Sermon archive

24 May 2009 (Ascension Sunday) NEW!
Laura Trent
"Looking Up and Down"
(Luke 24:44-53;Acts 1:1-11)
... If you look at these stories of the ascension with our 21st century eyes, they’re almost comical. Especially the Acts story, where the gathered disciples are standing around, craning their necks to watch Jesus as he moves up and out of sight. ...
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17 May 2009 (Easter 6)
Laura Trent
"Love One Another"
(John 15:9-17, 1 John 5:1-6)
... This is a letter to the early church, which struggled, obviously, with some of the same problems we do. ... The church elder who wrote the letter might say that the Beatles pretty much got it right: ...
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29 March 2009 (Lenten Series of Guest Speakers) NEW!
Jerry Barton
"Being on a Faith Journey"
(John 14,  Psalm 51)
... I grew up in a tradition where the congregation never interacted with each other... the service was still essentially bilateral between an individual in the pew and the individual in the pulpit. Here, we “interrupt” the holiness...
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22 March 2009 (Lenten Series of Guest Speakers) NEW!
Emil Persson
"You are the wind"
(John 3:1-8,16-18; Psalm 88)
... It is so easy to missunderstand Gods promises that as a kind off payoff for me being a christian God shall take care about everything in my life and give me a good life with a minimum of strives, fights and problems. But of course, when I look back on my life, ...
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8 March 2009 (Lenten Series of Guest Speakers) NEW!
Hayford Boateng
"What are we, what are you and what am I desperate about?"
(Mark 8: 27-38)
... Are we looking for right answers, stopping some habits and fall back on them after Lent, gossiping or pray and wait for the truth to prevail or for the strength needed not to fall back. ...
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22 February 2009 (30th Anniversary Sermon)
Helmut Nausner
"30th Anniversary of ESUMC"
(2 Cor 4:3-6)
... One Sunday morning after the worship service Lee came to me and said: »We will begin with English worship on October 1, 1978.« And so it was. Lee also said: »If you begin a program you keep it going. From now on there will be worship services every Sunday.« He spoke like a prophet ...
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24 Jan 2009 (Gospel Worship Service)
Laura Trent
"I can see clearly now"
(John 9:1-7,39)
... Winter…cold, dark, unfriendly winter. Now, a lot of people like winter, I know. ... I guess, really, the thing I don’t like about winter is the dark. ...
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18 Jan 2009 (Ephiphany 2)
Laura Trent
"Come and See"
(John 1:35-42)
... You have come to worship today at a Christian church. That means that sometime in your life, someone has said
to you “Come and see.” And you came and saw, and ...
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4 Jan 2009 (Ephiphany Sunday)
Laura Trent
"Promises, Promises"
(Isaiah 60: 1-6, Matt 2:1-12)
... For weeks before Christmas, we heard promise upon promise upon promise that God will send someone to save us from all our enemies, from all danger, someone who will make everything alright again. ... So if God has promised all this, and we say that these promises have been fulfilled in Jesus, why doesn’t it seem any different?
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