A Sermon by Senior Minister, John B. McCall, September 12, 2010 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Matthew 6:25-34 When Elsa and I were planning for this fall, we talked about this Sunday that’s in between Labor Day last weekend, and Homecoming next weekend. We thought about calling today: “Summer’s Over – Handle It!” Instead we decided to call […]
A sermon by Associate Minister, Elsa A. Peters, September 5, 2010 Amos 5:18-24 Let justice roll. That seems to be the call heard from the Lincoln Memorial last week as a group of Americans – a large group of Americans that exceeded the 300,000-person permit – gathered to restore honor. Let justice roll. We hear
A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, August 29, 2010 Matthew 7:24-27 Five years ago today Hurricane Katrina was unleashing its terrifying force on the southern Gulf Coast. The Category 5 storm clocked winds of 175 mph and whipped the oceans into a frenzy. Then the winds subsided and rains eased. Some folks thought
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A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, August 22, 2010 Mark 1:14-20 Cue the music. Open that red book and hear the crescendo as the NBC host announces, “Andrew, disciple of Christ, this is your life.” But, that’s about where the television special would end because we really don’t know much about Andrew. He
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A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, August 15, 2010 Romans 16:1-20 Wait, the psalmist calls. Calls us to worship. Calls us to praise. Calls us to lament. Calls us to pay attention to what is happening within us. Wait, we hear the call. Wait for the Lord. Our souls wait. Again and again.
A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, August 8, 2010 Mark 14:43-50 He’s the betrayer. When he first appears in the gospel account, we meet him by this name. The betrayer. The traitor. “One of the twelve,” but not like the rest. He’s “Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.” In some of the gospels, this
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A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, August 1, 2010 John 20:19-31 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with
A sermon by Senior Minister, John B. McCall, July 25, 2010 Acts 6:8-15 Acts 7:1-60 Acts 8:1-3 In the early days of the Christian community, as the Gospel message was taking root, there were both Jews and Greeks in Jerusalem who wanted to follow the rabbi Jesus. But they didn’t agree on some important matters.
A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, July 18, 2010 John 1:35-42 Martha, Martha, Martha. She appears only three times in the gospels – once when Jesus comes to visit her home, once in this story where her brother Lazarus has died and once where Mary washes Jesus’ feet with her hair. That last
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A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, July 11, 2010 Luke 8:1-3 John 20:1-18 She was Mary from Magdala – usually called Mary Magdalene in the Gospels. But who was she really? A great sinner who was greatly forgiven? A woman possessed by evil spirits whom Jesus freed? One of many disciples who were
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