New Testament Passage: Luke 18: 1 - 8 (Not what is listed in the bulletin)
The Sermon from February 17, 2008. Click on the mp3 logo on the left for the podcast. Click on the Word logo on the right for the bulletin and liturgy from this worship gathering.
New Testament Passage: Matthew 5: 21 - 48.
Is there perhaps a message within the message from the repetition and formulaic use of “You have heard…” “But I say…”?
It’s easy to get lost in the myriad of “details” in these verses. We struggled last Sunday with trying to wrap our heads around the possibility that repeating the same literary formula five different times in these verses could perhaps tell us something as well.
Click the mp3 icon on the left for the audio file. The MS Word icon on the right is the worship liturgy from the bulletin.
Our sermon last Sunday night from 1st Samuel 25 - The Story of David and Abigal somehow got recorded over with about 10 minutes of conversation after worship! So obviously, we don’t have a podcast of a great sermon that centered on this theme:
Sometimes we all need an Abigail in our lives, kneeling in front of us and beseeching us: “Don’t do what you are thinking! You don’t have to sink to the level of others and repay them in kind! That’s not God’s call on our lives!”
It was a powerful idea to think through. Sorry we don’t have the conversation to share with you. The liturgy points to the idea Eugene Peterson shared in his book “Leap Over a Wall” about seeing Abigail as an icon.
New Testament Passage: Colossians chapter 3
Click the mp3 link on the left for the download of our sermon from Colossians chapter 3, on January 13, 2008.
Click the MS Word link on the right for the liturgy from the same worship service.