Half Truth: God wouldn’t give you more than you can handleThis week, we continue in our series about half truths – those colloquial phrases that sound bibl-ish. We are sure that we could find them somewhere in the Bible, if we just kept looking! We have heard the clichés from those around us. There is a kernel of accuracy and truth in…
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Sermons by Reverend Monica Guepet (Page 6)
I enjoy church signs. They give you food for thought. And sometimes for a different reason than the church intends. This week, I saw this sign: The Bible hasn’t change. Have you? It was clear to me the church who posted the sign intended one thing: The Bible is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And you should be too. But I…
“Half Truths: Everything Happens for a Reason” Today, we begin a new series of sermon: half-truths. Not everything we attribute to being found in the Bible is actually in the Bible and biblical truth. This series is inspired by the Adam Hamilton’s book Half-Truths. (1) Most of us have said things that we believe and shared that we have not fully thought…
You are LovedOn Ash Wednesday, about forty-seven days ago, 60 of you said thank you to me when I said ashes to ashes, dust to dust, from God you have come and God you will return. Why say thank you or Amen? What were you institutively reflecting on? We acknowledge the reality that our life is in God. God is already creating…
Laid up in a hospital bed from his wounds, a young man named Ignatius began to imagine more than the brokenness he had known. More than just fighting and pain, he wondered what else he could do. With aggression, conflict, mercenary challenges, he felt desperation. At the age of seventeen, he was more eager to pick a good fight, than any concern…
This Lent, we have been listening to Jesus’ call in the Sermon on Mount to take on love, God’s love with prayers for our hands and actions for our feet. Last week, we began our journey on Ash Wednesday as we asked the question – Does Jesus love me, even me? YES! Then we looked…
This Wednesday, many gathered for Ash Wednesday to begin this season of Lent. With 59 in worship between the noon and 7pm services, I was moved. Moved by the ashen mark of God’s love of foreheads. Moved by familiar faces and neighbor faces we are learning. Moved by those who brought their confessions to the cross to be shredded and then embrace…
I have become quite fond of a television/ book character by the name of a Father Brown. He is an unassuming Roman Catholic priest in the 1950s from a small British town who loves the people of his parish and has a healthy dose of suspicion when it comes to solving crime. In a Post-World War II world, he is not a…
Have you ever gone on a road trip? On this long weekend, in the middle of winter, with hints of 60-degree weather, a road trip sound nice right about now. A change of scenery, a switch from the routine, a bit of adventure. For my first big road trip, my dad laid out road atlases across the kitchen table and marked our…