Worship Sermons
Slow Church IX. Making Space for Strangers
The ninth sermon in Pastor Jim Clarke’s SLOW CHURCH series for Sunday, March 13, 2016 is titled, “Making Space for Strangers. The scripture is Luke 1:47-14. You may chose the audio version by clicking on this link https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/making-space-for-strangers or read the print version that follows. Since I went to […]
Slow Church VII: Eternity in DIsguise
Here is Pastor Jim’s seventh sermon in the ten-part series, “Slow Church,” titled “Eternity in Disguise” for Sunday, February 28, 2016. You may listen to the audio of this sermon by clicking on this link: https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/eternity-in-disguise or read the text that follows. Thursday before last my wife Paula and I attended […]
Slow Church VIII: Bread For All
Pastor Jim’s sermon for Sunday, March 6, 2016, Slow Church VIII: Bread For All. The scripture: Exodus 16:13-21 and Luke 9:10-17. Listen to the audio of his sermon at https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/abundance-and-gratitudet or you may read the text that follows: I have said a number of times that I don’t like movies […]
Slow Church VI: Walmart R Us
Pastor Jim’s sermon for Sunday, February 21, 2016 is part VI: Walmarts-R-Us in the ten-part series, “Slow Church.” The scripture: (insert). You may listen to the audio for this sermon by clicking on this link: https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/walmart-r-us or you may chose to read the complete text that follows: My first […]
Love and Fragmentation
Pastor Jim’s sermon for Sunday, February 14, 2016 is part V: Love and Fragmentation in the ten-part series, “Slow Church.” The scripture: I Corinthians 12: 12-31. You may listen to the audio for this sermon by clicking on this link https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/love-and-fragmentation or you may chose to read the complete text that follows. […]
Slow Church IV: The Culture of Impatience
Pastor Jim’s sermon for Sunday, February 7, 2016 is part IV: The Culture of Impatience in the ten-part series, “Slow Church.” The scripture: James 5:7-12 and Luke 12:35-40. You may listen to the audio for this sermon by clicking on this link https://soundcloud.com/cedar-cross-umc/the-culture-of-impatience or you may chose to read the complete […]
III. This is Our Story
The third sermon in the series by Pastor James Clarke based on “Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus” written by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison. Scripture: Colossians 2:1-7 and Luke 8:4-8. Sunday, January 24, 2016 Did you know that monks take vacations? When I was at Mt. Angel Abbey […]
II. Taste, See and Smell
This is Pastor Jim’s second sermon in the series based on “Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus” written by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison The scripture: Genesis 12:1-9 and Matthew 5:13. Sunday, January 17, 2016. Listen to the sermon: I think we’ve all had the experience of smelling […]
Blessed Are The Slow
This is the Introduction to a ten-part series of sermons by Pastor James Clarke based on the book, “Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus,” written by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison. (January 10, 2016) The scripture: Matthew 5:1-10 and Luke 6:20-26. In our youth group, there was a […]
Let It Be With Me: Just As You Say
The Pastor’s Sermon for December 20, 2015. Scripture: Luke 1:26-38, 46-56. Listen: I found a book in the library that interested me. The title is The Narcissist Next Door, by Jeffrey Kluger. I opened it – checked out the inside cover and it said: “Narcissists are everywhere.” This ought to be […]