Sermons

Sermon: When Love Arrives – Fourth Sunday of Advent (Matthew 1:18-25)

We begin this morning with a brief Christmas story. A young boy came home from Sunday school, and he rushed ...
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Sermon: Be Joyful While You Wait – Third Sunday of Advent (James 5: 7-10)

Whether it’s a note in a Christmas card, or a song on the radio, or an ad on your phone, ...

Sermon: Roots of Peace – Second Sunday of Advent (Isaiah 11:1-10)

There is a heated holiday debate that rages each year from offices, bar stools, dinner tables, and on the Internet ...
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Sermon: Awakened – First Sunday of Advent (Matthew 24:36-44)

In our scripture reading this morning Jesus tells us that we will not know the day or the hour of ...
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Mind Your Own Business – Twenty Third Sunday After Pentecost (2 Thessalonians 3:6-13)

As we approach this text from 2 Thessalonians this morning, I will remind you all of something that one of ...
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Like a Good Neighbor – Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost (Romans 15:1-6)

For a few years, a little less than a ten years ago, on Thursday mornings you would usually find me ...

Gifts by Association – Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost (Acts 16:14-18)

Today our scripture reading comes to us from the book of Acts. It is appropriate, because our sermon theme lately ...
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…Look Inside and See All the People – Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Matthew 4:18-22)

Alright, since I’ve teased it in the sermon titles the last couple of weeks, let’s go ahead and say that ...
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Here is the Church. Here is the Steeple… – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ephesians 2:19-22)

At 10 am on the morning of June 18th, 1978 members of Central Woodward Christian Church gathered in the sanctuary ...

How We Think About Abundance – Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Philippians 1:3-6, 9-11)

Spiritual teacher Meister Eckhart wrote, “If the only prayer you ever say in your life is ‘thank you’ that would ...