Category: Sermons HCE
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Sermon of February 5, 2012–“Meeting Real Needs”
Mark 1:29-39 29As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. 31He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her,…
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Sermon of January 29–“Jam & Jelly”
I love this passage from Deuteronomy. It lays out very clearly how we can tell what comes from God and what doesn’t. Knowing God’s Word to us in our everyday context is not an easy task in today’s word (if it ever was). In Chapter 18, Moses lays down 2 criteria for knowing the truth…
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Sermon of Sunday, January 21st–“The Business of the Church”
This week’s sermon dealt with the idea that Jesus chose his disciples from among the common, the lowly. The text was Mark 1:14-20: Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe…
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Sermon of January 15, 2012–God’s Choice, Not Mine
This past Sunday’s sermon was a reflection on Jesus’ calling the disciples as we have it in John’s Gospel, Chapter 1:43-51. I’ll get another crack at a similar story this upcoming Sunday when I’ll be preaching on Mark’s version of the calling of the disciples in Mark 1:14-20. God’s Choice, not mine
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Sermon for Sunday January 8–“Throw the Book At Them!”
Sunday’s worship was very powerful. We began with the Ordination and Installation of the New Consistory members. We then had a re-affirmation of Baptism based on the New Year’s Covenant Service of John Wesley. We ended the service with a celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Baptism was the theme around which the sermon was crafted.…
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Sermon of January 1, 2012–“Who Are These People, Anyway?”
This sermon is my attempt to struggle with the roles of Simeon and Anna in Chapter 2 of Luke. It occurred to me during the preparation of the sermon how important they are to the infancy story of Jesus, yet we have overlooked them–that’s a great irony because they were probably overlooked in Jesus’ day…
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Sermon of December 11, 2011–“What Angels Don’t Say”
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:26-38. A few years ago I realized how totally unique the birth stories of Jesus are in the Gospels. There’s a challenge to anyone who wants to read the Gospels as a narrative–what happens to the angels? Sure, they are there at Christ’s birth but then what? Angels are absent from most…
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Sermon of December 4, 2011–“A Dear John Letter”
Did you ever wonder why John the Baptist shows up in our Advent Church services but rarely on our Christmas trees or our Holiday TV movies? What’s the connection? Why John? What did he do that was so special? Here is my take on a letter written to John the Baptist by me, asking him…
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