Sermons & Worship from May 2017

Galatians 2:11-21 If you have ever taken a creative writing course, led a youth group experience, joined a “Journaling” class, or been part of a life improvement seminar, you have probably participated in the classic exercise called, “Write your own obituary.”  In this exercise, participants are encouraged to think about the direction of their lives by describing in a fictional obituary how they would like to be remembered when they are gone.  When youth do this exercise, their fictional obituaries…

Galatians 1:11-24 Background on reading: I’m going to be preaching on Paul’s letter to the Galatians for the next three weeks so before I read today’s scripture, I want to give you a little background on Paul and on this letter specifically. The apostle Paul is considered by many to be the first theologian of the Christian church.   Paul was a Roman citizen and a Jew who was trained in the tradition of the Pharisees but he became a…

Acts 15:1-21 The Bible often describes faith as a walk. The Psalmist says to God, “I walk in faithfulness to you,” Isaiah implores us “to walk in the way of the Lord,” and Paul says that we should “walk by faith, not by sight.” Today following worship, we are going to hold our Annual meeting to launch a new year of ministry and in preparation for that meeting, I’d like us to think for a moment about walking with Christ…