Sermons & Worship from September 2022

I Samuel 17:4-10,40-45; Psalm 59:1-8, 16-17; Philippians 4:4-7 Israel had a problem. His name was Goliath. He stood 10 feet tall and morning and evening, day by day, he came out to meet the army of Israel. This giant of a man carried on his body He was a one-man war machine. Israel was not unaccustomed to great trials. They had escaped from Egypt. They had survived as a nation in the face of hunger and thirst and serpents and…

Scripture: Zechariah 7:9-10; Psalm 145:14-21; Matthew 11:1-6 John the Baptist was in a Roman prison awaiting certain execution. John was the cousin of Jesus through his mother Elizabeth and Mary the mother of Jesus. John had been the one chosen by God to prepare the way for the coming of Jesus and the message that Jesus would proclaim. How could John ever have imagined that he would find himself in prison for speaking truth to power? For sure, John was…

Scripture: Jeremiah 33:1-3; Psalm 62:5-8; Acts 10:1-8 We need to know the stories of our faith, the stories of those who have gone before us. We need to know the We need to Even though Jesus had referred to Peter as a “rock,” sometimes that rock was not as strong as we might think it was. Most often we read about But Peter would continue to struggle with who he was and with whom he was to become. When Dorcus…

Scriptures: Ecclesiastes 3:9-13; Psalm 66:1-9; Ephesians 2:19-22 Well, here we are. It’s the last great holiday weekend of the summer and it’s celebrated with sunscreen, water sports, the last weekend at the lake, and another day to sleep in. Somehow the entrepreneurs haven’t figured out how to get us to buy Labor Day cards and Labor Day gifts…yet. While Labor Day does not mark one of the Christian holidays, there is every biblical reason to understand that our labor, and…