Category: Sermons
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What’s in a Name?
The Name Of Jesus Traditional Worship January 1, 2017 And he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (Luke 2:21) We are talking onomastics … or onomatology to be more precise … which is “the study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal…
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The Ordinary and Extraordinary
Christmas Eve Traditional Worship To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.’ This is an ornament that hangs on our Christmas tree…
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Magic, Miracles, And The Unexpected
Christmas eve 10 pm traditional service I pray that this Christmas Eve greets you with warm moments and future beloved memories. I think when we look upon this time of year we engage in Mary-like behavior. No–I don’t think any of us will have a miraculous birth… I hope. I refer to the end of the Nativity…
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A New Old Fashioned Christmas
Christmas Eve New Day Sermon This New Old Fashioned Christmas revisits the past with hope for the future and asks “Can you really go home again?”
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What If the Messenger Named You?
Advent 4 Traditional Worship So what it’s in a name really. Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In that very brief prayer that I begin every sermon with we call out the names Lord, Our Rock, and Our Redeemer. Three different…
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Children of Christmas
New Day Sermon Advent 3 A Christmas story by Cynthia Rylant, reminds us of the humanness of Mary the mother of Jesus and a girl named Sylvia, and the way they both receive the blessings of angels among us.
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Are your expectations being met?
Advent 3 Traditional Worship Expectations and the holiday season go hand in hand, don’t they? As a kid this time of year was a real emotional roller coaster for me. Every morning I would wake with new anticipation toward snow falling and the delight of school canceled ringing through the halls. It hardly ever happened though.…
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Make Me Your Servant
Advent 2 New Day Sermon During the second week of Advent we remember promises of hope and love. How do you share these Advent promises with another?
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The Christmas Tree Man
advent 2 traditional worship His house is far out. Farther out than you can imagine anyone living. It’s small and clean and white. Most summers it’s cool; most winters it’s warm. It is a good house for a man alone. The man himself is a small man and skinny. He has never married. He has…
