Listen to the sermon: Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 Luke 14:25-33 What would it mean to have no control at all? There’s something about being the father of a newborn that makes you ask this question. First, Put yourself in the place of the [...]
Listen to the sermon: Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 How many of you watched the Braves’ game on Friday night? If you read the blog two weeks ago while I wrote about hockey, you might be wondering if I’ve got any [...]
Neill McKay Gracious God, we are here, gathered in your community to strengthen one another, to grow in faith with one another, because we don’t always pray as we should, we don’t always follow the spirit of the law as Jesus taught us. We ask for the Spirit to fill us with the confidence that [...]
Listen to the sermon: Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Jeremiah 1:4-10 Luke 13:10-17 If you want to train an elephant, start when they’re young. That’s what you come to church for, right? Good, solid, practical advice! Now, don’t be so quick to dismiss this teaching. Maybe one [...]
Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Luke 12:49-56 Isaiah 5:1-7 What are you passionate about? What is it that gets you out of bed in the morning? What is it that thrills you, that excites you, that ignites passion within you? When I was a kid, I would [...]
Evan Carter Luke 12:32-40 Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 And yet another cherry, prophetic message for us this morning… Those of you visiting with us, we have been taking a look at various Old Testament prophets all summer. We see a lot of God’s anger in these writings and it can be confusing to not only [...]
Jill Tolbert Luke 12:13-21 Hosea 11:1-11 One of my favorite authors is Anne Lamott, who, according to her agent, “writes about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus.” She is sharp and witty–insightful and real. If you’ve never read anything by her, check her out. She’s good. At any rate, I just recently [...]
Evan Carter Luke 11:1-13 Hosea 1:2-10 After hearing this reading, you’re probably thinking the same thing I thought last week…. So this is why Marthame is out this week. Well done Marthame, well done. Actually, the reality is, we’ve been reading difficult texts like this all summer long. [RECAP] For those of you who haven’t [...]
Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Luke 10:38-42 Amos 8:1-12 You know, this whole prophet sermon series seemed like a good idea at the time. When Elijah and Elisha are healing people or raising the dead or feeding widows or taking on Ahab and Jezebel, that was OK. [...]
(the service didn’t get recorded this week. sorry. But here’s a bonus special message from Marthame) Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Luke 10:25-37 Amos 7:7-17 How do we measure up? When we first moved into our house, the master bathroom had no shower. But there was a [...]