Cross Wise and Faithful

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 31, 2010   Philippians 2: 1-13 The theme we are going to strike is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It’s about the One obedient to the cross, and faithful. It’s kind of odd, isn’t it? —...

Money Matters

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 17, 2010  Luke 12: 16-22, 30-34; Gen 11: 31—12: 1-5 Much of what you hear said in churches about money does not belong in churches. That’s not because it’s wrong to talk about your money in...

The Great Divorce

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 10, 2010Luke 12: 49-56 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, but division . . . father against son, mother against daughter.” Why read such a hard saying on this day, while...

East/West North/South People

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 3, 2010  Luke 13: 22-30 In a few minutes, First Church will celebrate the reception of new members, and we will ask our brothers and sisters three questions. I want to think about the first...