LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
An Unacceptable Prophet Luke 4:21-30 (NRSV) Today’s message comes to us around the midpoint of the Epiphany season. We have been traveling mostly with Luke this Epiphany season and today we will use Luke’s account to travel with Jesus as he returns to his hometown. Luke positions the narrative to correspond to the beginning […]
GCI Sermon – 30January2022 Read More »
Sermon Review Jesus Declares Jubilee Luke 4:14-30 ESV You have to imagine this scene as it first happened. This is probably a relatively small, humble setting. The synagogue would have been crowded and well-used, not unlike a lively rural church that smells like old coffee and Pine-Sol. The congregants are the oppressed, occupied
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Jesus Declares Jubilee Luke 4:14-30 ESV You have to imagine this scene as it first happened. This is probably a relatively small, humble setting. The synagogue would have been crowded and well-used, not unlike a lively rural church that smells like old coffee and Pine-Sol. The congregants are the oppressed, occupied people of Israel.
GCI Sermon – 23January2022 Read More »
SERMON REVERB The Beginning of the Great Reversal John 2:1-5,6-11 (NRSV) If you remember the movie The Wizard of Oz, you probably remember at the beginning how the main character Dorothy Gale was feeling down and misunderstood by her family. Her dog Toto was taken away by the nasty lady Miss Gulch to be euthanized because he
Monday Reverb – 17January2022 Read More »
The Beginning of the Great Reversal John 2:1-11 (NRSV) If you remember the movie The Wizard of Oz, you probably remember at the beginning how the main character Dorothy Gale was feeling down and misunderstood by her family. Her dog Toto was taken away by the nasty lady Miss Gulch to be euthanized because he had chased
GCI Sermon – 09January2022 Read More »
SERMON REVERB Made Extraordinary by Jesus Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Have you ever been so committed to a cause or relationship that you felt nothing could stop you? We only get a few of those moments — falling in love, going on a mission trip, having kids, finding our vocation — that fill our veins
Monday Reverb – 10January2022 Read More »
For the Sake of Other People Continuing our focus on Healthy Church, the 2022 theme for Equipper and our GCI media team is “Compelled by Love.” The church of Jesus Christ exists for the sake of other people. I spent most of my life with an “us and them” point of view. The main “us
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SERMON REVERB A New Light, A New Beginning John 1:1-4,6-13,14-18 Scientifically speaking, there is no magic in the coming of a new year. Most people understand that New Year’s Day celebrates another successful trip of the earth around the sun and not some mystical “reset button” on our lives. We intellectually understand that we will
Monday Reverb – 03January2022 Read More »