Worship Sermons

Sixth Sunday of Easter Scriptures 1 John 4:7-21 (NRSV): Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this [...]

Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 6, 2012  Scripture: John 15:1-8 (NRSV)            ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been [...]

Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 29, 2012 Scripture: Psalm 23 (NRSV)  The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.  He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.  He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.  Even though I walk [...]

Third Sunday of Easter,  April 22, 2012 Scripture: I John 3:1-7            See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we [...]

Date: Second Sunday of  Easter, April 15, 2012 Scripture: John 20:19-31 (NRSV)        When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them [...]

Date: Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 Scripture:  Mark 16:1-8 (NRSV)      When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, [...]

April 1, 2012 – Palm Sunday Our Former District Superintendent and now Bishop Elaine Stanovsky posted on Facebook a picture of herself wearing a hoodie; in response, of course, for the killing of 12 year old Trayvon Martin in Florida some weeks ago. The story is not entirely clear; young [...]

Scripture:  Hebrews 5:5-10 (NRSV) What in God’s name is “the order of Melchizedek?” Did you hear that at the end of the reading?            …and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order [...]

Scripture: I Corinthians 1:18-25 Not too long ago a fellow parent in our community said to me, I never knew parenting would be so hard. That could have been any one of us – who have children. Before we have children we think of children in general but we never [...]

Scripture: Psalm 22:23-31 Date: March 4, 2012 For the majority of my time as a pastor/preacher I have followed the Lectionary; the Lectionary is a three-year cycle of scriptures that has developed over time to be a tradition of the Church. Each year we follow one of the gospels:  Mark, [...]