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What the Heart Wants
September 1, 2024 What the Heart Wants Romans 7:14-25 Rev. David Germer This is our second week in a sermon series leading up to our All Church Retreat in early October, at Montreat, where Eileen Gunther will lead us into...
Then Why Not Everyone
August 25, 2024 Then Why Not Everyone Daniel 6:16-23 Would you join me in prayer? God, thank you for this opportunity we have to listen carefully for your voice. Speak to us now by your spirit, wherever we are, to each of...
Don’t Drink the Water
August 18, 2024 Don’t Drink the Water Psalm 35:1-8; Revelation 3:14-16 Rev. David Germer Well, that’s one of the more troubling psalms, isn’t it? Asking God to draw spear and javelin against personal enemies, inviting...
Bread in the Storm
July 28, 2024 August 11, 2024 Bread in the Storm Acts 27:1, 18-25 The psalmist tells us that everything in creation is bent in the will of God toward God's purpose. The Apostle Paul found this when he boarded a ship and tried to...
Open Doors
July 28, 2024 August 4, 2024 Open Doors Acts 12:6-16 Rev. Shannon Jordan We are in a summer sermon series called The Good Book: Meeting Our Ancestors in Faith. We are looking at various stories in scripture not as...
Growing Up
July 28, 2024 Growing Up Luke 2: 41-52 The psalmist, remembering the faithfulness of God in younger days and praying for God's faithfulness when the psalmist is gray-headed in old age, connects with our theme this morning of...
God Has a Persistent Good Plan
July 21, 2024 God Has a Persistent Good Plan Genesis 50:15-20 Jesus’ call to unimaginably large forgiveness comes to life in the story of Joseph, as we will see in just a moment. This summer, we are in a series called...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Genesis 19:15-26Rev. Shannon JordanJuly 14, 2024Just before our passage this morning, Abraham and Sarah were visited by three men. Abrahamand Sarah showed them great hospitality. These men, two of whom seem to be angels and...
The Unwanted Name of Blessing
June 30, 2024 The Unwanted Name of Blessing Genesis 32:22-31 Rev. Lea Brown Glorious God, we thank you for this beautiful summer day. We thank you for this beautiful place in which to worship, God, which certainly is beautiful...
Open Wide Your Hearts
June 23, 2024 Open Wide Your Hearts 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 We are in a series this summer in 2 Corinthians, and today's reading comes from the sixth chapter of that letter. Paul is writing perhaps his most agonized and intimate...
Becoming New
June 16, 2024 Becoming New 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 Rev. Shannon Jordan So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by...
We Proclaim Jesus Christ
May 2, 2024 We Proclaim Christ Jesus Psalm 139 1-6, 13-18; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Sometimes, more often than we realize probably, the words of scripture have the power to stand on their own – if we will sit with them, let them...