Author: Rev. Craig Ross
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8-30-15, Pentecost 14 (PR), Who Do You See?
THE FOURTHEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST ST. PETER’S — NEFFSVILLE 30 AUGUST 2015 — Sages Sunday Preaching Text — 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he…
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Pastor’s Email Devotion, August 30, 2015 — Pr. Sarah, Guest Devotioneer
Pastor’s Email Devotion — Pr. Sarah, Guest Devotioneer The Week of Pentecost 14 August 30, “Who do you see?” My soul has been heavily laden and the question “who do you see?” gets at the heart of the burden. I’ve been seeing a lot of things that make me weary. I was looking at the…
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What Is Your Name?
Traditional Sermon Pentecost 13 What is your name? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course.) You know what your name is, right? … if not, then raise your hand, and we’ll ask the people around you to help you out. Yes, names are the glue of our relationships with each other. They help us identify and…
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Pastor’s Email Devotion, August 23, 2015 — Mary Ann Frontz, Guest Devotioneer
Pastor’s Email Devotion – Mary Ann Frontz, Guest Devotioneer Devotion for Sunday, August 23, 2015 Last Sunday “Why are you so afraid?” was the question in the sermon series Questions God Can’t Answer. Hearing Vicar Karen’s story in her sermon of their family pulling the camper up and down Beartooth Mountain with her husband at…
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Pastor’s Email Devotion for the Week of August 16, 2015
Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 12 August 16, 2015 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5, NRSV) I had the privilege this past week of visiting with woman…
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Pastor’s Email Devotion, August 9, 2015
Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 11 August 9, 2015 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18, NRSV) Many of you know I am a creature of routine … especially on…
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8-2-15, Pentecost 10 (PR), What Do You Need, New Day
SERMON – August 2, 2015, New Day Pastor Ross-Preacher John 1:35-50 We all have things we want, right? We may not be quite as transparent as our children, but we all have some secret wish lists. Maybe a Ferrari is on yours … or a love affair with a movie star … or a house…
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Pastor’s Email Devotion, August 2, 2015, Neil Snyder-Guest Devotioneer
Pastor’s Email Devotion – Neil Snyder, Guest Devotioneer The Week of Pentecost 10 August 2, 2015 Church Thoughts It seems fair to say that the emergent church discussion out there sincerely tries a to look at church and secular history, draw some reasonable patterns, blend that into what they see happening currently in the western…
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7-26-15, Pentecost 9 (PR) God’s Expansive Boundaries, Traditional
SERMON – July 26, 2015 2 Kings 5:1-14 (PLEASE NOTE that the following sermon was a one-person monologue, so the text here is an approximation of the spoken sermon content.) Lepers are a dime a dozen in our culture – how about yours? We have more people diagnosed with leprosy than you can shake a…