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Monday Mar 27, 2017
Give An Account
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Monday Mar 27, 2017
This sermon has a two-fold - to engage in a theological exercise and to determine the meaning of this parable for modern-day readers. Is God the stern, unforgiving master in the story, or is the master incidental to the real message?
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
A Wedding and a Banquet
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
David Lose calls this parable "an ugly parable" for good reason. It has wedding invitees that turn down the king's invitation to his son's wedding banquet, violence, distruction of a city, and kicking a poor man out of the banquet who actually accepted the invitation. The sermon explores what is going on in another one of Jesus' parables. This one was addressed to the Jewish religious leaders who had rejected Jesus.
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Lost Sheep
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Monday Mar 13, 2017
This sermon comes from Jesus' parable about a shepherd who leaves 99 sheep, safely pastured, to go find one lost sheep. Listeners would have seen the believed the shepherd in the story to be foolish for putting the 99 at risk. Whch helped drive home Jesus' major point about the importance of a single person in the mind of Christ. The sermon explores the way Jesus regarded the "little one."
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Setting Priorities
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
In Matthew 13:44-46 Matthew recounts the two parables that Jesus told about "treasure" that people found and spent their whole wealth in order to possess. It's a stunning idea, and Jesus connects it to the value of the Kingdom of God. Those who recognize the wealth of the kingdom go on to sell everything to possess it. As a result we have the stories today of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, and a host of other people who went on to give their lives for the work of God. That is this the concern of this week's sermon.
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Sin and the Lord's Prayer
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
This sermon completes the Lord's Prayer series. It looks at the last two phrases in the prayer, "forgive us our sins" and "lead us not into the time of trial." The sermon emphasizes the way in which a forgiveness ethos is characteristic of the kingdom of God.
Sunday Feb 19, 2017
Praying for Bread
Sunday Feb 19, 2017
Sunday Feb 19, 2017
This sermon looks at the third concern of the Lord's Prayer - daily bread. It looks at the role that bread plays throughout the Bible and asks what the implications are of a disciple of Jesus caring about bread for others and not merely for self.
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Our Father
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
This sermon begins a 4-week series on the Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:7-15. The sermon lays a foundation for the remainder of the series as well as examining the opening phrase of the prayer, "Our Father....hallowed be thy name."
For resources mentioned in the sermon go to our website to find two printable documents.
The Lord's Prayer as a model for Your Prayers.
Prayer Beads and the Lord's Prayer.
Monday Jan 16, 2017
A City on A Hill
Monday Jan 16, 2017
Monday Jan 16, 2017
This sermon comes from Matthew 5:13-16 and is the place where Jesus says to his disciples, "You and you alone are salt and light." The sermon looks at how being salt and light reshapes a person's life in their discipleship to Jesus. By being salt and light we bring glory and praise to God. This is our divine purpose.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Realizing Our Need for God
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
This is the first of two sermons on the Beatitudes and the gateway to a Winter/Spring series on the teachings of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew. Each of the Beatitudes serves like a link in a chain, each link dependent on the previous. The text for the sermon is Matthew 5:3-10.
Saturday Dec 31, 2016
I Am Gabriel
Saturday Dec 31, 2016
Saturday Dec 31, 2016
The angel Gabriel is the voice of this sermon as it looks at the role that angels have played in delivering messages from God. The angels help us to see the weight that is given to the birth of Jesus as the work of God in manifesting his plans to mankind.