Sermons on Spiritual Growth

Sermons on Spiritual Growth

Stay In Love With God

Sunday October 23 2022Three Simple Rules: Stay In Love With GodColossians 2: 6-15Adam Lubbers, Preaching THE TABLE8:30AM GatheringSongs  Great Things; Build My Life; Lean BackChildren’s TimeScripture Colossians 2: 6-15 NRSVMessage Stay In Love With GodGratitude MomentSong Firm Foundation (He Won’t)CommunionInvitation & BenedictionSong Reaching for YouExit TRADITIONAL WORSHIP11:00AM Prelude Rays of Hope (Eithun)Welcome Voluntary Rays of Hope (Eithun)Call to WorshipHymn Grace Greater Than Our Sin (UMH 365 v 1-4)Creed & Gloria Patri (UMH 70)Preparation for PrayerCall to Prayer Lead Me, Lord (UMH 473)Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s PrayerChildren’s Time Where Children Belong (TFWS 2233)Scripture Colossians 2:6-15 NRSVSermon Stay In…

Do Good

Sunday October 16 2022THree Simple Rules: Do GoodJohn 13: 34-45; Ephasians2:8-10Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch THE TABLE8:30AM GatheringSongs  Your Grace Is Enough; Our God; CarrierChildren’s TimeScripture John 13:34-35; Ephesians 2:8-10 NRSVMessage Do GoodGratitude MomentSong Love Came DownCommunionInvitation & BenedictionSong Send Me OutExit TRADITIONAL WORSHIP11:00AM Prelude Welcome Voluntary Awake, Awake to Love and Work Call to WorshipHymn Lord God, Your Love Has Called Us Here (UMH 579 v 1-5)Creed & Gloria Patri (UMH 70)Call to Prayer Lead Me, Lord (UMH 473)Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s PrayerChildren’s Time Where Children Belong (TFWS 2233)Scripture John 13:34-35; Ephesians 2:8-10 NRSVSermon Do GoodHymn Awake, Awake…

Do No Harm

Sunday October 9 2022Three Simple Rules: Do No HarmRomans 12:14-19, 13:8-9Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch The Table8:30am GatheringSongs  God So Loved; The Way; Yet Not I But Through Christ In MeChildren’s TimeScripture Romans 12:14-19, 13:8-9 NRSVMessage Do No HarmGratitude MomentSong DifferentCommunionInvitation & BenedictionSong Sing Wherever I GoExit Traditional Worship11:00am Prelude Welcome Voluntary Sanctus (Norden)Call to WorshipHymn When Charity And Love Prevail (UMH 549 v 1-6)Call to Prayer Lead Me, Lord (UMH 473)Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s PrayerChildren’s Time Where Children Belong (TFWS 2233)Scripture Romans…

The Widow’s Way

Sunday november 7 2021The Widow’s WayMark 12: 38-44Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Scripture 38 As Jesus taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”41 He sat down opposite the…

Refresh: God’s Beloved Child

Sunday January 24 2021Refresh: God’s Beloved Child1 John 3:1-3, 4:7-10 NRSV   Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like…

Refresh: Week Three

January 17 2021Refresh: Week ThreeNEHEMIAH 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 NRSVRev Jessica Wright 1 All the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had given to Israel. 2 Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. 3 He read…

Refresh: Week Two

Sunday January 10 2021Refresh: Week TWOjeremiah 31: 31-34 NRSVRev Mary Beth hardesty-Crouch   31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the…