Worship at 10:00 AM Sundays
Helping Someone Who’s Struggling John 5: 1-8 June 1, 2025 (followed by Healing Service) This is one of my classic stories from the five years that Lori and I spent as Home Missionaries at Henderson Settlement in Frakes, Kentucky…
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Motivating People to Change Mark 8: 31-37 May 25, 2025 It starts out so innocently with only the purest of loving intentions, but… That’s the perspective from Mary, the mother of Jesus. Two weeks ago, our Scripture featured…
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Handling Emotional Threats Matthew 26:69-75 and Acts 11:1-4 May 18, 2025 How do we handle the emotional threats of another person? What do we do with the anger, disappointment and shame that someone directs our way? When they point…
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Let Them Mark 3: 20-35 May 11, 2025 (Mother’s Day) It’s Mother’s Day. It’s a great day to look more closely at Jesus’ mother. For many months we were looking at Jesus from the perspective of the John…
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Celebrate and Pray for Our Farmers Psalm 65 May 4, 2025 At the end of this month on the United Church of Christ calendar it says: Rural Life Sunday. It’s the Sunday where we celebrate our rural heritage. …
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The Earliest Resurrection Story? John 20:30 – 21:19 April 27, 2025 After three months, we’ve come to the end of our survey of the gospel of John. Actually, last Sunday we covered the final chapter of the original…
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Lost and Found April 20, 25 Easter Sunday John 20: 1-10, 19-29 (liturgist read italicized part) Imagine we are Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples. We’ve been following him for three years. Do you remember when we first met him? We’ll…
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It is Finished! John 12: 12-19 and 19:28-30 April 13, 2025 (Palm/Passion Sunday) Thanks again to Jerry Toshalis, my former spiritual director for some of the ideas in this message. We start with Palm Sunday which our children helped…
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Jesus’ Prayer For Us John 17 April 6, 2025 If you had less than 24 hours to live, what would you do? What would you say in the last 24 hours of your life? What would you say…
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A Reconstructed Faith John 15:1-17 (Liturgist help with sermon) March 30, 2025 Imagine one Saturday morning, our daughter Sarah is preparing pancakes for her two children: five year old Saima and four year old Bene. The two children are…
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