Ending at the Beginning

Sermon Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014, Ending at the Beginning.  The scripture text was John 20:1-18.  What has to end for us to truly begin?

Our Inheritance

Sunday, May 4, 2014 - Native American Ministries Sunday and Heritage Sunday.  Our congregation has a long tradition dating back to when we were chartered in Oklahoma in 1874, but it also began 50 years before that with Methodist missionaries with the Cherokee in North Carolina.

Sermon:  Our Inheritance on the scripture text  1 Peter 1:3-9

Jesus' Bucket List

Since I am behind on my posting of my sermons, I thought I'd just post my Lent Sermon Series as one post.

Jesus’ Bucket List:  What Jesus did before his death.  What do you want to do before you die?

March 9, 2014 – Matthew 4:1-11 

             Sermon:  Go on a Spontaneous Road Trip

March 16, 2014 – John 3:1-17

            Sermon:  Be the Change

March 23, 2014 – John 4:5-42      

            Sermon:  Be an Inspiration to Someone

           

March 30, 2014 – John 9:1-41

            Sermon:  Change Someone’s Life

                       

April 6, 2014 – John 11:1-45

            Sermon:  Save a Life

Blind Faith

Sermon February 23, 2014 on the text Matthew 5:38-48.  An "eye for an eye" is a familiar saying we get from this passage, but it stops short of the real meaning.  We are to forgive, turn the other cheek, give, and pray for our enemies.  Hard stuff in this passage.  What does it mean for us.

Fat Babies

Sermon February, 16, 2014 on the text 1 Corinthians 3:1-9.  Can you handle the solid food?  Or are you happy just being a fat baby? 

Sodium Free Diet

Jesus tells us to be salt and light.  Not boring and bland.  Not dull and lifeless.  The sermon February 9, 2014, on Matthew 5:13-20 challenges us to live as salt and light.  Not legalistic or exclusionary, but as Christ in the world.

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Sermon February 2, 2014, on Micah 6:1-8.  We have the image of God in us which imbues us with the ability to love, to sacrifice, to care for one another, but we also have tendencies to hatred, anger, greed, oppression, and selfishness.  The Cherokees refer to these two sides to our nature as two wolves.  Which won wins?  The one you feed.

Follow Me

Call to Worship

Friends we have come together as a community of faith; people who are connected to Christ and to one another.

Let us never forget the commitments we have made to serve God as well as love and support one another.

We come today with the purpose of renewing our covenant to follow Christ—to follow where God may lead and to share the message of love in words of proclamation and acts of social justice.

Open our minds, Lord, to the ways we can give all that we are to transforming the world around us.  Transform us so that we could truly seek your way of peace and grace.

Sermon, January 26, 2014, on the text Matthew 4:12-23.  We like to think we are good followers of Jesus, but what does it really mean to follow Jesus.  Let's see what Matthew has to say about it. 

We also renewed our covenant with Wesley's Covenant Prayer. 

I am no longer my own but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering.  Let me be employed for you or laid aside for you; exalted for you or brought low for you. Let me be full, let me be empty;let me have all things, let me have nothing. I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.  And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am yours. So be it.

And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.

Following in His Footsteps

God's voice speaks to our chaos, echoing in our hearts;
gathering us together to remember our baptism.
God's voice flows like the living waters of grace,
our new name, 'Beloved,' resounding in our souls.
God's voice stirs the waters of baptismal hope,
calling us to be bearers of peace to a world of broken hopes.

On January 12, 2013, we remember our baptism.  This Sermon, "Following in His Footsteps" looks at the story of Jesus' baptism as found in Matthew 3:13-17.  

Remember your baptism and be thankful.