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Ever Lost Anything?

Pentecost 17 New Day Sermon Most of us really don’t like loss, but how do you celebrate when something’s found?

Pentecost 17 Traditional Sermon Do you know a lost cause? By that, I don’t mean remembering a team like the 1962 New York Mets, who lost 3 out of every 4 baseball games they played that season. I’m not talking about a consideration of General George Armstrong Custer’s chances of winning the Battle of Little…

The Cost of Discipleship

Pentecost 16 New Day Sermon Jesus asks us to follow him, but there is a cost to this discipleship. Is the bar set too high?

Is The Bar Set Too High?

Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 16 So typically, I am not a huge fan of reality TV programs. Some of them feel to me as though they are constantly just trying to stir up drama and conflict between people and I guess I just feel as though there is enough drama and conflict in the world without…

Who’s On Your Guest List?

PENTECOST 15 TRADITIONAL SERMON One of the candidates on my summer book reading list was David Whyte’s his delightful little book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. He offers short but insightful considerations of 52 different ordinary words … think of it as a word a week for a year. If…

Bent Over

New Day Sermon pentecost 14 Do you feel “bent over” with cares and burdens in life? Jesus healing of a woman crippled (bent over) for eighteen years offers hope and perspective.

Do you jump in the Deep End?

New Day Sermon Pentecost 13 Difficult words from Jesus for a world in great difficulty. Is the fire of the Holy Spirit, only one that brings division? Or are there other realities?

“How are you
going to be?”

Pentecost 13 Traditional sermon The first time I remember my parents giving me the talk was when I was about four years old. Not ‘THE TALK,’ but a memorable one just the same… We were sitting around the dining room table all having dinner and talking about our day and I wanted to be able…

Fear Not

New Day Sermon, Pentecost 12 “Fear not little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom”…but before we talk about the kingdom, let’s talk about the fear.

Are You Ready?

TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 12 Friday morning’s paper led with this sentence under their front page story on the Olympic Games which opened on Friday night. “Even if only for two weeks, can “Faster-Higher-Stronger” overpower “deadlier, scarier and bloodier?” And as I read further, I knew I would be changing my opening to this morning’s sermon. …

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