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Archive for 2009/11


What Are You Waiting For? Looking for Clues

(the service didn’t get recorded this week. sorry. But you can listen to a special message from Marthame) Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Jeremiah 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-36 Advent is a season in the church year; it’s the four weeks before Christmas, and those four weeks represent the 400 [...]

What Are You Waiting For? Getting Started

Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 John 18:33-37 We have come to the end of our liturgical year. Next week, as we go into Advent, we’ll be wishing each other Happy New Year. The sermon series we’re beginning this week will continue through Advent, called, “What [...]

Otterbein College Concert Choir Comes to OPC

OGLETHORPE PRESBYTERIAN PRESENTS COLLEGE CHORAL CONCERT On Tuesday, December 1 at 7:30 PM, Oglethorpe Presbyterian Church will present a concert of sacred music featuring the Otterbein College Choir from Westerville (Columbus) Ohio. The Otterbein Choir, under the direction of Dr. Gayle Walker has a rich history of touring and performing and outstanding choral singing. The [...]

Moment for Stewardship

Paul Reynolds I first came to OPC two years ago this month. I happened by the church after having moved in close by…well, looking back, God was definitely at work to send me this way. I look at it as having returned to my religious roots. I was baptized and raised in a Presbyterian Church [...]

Getting Back on Track: Going for It

Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) I Samuel 2 Mark 13:1-8 We have come to the end of the sermon series we began in September of Getting Back on Track. Through that sermon series, we have been talking about how it is the life knocks us off and [...]

Getting Back on Track: Knowing When We Have Enough

Tiffany Kromer (Tiffany’s sermons and other reflections are on her blog) Psalm 127 Mark 12:38-44 This fall we have been focusing our sermon time together on getting our lives back on track as we follow Jesus on his journey and the stops he makes along the way. Today we will read from the gospel of [...]

Moment for Stewardship

Jim Anderson Earlier this year I was having dinner with a friend who is facing difficult financial circumstances, and he said to me, “You know you have been lucky. You sold your house when prices were high, and each time you have lost a job you have wound up with another job making more money”. [...]

Moment for Stewardship

Donavon Graves I was very humbled to be asked to speak in front of the congregation this past Sunday. After some deliberation of what I was going to say, my thoughts kept centering on a message that came straight from the heart. Since I didn’t have any bells and whistles or fireworks to throw out [...]

Healing Service

Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) 1 Kings 17:10-16 John 11:32-44 The John text is the same one we read this morning in worship. In the context of a service for healing and wholeness, it has a different flavor to it, especially after hearing that story of Elijah [...]

Getting Back on Track: When It’s Hopeless

Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Psalm 24 John 11:32-44 Over the past few months, we’ve gone with this topic of Getting Back on Track. We have used the journey of faith, this metaphor of progression (or so we assume), of following along with the footsteps of Jesus. [...]