Lectionary ReadingsSermon Text: Matthew 22:34-46
Sermon Title: “Paring it Down”
Sermon Notes: Not all religious teaching is of equal importance. Love is the key to prioritizing, interpreting, and applying.
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Sermon Text: Matthew 22:15-22
Sermon Title: “Rendering Unto Caesar”
Sermon Notes: There are still those today who want the civic arena and the spiritual arena to be blended, unified, one. Listen to Jesus of all people saying, “No,” to that notion. We have political and civic responsibilities, but no government can be above God.
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Linked below is a great summary regarding the Presbyterian (and somewhat Lutheran, in our case) theological understanding of infant baptism. While adults and older children are baptized in the PC(U.S.A.) and ELCA, the tradition of the Reformation churches is to baptize infants soon after birth. Why is this?
Baptism is a sign and a seal of [...]
Sermon Text: Philippians 4:1-9
Sermon Title: “Think on These Things”
Sermon Notes: What in the world shall we do to settle a spat between two key congregational leaders that is now an open, negative conflict that is tearing the church apart? At the heart of almost all congregational conflict is preoccupation with selfishness that displaces God’s good gifts and a [...]
Sermon Text: Philippians 3:4b-14
Sermon Title: “It Works”
Sermon Notes: The apostle Paul pondered what really mattered to him. If we are fortunate, we have an opportunity in life to evaluate whether or not those values or principles that, in the past, have given meaning to our lives can honestly carry us through the present and on into the future.
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