Whatever became of sin?

April 29, 2012
Isaiah 11:1-9; Matthew 9:9-13
I am starting this morning a new sermon series on “The seven deadly sins and the beatitudes”.
Today I want to introduce the series by giving some history of the seven deadly sins, look at the meaning of sin, and talk about why it is important to name sin.
As we begin [...]

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For God So Loved the Cosmos

Sandeep Thomas
Scripture: Gen 3:17, Rom 8:18-24
April 22, 2012
Today is Earth Day. It is a day that was ear marked to call attention to the environmental crisis more than a century after the Industrial revolution. However in many instances environmentalists and Christians have not been able to see eye to eye on many counts. The envornmentalist [...]

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Why Do We Have to be “Right”?

Joel Wildermuth
April 15, 2012
It’s a fair stretch to say that Christianity’s history is not a checkered one, riddled with many things that have been of an unsavory nature, and which we look back on and chide, “Good Lord, what were we thinking!?”
For anyone who believes it’s a rosy history of good people doing good things, [...]

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Broken and Blessed

April 8, 2012
John 20:1-18; I Cor. 15:1-11; 2 Cor. 4:7-15
Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Happy Easter!
In the Gospels we are told the place Jesus wants to go after his resurrection is to Galilee. At the empty tomb the angel tells the two Mary’s that Jesus has risen. Then they are told:
“Do not be afraid; go and [...]

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Written on your heart

March 25, 2012
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 5: 13-16
Our Lenten series theme is “Where do I sign?”
The background to this theme is that God is seeking to restore human beings and all of creation into a right relationship with God and one another.
In pursuing this restored relationship – God makes a series of covenants with Noah, Abraham [...]

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Snakes and a Cross

March 18, 2012
Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21
Our theme for Lent this year is “Where do I sign?”. During this series we have been looking at how God’s people have responded to God’s invitation to sign up and journey with God.
So far we have seen how Noah, Abraham and Sarah, and Moses said “yes” to God in [...]

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Sign me up!

March 4, 2012
Gen. 17:1-7, 15-16; Mark 8:27-38
Our theme for Lent this year is “Where do I sign?”
This theme grows out of the understanding that God has initiated a covenant with us and desires us to sign on.
The OT scriptures for Lent are about God’s covenant with Noah, Abraham and Sarah, and Moses.
These are ordinary people [...]

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Pride and the poor in spirit

May 6, 2012
2 Chron. 26:1-5, 15b-16; Prov. 16:18-22; Phil. 2:1-11
Last Sunday we started a new sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes.
The Seven Deadly Sins were first articulated in the 4th century by the monk Evagrius Ponticus. He had gone out into the desert to get away from the temptations of this [...]

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Envy and the Mourner

May 13, 201
Gen. 4:1-12; I Cor. 13:4-7; Matt. 5:4
We are continuing our sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes.
The Seven Deadly Sins – pride, envy, sloth, lust, anger, gluttony, and greed – were developed in the 4th century and became a way for the church to teach about how these sins choke [...]

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Doing Justice

January 29, 2012
Isaiah 58:1-14; Micah 6:6-8; Luke 4: 16-19
We are beginning a new sermon series today on “justice”. The theme for this whole series is “let justice roll down”.
This theme comes from the prophet Amos. In Amos chapter five – God says to Israel –

“I hate your worship services.
I despise your conferences and conventions.
I can’t [...]

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