God’s Love Has No Borders

July 11, 2010
Ruth 1:22 – 2:13
This summer we are focusing on stories of God’s people from the OT. By retelling these stories our hope is to see how God is at work in very ordinary people.
When we see how God was present to people in their joys, their challenges, and in their sorrows – then [...]

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Agreeing and Disagreeing in Love

June 20, 2010
Matthew 18:15-22; Eph. 4:25-32
For the past few weeks we have been doing a series of sermons on the theme “following Jesus in a culture of fear and violence”.
In these sermons we have been developing a biblical basis for Christian peacemaking.
We started out in the OT by looking at God’s big vision of shalom [...]

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Jesus stops an execution

May 30, 2010
John 8:1-11
We are continuing our sermon series on “following Jesus in a culture of fear and violence”. For the past few weeks we have been developing a biblical foundation for being Christian peacemakers in this very violent world.
Now, for the next few weeks I want us to look at a few specific ways [...]

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Living the Drama of Pentecost

May 23, 2010

It was about 7 and a half months ago that I gave my first sermon here at PMC. At the time we were doing a series on the book of Acts called something like “the church under the influence.” In that sermon, my text was Acts 2: the story of Pentecost. In [...]

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Peacemakers from the start

May 16, 2010
Romans 12:14-21; Ephesians 2:11-22
We are continuing our sermon series on “following Jesus in a culture of fear and violence.”
During this series we have been looking at our “biblical basis for peacemaking.” We wanted to see how we came to our current understandings and what it might look like today.
The first two Sundays we [...]

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Voices for peace in the OT

May 2, 2010
Psalm 46:1-11; Isaiah 2:1-5
We are continuing our sermon series on “following Jesus in a culture of fear and violence”.
During this series we are looking at how we came to the understanding that Jesus wants us to love our enemies and to return good for evil. And if he does – what does that [...]

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God’s Healing Strategy

April 25, 2010
Genesis 9:8-17; Isaiah 54:1-10
 
This morning we are starting a new sermon series titled – “Following Jesus in a culture of fear and violence.”
 
During this series we want to look at what it means to give our allegiance to the Prince of Peace in a culture that insists some form of violence is necessary [...]

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Easter-Turning Sorrow into Joy

April 4, 2010
John 20:1-18; Isaiah 65:17-25

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
Happy Easter to everyone!

As Christians, we celebrate Easter each Sunday the day of Easter is our time to really celebrate the triumph of good over evil, of love over hate, and of life over death.

Whenever, we proclaim “Jesus is risen” we re-affirm that God is the power [...]

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A Passionate Servant

March 28, 2010
John 13:1-17; Philippians 2:5-11

I think most of us struggle, at times, to understand who God is and how God works in the world. Sometimes life just doesn’t make sense and it is difficult to know what God is up to.

However, in the last week of Jesus’ life – Jesus does two very dramatic [...]

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A Passionate Extravagance

March 21, 2010
Isaiah 43:16-21; John 12:1-8
We are continuing our Lenten theme of “Holding on and letting go”. During this season of the year we are reflecting on
what we need to “let go of in order to hold onto God”.

This morning I want to focus on this story of Mary anointing the feet of Jesus from [...]

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