Sermons & Worship Audio

Raising rocks:  this land is whose land? Third Advent Sermon, by Jeff Taylor December 16, 2012 Listen to this Sermon Texts: Isaiah 12: 2 – 6, Luke 3: 7 – 18 [As Abraham:]  You seem surprised.  I guess I’m not quite what you were expecting?  You thought maybe someone a little older, more . . “patriach”-ish?  Maybe with white hair and a beard and a shepherd’s staff?  I’m not a common shepherd you know, I have people to do that…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Messages from my journey — leaving behind loved ones, and hard experiences! Second Advent Sermon, by Diana Gallego December 9, 2012  Texts: Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-6, Luke 1:68-79 

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon What can the fig tree tell us?  First Advent Sermon by Marilyn Zehr December 2, 2012  Texts: Psalm 25:1-10, Luke 21:25-36    Each year on the first Sunday of Advent, the gospel text for that Sunday is one of the mini-apocalypses found in either of Matthew, Mark or Luke and each year I wonder – how do we hear the apocalypse on this the first Sunday of one of the most anticipated times…

Eternity Sunday Sermon by Marilyn Zehr November 25, 2012 Listen to this Sermon Texts: Psalm 93, John 18:33-37 As Ed outlined for us, today is both eternity Sunday – and the last Sunday of our Christian Church Calendar – known in the broader Christian Church as Christ the King Sunday. On Eternity Sunday each year we remember our loved ones who have died in the last year.  With combined emotions of grief and love, we say our loved one’s name and…

Looking in the Global Mirror November 18, 2012 Sermon by Tim Schmucker (last in the 7-part series “Looking in the Mirror”) Texts: Matthew 5:1-16, 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 This is the 7th and last sermon in our fall series titles “Looking in the Mirror.” We’ve been through a lot, looking into the mirror, have we not? We’ve tried to see Christ in us here. We’ve certainly seen the many phony photoshopped body images in advertisements and media. And we’ve seen our…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Mud and Holy Wind  Sermon by Marilyn Zehr November 11, 2012  Texts: 1 Corinthians 3:10-17, Psalm 65  This morning’s sermon is my last sermon on our theme, Looking in the mirror and paying attention to our bodies, individually and corporately. Today I will address us one more time – locally. Next week Tim will preach a sermon about the Body of Christ globally to conclude our series. Do you recall in your early…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Sermon by Michele Rizoli Peace Sunday November 4, 2012  Texts: Psalm 24:1-8, Isaiah 65: 17-25 This week I saw an ad in the subway that said: “Two hundred years of peace make it easy to forget a war.” I thought “AMEN, thank goodness, let’s celebrate two hundred years of peace, Ain’t gonna study war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more.”  Oh, wait, there’s one more line to the ad, it says…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon Sermon by Marilyn Zehr Taking it Off Line? October 28, 2012  Texts: Psalm 34:1-8, Colossians 1: 15-20   Okay, last week’s sermon, chock full as it was of information about trending technological changes and how they are shaping and changing us, probably came across a bit like an instruction manual for putting together Ikea furniture.   Who reads those instruction manuals anyway?  Helpful maybe – but only if you manage to figure them…

View Archived Sermons Listen to this Sermon – opening Listen to this Sermon – continuation  Sermon by Marilyn Zehr Looking at the Mirror  October 21, 2012  Texts: Psalm 15:1-5, James 1: 17-27   This morning’s sermon topic is as challenging as it is important.  Its importance is so great that I view what I say this morning as merely the beginning and hope that others will experience a call to take it from here. Our fall theme continues to be “Looking in the…

View Archived SermonsListen to this Sermon Sermon by Aldred H. Neufeldt Looking in the Mirror 3:  In strength, weakness  October 14, 2012  Texts: Psalm 90: 1 – 4, 12-17, Jonah 2:1-10, Hebrews 5:7 – 6:10 In today’s sermon we return to our Fall theme and question: “what reflection of God do we see when we look at our bodies in the mirror?”  That we ask the question should not be a surprise.  Christians cannot be other than a people who…