Category: Sermons
Mission Impossible?
Read Matthew 28:16-20 and Isaiah 2:1-4 here. Listen to sermon here: Read or follow along below--- Do you recognize this music? Maybe you know it from the movie that’s in theaters now (Mission: Impossible - Fallout)[1] Or from the TV series that ran in the 60’s and 70’s Or from Amy Brownlee’s children’s sermon a ...
Is Fish All There Is?
Read John 6:1-21, Psalm 145:10-18 here. Sermon: Megan Giorgetti's Offertory "Reverie" by Claude Debussy: A rabbi, priest, and a minister are out fishing in a boat on a big lake when the priest realizes that he’s thirsty and wants a drink from the large cooler of drinks that they left onshore because it wouldn’t fit ...
Our Forever Home
Read Ephesians 1:3-14, Jeremiah 31:1-9 here Long ago, before the creation of the world, God loved us and chose us. Those words from Ephesians 1 are the epigraph at the beginning of Max Lucado’s book He Chose the Nails. As I sat in my seat on the airplane in Austin, Texas, waiting to begin my ...
Herod’s Hubris
Read Mark 6:14-29 & Esther 5:1-8 here. So, I have to tell you right up front, I kind of lost my head over this scripture this week. But then, so did John the Baptist. What images stick with you from this story? For me, and maybe for you, too, it’s hard to look away from ...
Grace & the American Dream
Read Galatians 2:15-21 and Psalm 32 here. One day, an American businessman was standing on a pier in a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long ...
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