God With US

Reading: Genesis 4:1-16

This week, the week of Christmas, I preached on one of the least Christmasy stories I could think of, mostly because it's the sort of story we've got to understand if we're going to understand Christmas.

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Preached on December 20, 2009 at PLWC.

God WITH Us

Reading: John 1:1-14

We're continuing with our Advent theme for this year: God With Us. This week we focused on the second word to see how God is with us.

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Preached on December 13, 2009 at PLWC.

GOD With Us

Reading: Isaiah 7:1-14; Matthew 1:18-23

No sermon for last week since Carey and I were away visiting family for Thanksgiving. This week, however, we're starting our series for Advent focusing on God With Us, one of the titles given to Jesus.

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Preached on December 6, 2009 at PLWC.

Making Sense of the Senseless

Reading: John 18:33-37; Revelation 1:4b-8

This Sunday was Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday in the Christian calendar, meaning that we end our year by proclaiming that Jesus Christ is the King of all things. We celebrated at PLWC with a communion service.

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Preached on November 22, 2009 at PLWC.

The End

Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9; 2:4-12

1 Peter is one of those books that I keep coming around to because I'm continually intrigued by it. This week we looked at one of Peter's assumptions underlying his message in this book. Since our main focus in on glorifying God, he says, we are free to do a lot of things that might be counter-intuitive otherwise.

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Preached on November 15, 2009 at PLWC.