Beautiful Simplicity

Reading: Matthew 6:19-34, 19:13-30

Continuing with our "Deep, Beautiful, Fearless" theme, this week's focus was on the need for simplicity. Sometimes in order to follow Christ more closely, we need to do less, not more.

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Preached on September 23, 2012 at PLWC.

Deeper Prayer

Reading: Psalm 77, Daniel 6:6-13, 16-23; Acts 6:8-15, 7:54-60

So how do we start becoming the deep, beautiful, fearless people God wants us to be? It has to begin with prayer. This is not our work, but God’s work within us.

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Preached on September 16, 2012 at PLWC.

Deep, Beautiful, Fearless

Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21; Revelation 2:1-7; Luke 10:1-24

This week was our fall kickoff of sorts, but it was also bigger than that. I've been pushing people for the last couple of months to plan on being here for last Sunday's sermon because it sets the tone for a lot of what we're going to be doing in the future. The sermon is longer than usual (so if you download the recording, you'll get a warning that it's too big for the online virus scanner -- don't worry about that, just click on "Download anyway"). Also, the credit for the music in the first part of the recording is:

Sunsets And Rockers (Rebecca Foon) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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Preached on September 9, 2012 at PLWC.

Two Sermons: "Peace With Others" and "It Doesn't Have to Be Like This"

Aaaand we’re caught up! I would promise not to get behind again in the future, but I think we all know better. Below we have the last sermon (a communion sermon) in our short series on peace, followed by a sermon setting us up for next week’s worship service.

“Peace With Others”

Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-15, 4:7-19

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Preached on August 26, 2012 at PLWC.

“It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This”

Reading: Deuteronomy 30:11-20; 2 Timothy 1:6-14

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Preached on September 2, 2012 at PLWC.