Sermon: The Sin of Pride
Pride is one of those things that can be a positive and a negative it is however in inwardly directed emotion. If we view this from, the negative meaning of th...
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Sermon: The Greatest of These
You have heard me preach about love before, well I think I mention love in almost every sermon I preach. I do this because love is central to the Gospel messag...
Counting the Cost
Very often in our day to day lives, we want to know what the cost of something is. We go to the supermarket or some other store to buy something, and we are in...
Healing Hands
I would like to start with a little story this morning. As many of you know, I am involved in disaster relief work. In the past, the Church has deployed me to...
Faith: Against the Odds
On the 8th of July 1741, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards stepped into the pulpit of a church in Enfield Connecticut and delivered his most famous sermons, Sinners...
Seek First the Kingdom of God
In the book “The Pine Tree” by Rose Dobbs, there is a story about a pine tree that is lonely and sad because it is the only tree around with long ne...
Teach us to Pray
What we have just heard from the Scriptures is a very early version of what we no call the Lord’s prayer. When I call us to pray this prayer here at the C...
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile....
Putting on the Mantle
In the last days of the Civil War, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, fell to the Union army. Abraham Lincoln insisted on visiting the city. Even thou...
How Will You Be Remembered?
On May 5, 1868, The Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, General John A. Logan, published General Order Number 11 that establishe...