Sermon October 10, 2021

Living with the Living Word Hebrews 4:12-16   The story is told that George Whitfield, the great Eighteenth-Century evangelist, was hounded by a group of detractors who called themselves the “Hellfire Club.” After hearing George Whitfield preach in May 1750, John Thorpe and three friends went to a tavern and began mimicking Whitfield. At Thorpe’s

Sermon for October 3, 2021 -Worldwide Communion Sunday

Gathered Together Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12   Today many churches celebrate Worldwide Communion Sunday. John A. Dalles of the Presbyterian Church tells of its beginnings. He writes in part:   “If you were to turn on to a quiet, tree lined street in the East End of Pittsburgh, and if you were to make your way

Sermon September 26, 2021

Stepping-stones or Stumbling Blocks Mark 9:38-52   There is an old joke about the three ministers who were out in a boat on a lake. The first one says, “Hey I forgot our sandwiches,” and so the second one says don’t worry I’ll go get them and he steps out of the boat, walks across

Sunday’s Sermon September 19, 2021

THE PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP Mark 9:30-37       Have you ever been mistaken about something in life? That is a loaded question, isn’t it? Who has not gone through life and made some mistakes, or held some misconceptions about what life was about or about God?     I remember, my grandfather had a small religious tract. Beginning

Sermon for September 12, 2021

“‘Cross’ Ways Living” Mark 8:27-38 The Game of Life When I was young, sometimes we would play Milton Bradley’s game of Life. Do you remember that game? You would spin the wheel of fate and move along the board. The object of the game seemed to be to acquire enough money to end up in

Sermon for September 5, 2021

“Doing Your Best” Mark 7:31-37   Someone Give Me a Well Done When I was in Seminary, I had a class with one teacher of the New Testament who was noted for being rather demanding. The first paper I wrote in seminary was in one of his classes and I got a “C”. His comment

Sermon August 29, 2021

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23Wash your Heart When I was but a child, I remember how we used to go and visit my grandparents. My brothers, and my cousins, and I would be outside playing, and then we would hear this big old bell mounted to my grandparents back porch. It would start ringing, and we

Health Department Notice August 26, 2021

As according to this statement regarding the increased transmission levels of the Covid virus, it is advisable for all who are sharing in indoor worship to once more return to wearing a mask. While this is not what we want to hear, I believe being proactive toward these health issues is the best way to

Sermon for August 22, 2021

Are You Satisfied? John 6:56-69   Are You Satisfied?     Are you Satisfied? The past few weeks we have been thinking about Jesus feeding the five thousand and the aftermath. There was the miracle of Jesus feeding so many with so little. In this the people encounter the providence and the care of God as they

Sermon for August 15, 2021

JOHN 6:51-58 “Eating Bread”           According to an issue of Smithsonian magazine (March 2014) in 1961 Michael Rockefeller, a son of then-New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller disappeared in the jungles of New Guinea while collecting artifacts from a Papuan tribe. His body was never found.In this same area today exist remote tribes that have rarely