Luke 17: 5-10 Nate Hosler Our passage includes a mulberry tree. As a preacher it’s good to make some sort of illustrative connection to some part or lesson of the scripture which helps the listeners to better understand, imagine, or remember the story. So the mulberry tree. As a child I grew up on a…
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Highway to Hell
1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31 Micah Bales Ever since I first looked over the scripture readings for this morning, I’ve been debating with myself whether we should listen to the song “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC. I think it would be fun, but the fact that I don’t know how the sound system in here…
Strange Fruit
Amos 8; 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Jennifer Hosler (sermon adapted from Brethren Press curriculum written by the author, 2015) Next Saturday, our city and country will celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It’s been more than 100 years in the making—first lobbied for by African-American veterans of the…
A SERMON IN FOUR SCRIPTURES
Exodus 32:7-14 Psalm 51:1-10 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 Jeff Davidson If you look up a dictionary definition for “preach,” you will find that one of the definitions is “to give religious or moral instruction, particularly in a tedious manner.” One popular form of preaching is “expository preaching.” According to Wikipedia, this is a…
AS IF
Luke 14:1, 7-14 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Jeff Davidson The two words “as if” have been standard English for a long time. Used together, they mean “as would be the case if”, for example, “She behaved as if he weren’t there.” For a little while, though, back in 1995 and for a few years after,…
WARNINGS, MOUNTAINS, AND CONSUMING FIRE
Hebrews 12:14-29; Psalm 103:1-8 Jennifer Hosler Nate and I recently spent time in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The landscape is staggeringly beautiful. Expanses of sheer, sharp mountains, turquoise lakes, acres and acres of pine trees, aspen trees, and larch trees. We hiked most days and found ourselves climbing steeply through fields of alpine wildflowers and…
THINGS ABOVE
Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 Jeff Davidson I was here two weeks ago, and at that time I talked about how Christ is in each of us. I spoke from Colossians chapter 1 and said that one of the things that Paul was trying to do was to combat the Gnostic heresy. That’s a heresy that…
LISTENING DIFFERENTLY
Galatians 3:23-29 Christy Crouse Good Morning! My name is Christy Crouse and I’m a rising senior at Truman State University in Missouri and I have been interning with the Office of Public Witness here the past four weeks, and have definitely been interested in its work for quite some time now. If some of you…
Tiger, Sacrament, and Miracle
Don Kraybill Visiting preacher Don Kraybill gave a sermon on forgiveness using the following verses from the Message Bible by Gene Peterson: Matthew 6:9-15 Luke 11:2-4 Matthew 18:21-22 Matthew 18:34-35 Mark 11:25 Luke 6:37-38 Luke 17:3-4 John 20:23 2 Corinthians 2:5-7,10 Colossians 3:13
SPIRIT OF LOVE AND POWER
John 14:8-17, 25-27; Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:11-17 Jennifer Hosler Have you ever bent over and struggled to walk in a powerful, overwhelming wind? During the first year that Nate and I were married, we lived one block from Lake Michigan in Chicago. Several times I had to stoop over and brace myself to get to…
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