Worship at 10:00 AM Sundays
Who are Fathers? Matthew 2:13-23, Proverbs 4:1-9 and Genesis 27:1-23 June 15, 2025 Father’s Day Preached with Crosby Bearden On this Father’s Day, Crosby and I decided to focus on fathers. We looked for Scriptures that talked about fathers….
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Facing Fearful Threats Acts 2: 1-14 and 37-42 June 8, 2025 (Dialogue Script with Liturgist) What do you do when your people are under attack? Today is Pentecost Sunday. It’s the day we celebrate the birth of the…
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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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