Sermons

Deuteronomy 6:1-9 1 Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days […]

Message by John B. McCall, D. Min. Matthew 21:33-46 There was a time you could speak of the Christian Church and everyone knew what you meant. Those days are behind us. You can’t really say “Christian” without needing to add some adjective, some qualifier. I think that’s healthy… I’m a Congregationalist. Christians are Roman Catholic and

Sermon offered by Rev. Garvey MacLean, Guest Preacher II KINGS 5: 1-5 LUKE 17:11-19 The Second Book of Kings Chapter Five Verses one through five Naaman, commander of the army of the King of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because of him the Lord had given victory to

Mark 4:26-34 26 Then Jesus said, “This is what God’s kingdom is like. It’s as though someone scatters seed on the ground, 27 then sleeps and wakes night and day. The seed sprouts and grows, but the farmer doesn’t know how. 28 The earth produces crops all by itself, first the stalk, then the head,

Gospel of Peter 50-60 It’s the seventh Sunday of Easter. That’s it. The Easter Season is over. But, I don’t want it to end. I want this resurrection feeling to continue. It’s not the reason that our Wednesday morning Bible study started reading these gospels from outside of the Biblical canon, but it could be.

John 15:1-8 This just seems so odd. It seems strange to share this speech now. The resurrection happened five weeks ago — and here we are remembering the words that Jesus said as he prepared for his own death. In this particular gospel, Jesus has a lot to say before he dies. Without taking a

from Rev. Jill Saxby 1 John 3:16-24 Here we are in the third week of Easter. I love the old-fashioned name for this season, “Easter-tide.” The high tide moment of the whole Christian year is Easter, when we tell the story again of the women discovering Jesus’ empty tomb. Then, like the ocean’s tide, the

Luke 24:36-48 There is good reason to be startled. Let your doubts arise in your heart. It makes perfect sense. In fact, it seems to be to be the only logical response. Terror and fear are the only possible reaction when someone who has been dead stands before you and says, “Peace be with you.”

Message by John Brierly McCall, D. Min. [Last Sunday – on Easter – we looked at the way Mark tells about the empty tomb in his original account. And we saw how later editors and authors added to that early record. John, the latest and most poetic of the Gospels, has five separate accounts of Jesus’

Message by John Brierly McCall, D. Min. Mark 16:1-20 The great Yankees manager Casey Stengel once said: “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who haven’t made up their minds.” Good advice. So it may follow that on Easter morning the preacher’s job is to keep the