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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
…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 ...
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 ...
