33 (Gospel Lesson) We define the term success in a variety of ways. For the businessman, or woman, I guess that might mean…
sermons Sermon: February 18, 2024 22 Feb 2024 “Here’s Your Sign”1 Peter 3:18-22 (Epistle Reading) | Genesis 9:8-17I can’t say for sure but would imagine that sis weeks ago when I was picking out my scripture and sermon…
sermons Sermon: February 11, 2024 15 Feb 2024 “Prophets And The Law”2 Kings 2:1-12 (O.T. Lesson) | Mark 9:2-9 (Gospel Lesson)An elderly priest, who had spent 50 years preaching in parish missions, dreamed one night that he died…
sermons Sermon: February 4, 2024 7 Feb 2024 “Why He Came"Isaiah 40:21-31 (O.T. Lesson) Mark 1:29-39 (Gospel Lesson)The words from the Prophet in our Old Testament Lesson come from what the Bible scholars refer to as Isaiah 2.…
sermons Sermon: January 28, 2024 7 Feb 2024 “Teaching With Authority”Deuteronomy 18:15-20 (O.T. Lesson)Mark 1:21-28 (Gospel Lesson)Have you heard the story about the bride who was extremely nervous on her wedding day? She confided to her minister that…
sermons Sermon: January 21, 2024 7 Feb 2024 “Time To Get-Er-Done”Jonah 3:1-5, 10 (O.T. Lesson)Mark 1:14-20 (Gospel Lesson)I read once about an older lady sitting on an airplane holding her Bible in her lap. A strapping young man…
sermons Sermon: January 14, 2024 16 Jan 2024 “The Next Day…”1 Samuel 3:1-10 (O.T. Lesson)John 1:43-51 (Gospel Lesson)Both of our texts this morning have something to do with a call—help to understand that call—and answering the call.You know,…
sermons Sermon: January 7, 2024 11 Jan 2024 “Well Pleased”Matthew 2:1-12 (Epiphany Lesson), Mark 1:4-11 (Gospel Lesson)This is one of those rare Sunday’s when we celebrate two Christian holiday’s on the same Sunday. Don’t ask me if it…