Category: Traditional Sermons
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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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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…
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What’s In Your Snow Globe?
Advent 1 Traditional Sermon It’s hard to believe it is the first Sunday of Advent already – maybe some of you are like me and began to put up your tree and other Christmas Decorations. Like I said earlier, one of my favorite decorations as a kid as I said in my children’s sermon was…
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Is Christ Our King?
Traditional Sermon, Christ The King Sunday In 1928, Elie Wiesel was born in Transylvania. Fifteen years later he and his family would be deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz where his mother and younger sister would perish. He would later study in Paris and become a journalist where he was encouraged…
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Need A Word Of Hope?
Pentecost 26 traditional sermon The sky is falling! We’ve had a pretty dramatic year in the life of our country, haven’t we? I’m sure the last few weeks and months you have been regaled with the soap opera that has been our election cycle, to the point that this past Tuesday has been more of…
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Salvation Has Come to This House
Reformation Sunday Traditional Sermon OK, so we get off easy today. As we kick off our Fall Stewardship Emphasis, we’re primarily asking you to consider being part of our “Tithe Your Tithe” challenge this year. (Give me just a moment here – TAKE OFF STOLE) Don’t think of me as your pastor at the moment…
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Things Are Not Always What They Appear
Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 23 So things are not always what they appear. Sometimes due to our own preconceptions and prejudices we can completely misread the world around us. For example, at one point in history, because of humanities narrow perspective from our limited knowledge, we believed that the world was flat and that if you traveled…
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What’s In a Name?
Pentecost 22 Traditional Sermon Her name is Terri Roberts. So … what’s in a name like Teri Roberts? Well, not very much, I suppose … unless you are the Teri Roberts who is the mother of Charles Carl Roberts IV … the person who shot ten Amish girls at Nickel Mines ten years ago, killing…
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Giving Thanks
Pentecost 21 Traditional Sermon St. Peter’s is raising money for world hunger. As a part of the campaign your leaders hold a 40 pound jug of water through the announcements. It’s a visual sign of the water that a woman or child has to carry each day to get clean water and walk it back…
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The Journey of Faith
Pentecost 20 Traditional Sermon So, how would you answer the question, “What is Faith?” <CONGREGATIONAL ANSWERS — Believing in something you can’t see … faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen … doing the right thing … rooting for the New York Mets … reading the Bible ……