Sermons from 2016 (Page 5)

Feeding Others

Have you heard joke about the classroom of kindergarteners who were asked to bring in a symbol of their faith?  One Jewish child brought in a menorah, and a Catholic child brought in a rosary.  When it came time for the Methodist child, she pulled out her parent’s corningware dish complete with a snack for…

Naked Enthusiasm

We are in a series of messages entitled, Followers of the Way. Long before Christians were called by the name of Christ, there were those who sought to follow the way that Jesus and those who knew him lived. They followed the Way of living and sharing, loving and caring that the disciples and apostles…

Experiencing Jesus

Do you remember playing whisper down the lane in school? Sometimes, called telephone. It was where the person at the front of the line would begin with a phrase and each one would whisper it, one to the other, until at the end, you saw what it had become. Somehow, Miss Smith’s class has 6…

Yes! Prayers of Joy!

Good stories are those that when they are done – we all finding ourselves saying or thinking, Oh! Tell it Again! This is why we have all read our children Cat in the Hat, Good Night Moon, Where the Wild Things Are and other favorites again and again and again. I think many of us have had the experience of the same…

Thanks!

This Christmas, our family received two very different kinds of gifts. One gift that was thoughtful and considerate, that took into consideration who were are and what we might enjoy. It was a print of a place we love, where we have deep roots, Milky Way Farm in Chester Springs. Steve and I both had…

Wow! Prayers of Adoration

We continue this morning in a series of messages on one-word prayers. During this Lenten season, we have been intentionally focusing on a time of prayer. We have looked at prayers of confession, supplication, petition, and intercession with our Oops! Help! Why? Please! This week, we lift our hands and voices in WOW! Luke’s parable…

Please! Prayers to Intercede

We have been in a series of sermons about one-word prayers. The kind that we often pray without even fully understanding that we are praying. It is the OOpps, that we talked about on Ash Wednesday; the Help! And the Why? Today, we turn to look at please. Please that you will hear us God and please that you will attend to…