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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, October 17, 2021.How can one man's death 2000 years ago affect me? When James and John go to Jesus and to ask Him to be at his left and right hand in his glory, they did not understand. Jesus asked them if they could drink from the cup that he drinks. But when Jesus spoke about his glory, it meant his death. And cup is a metaphor for suffering.
Jesus' death has no affect unless his death kills everything in us that’s killing us. That's our cross. And that's the cross Jesus is asking his disciplines to pick up. Life and death swirl together in the cup. The cup of salvation also has with it the cup of death. Jesus gave his life as ransom for many and asks us to pick up the cross and carry it all the way. Are you able to drink the cup?
Gospel Lesson: Mark 10: 35-45
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, October 10, 2021. What's in it for me? In the gospel lesson today, the disciple Peter wants to know. He wants to know what's in it for him -- what's in it for them to follow Jesus. He tells Peter that the first shall be last and the last shall be first in the kingdom of God, in eternal life.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 10: 17-31
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, October 3, 2021. There is DIVINE INTENT. The way God wants it to be. And then there is HUMAN REALITY. These two concepts are illustrated in the first words of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. In this gospel lesson, Pastor Randy tells us that Jesus, in his time, recognized human reality but did not give up on the idea of God's divine intent. The church should be a place to help bridge that gap -- the church should be a place of welcome, acceptance, and healing. That gap is bridged by grace.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 10: 2-16
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, September 26, 2021. This week's message comes directly after the events of last week's message. Jesus told his disciples that they didn’t get it. It's not about the greatness they were thinking about. He told them -- if you want to be first, you have to be last. You need to be child-like, so innocent, you need to be like that to serve the lost and marginalized.
Jesus then turns the volume and the tone up with his disciples. And the urgency of his teaching was rising as they get closer to Jerusalem. John goes to Jesus and tells him that they saw someone casting out demons in Jesus name. Jesus said don't stop him. "For no one who does a deed of power in my name, will soon there after be able to speak evil of me."
Gospel Lesson: Mark 9:38-50
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, September 19, 2021. In this gospel message, Pastor Randy tell us about Jesus and the 12 disciples on their way to Jerusalem, teaching them that when He is gone, it will be their responsibility to continue His teachings. But they did not understand what He was saying. And they were afraid to ask.
During one teaching, He take a child in his arms and says, "whoever welcomes one such child in my name, welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me, but the one who sent me." This child has nothing to offer and that child is a stand-in for everyone who has nothing. His arms are open to all, even those with nothing.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 9:30-37
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, September 12, 2021. In this lesson, we revisit the reading from Mark from the previous week and but also Pastor Randy tells us how we can better understand the word of God. As long as we pray, are persistent, and follow the breadcrumbs, much like the gentile woman who visited Jesus to heal her daughter -- we will always feel the presence of Jesus and his grace.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 7:24-37
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, September 5, 2021. A woman, a mother, is at her wit’s end. Her daughter is ill, perhaps struggling with seizures, or a form of mental illness, or bouts of temper. The woman believes her daughter to be possessed by a demon. So she goes to Jesus, even though she is a gentile and is not allowed to speak to him -- as Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi. She continues to be persistent and begs Jesus to help her child. Nothing and no one can stop her. She won't take no for an answer.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 7:24-37
Melody Taylor - Children's Message Presenter & Guest Preacher
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, August 29, 2021. “Why is it that your followers don't wash their hands before they eat?" Jesus took to task the Pharisees and scribes for their ideas of “purity” and their judgment of those who did not conform to their standards of piety. Purity comes from within, from the state of the heart. Not from ritual behavior. Let's get back to the heart of the matter. Jesus says it's not about what we do, even though what we do can be helpful. What's important is what comes from the heart.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, August 22, 2021. How we eat is how we live. And we live in a hurry. Because we live in a hurry, we eat in a hurry. In the gospel lesson, Jesus tells us that we should chew slowly. And he wants us to chew slowly on his word. In this message, Pastor Randy completes the Bread of Life discourse.
Gospel Lesson: John 6: 51-58
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, August 15, 2021. In this message, guest preacher Rev. Jonathan Glass-Riley presents a sermon about a subject that we all have to deal with a some point in our lives. Death. Grieving. And how we continue to go on living. How does a family recover? What does a community do to heal. Because when grief changes our world, how do we take our next breath? How do we put one foot in front of the other. And what it means to survive, and to thrive, and to love in new ways?
Rev. Jonathan Glass-Riley is the senior pastor at Lakewood Baptist Church in Lakewood, OH
Gospel Lesson: Matthew 14:1-21
Rev. Jonathan Glass-Riley - Guest Preacher
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, August 8, 2021. There's something about food that says, "I love you." And food is a central way that God says, "I love you." When we hear the Bread of Life discourse from the Gospel of John, most people think of communion and the lord's supper. But John makes reference to food throughout the gospel as he references Jesus as the living bread. So what does Jesus mean when he says, “I am the Bread of Life?” He means that we are not satisfied spiritually unless we know Jesus; we are not spiritually satisfied unless we have Jesus in our lives. Jesus is the bread of life. It's that food which nourishes us and gives us eternal life.
Gospel Lesson: John 6: 35, 41-51
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, August 1, 2021. This week, guest preacher Nancy Reid tells us about the fairness of life. Sometimes life just isn't fair. But when life isn't fair and we need to be heard, we also need to remember to listen. This will help us to ensure that fairness is not confused with justice. Justice is different. We might need to accept fairness, but we must fight for justice. And the parable of the day laborers is a perfect illustration.
Nancy Reid is an Evansville, IN native and currently lives near the University of Evansville. She retired from Central United Methodist Church as Director of Family Ministries. Nancy continues to worship at Central. She has two grown daughters and five grandchildren.
Gospel Lesson: Matthew 20: 1-16
Nancy Reid - Guest Preacher
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, July 25, 2021. Pastor Randy tells us about the rise and downward spiral of the great King David, the sins he committed, and his confession. And David's story is the human story. Even after all of our giftedness and the ways God has empowered us to do his will on earth. We have that tendency to grasp and to take. When all we need for our joy and happiness is the gift that we already have. The good news is that we aren't left in our guilt, but we are called to repentance. And we are forgiven.
Scripture Lesson: 2 Samuel 11: 1-15
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, July 18, 2021. Taken. Blessed. Broken. Given. Pastor Randy's message today deals with those four words. What God says about Jesus, He says it about you. You are my son. You are my daughter. You are the be loved. It is critically important that we understand and own this. It is critically important that we don’t just receive it intellectually in our minds, but that we accept it in our hearts that we are the children of God every bit as much as Jesus is a son of God. You are the beloved.
Just as Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it, Jesus is taken, blessed, broken and given. And just as Jesus is, you are taken, blessed, broken, and given for the benefit of the world.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6: 30-44
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, July 11, 2021. In today's story from the book of Mark, he uses the literary device of a flashback. When Herod Antipas, the son of King Herod, heard about Jesus and all that he was doing he wondered, "Who is this?" Antipas thought it could be John the Baptist resurrected from the dead as he had ordered his beheading. Mark then flashes back to that event, which foreshadows the eventual fate of Jesus Christ.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6: 1-13
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, July 4, 2021. Have you ever stopped to think how you got here? What has brought you to this message? You ended up here because what is described in today's gospel lesson. You are here because someone shared the word with you. They came on the authority of Jesus. He authorized the first disciples to go out and spread the word and birth the church. Peter (which means rock) was the leader of the disciples and was one of the first leaders of the church. He was the foundation and was authorized by Jesus to spread the word. You are authorized to spread the word. Whatever you think disqualifies you as a disciple or as a leader does not apply. Because if Rocky (Peter) can do it, so can you.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6: 1-13
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, June 27, 2021. In this sermon, Pastor Randy recounts the tale of Jairus and the Bleeding Woman. Jairus came to Jesus, pleading with Him to come lay His hands on his only daughter, who was near death. He humbled himself before Jesus, falling down at His feet. On the way to heal Jairus' daughter, a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years came up behind Jesus and touched the hem of his robe. When she did this, the bleeding stopped, she was healed and the woman fell to the feet of Jesus.
The same is true for us if we are going to encounter Jesus. We encounter Jesus on our knees. We encounter Jesus on our knees when we fall to the feet of Jesus. That's where that meeting begins. Jesus effects the ultimate healing, here and now -- and for eternity.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 5: 21-43
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, June 13, 2021. Today’s Gospel reading features the final two stories pointing to the reign of God in the collection found in this chapter of Mark. One turns on the everyday mystery of growing seed (4:26-29), and the other about the mustard plant shrieks with exaggeration and incongruity (4:30-32). Both parables are used to explain "the kingdom of God" and how God's word can be planted to produce love for the world.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 4: 26-34
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, June 6, 2021. Jesus -- by his life, by his death, and his resurrection -- has won that battle. But Jesus had much opposition. And his own family thought he was crazy. Jesus felt it was necessary to leave his family for a greater cause. As a Christian family, we are here as brother and sisters in Christ. As a family to work together for a greater cause. To identify evil where ever it is and to challenge evil whatever form it takes, whatever the risk might be -- much like Jesus did.
Gospel Lesson: Mark 3: 20-35
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, May 30, 2021. The trinity, according to the apostle Paul, is relational -- Father, Son, Holy Spirt -- and we are a part of that relationship as children of God. For all that are lead by the spirit of God are children of God. And as children of God, we are adopted by his spirit and we inherit the kingdom of God.
Scripture Lesson: Romans 8: 12-17
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon from Sunday, May 23, 2021. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches connected to him. In Jesus' farewell discourse, even though Jesus was leaving, he promised their connection would never be broken. And we are not just connected to God and Jesus, but to each. As a church, we are connected by the spirit.
Gospel Lesson: John 15: 26-27; 16: 4b-15
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, May 9, 2021. Jesus has an intimate relationship with God and with us. Jesus said, "those who abide in me and I in them, bear much fruit." Pastor Randy explains that the fruit that Jesus wants us to bear is love.
Gospel Lesson: John 15: 9-17 Epistle Lesson: 1 John 5:1-6
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, May 16, 2021. What in the world is Jesus talking about when He is talking about the world? On the one hand He is saying that the world is all good. And on the other hand He is saying that it is all bad. So what on earth is Jesus talking about when he is talking about the world?
Gospel Lesson: John 17: 6-19
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, May 2, 2021. Jesus said, "I am the vine and you are the branches. When you are connected to me, you can produce an unlimited amount of fruit." And the number one way to stay connected is through prayer. During the pandemic, our connection to the church was threatened. But as a church we found new opportunities to stay connected and to grow.
Gospel Lesson: John 15:1-8
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, April 25, 2021. A good shepherd takes care of their herd. And the LORD is our good shepherd -- someone we can have trust, have faith in, we can believe in, someone who we know will be there for us all the time. Pastor Randy goes into the 23rd Psalm and tells us to "continue treating each other like dogs."
Gospel Lesson: John 10:11-18 Lesson From the Psalms: Psalm 23
Randy Moore - Pastor
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This featured sermon comes from Sunday, April 18, 2021. Communion is the meal that makes us one. One body of the church. One body in Christ. In the Gospel lesson, Pastor Randy tells us that after the crucifixion, the disciples were gathered in the upper room and the risen Jesus appears to them. In their joy of seeing Jesus, the disciples were in disbelief. Jesus shows them his hands and feet and then shares a meal of fish with them. When we gather together in table fellowship, we are communing with each other -- just as Jesus did with his disciples. And so much love is shared around those tables.
Gospel Lesson: Luke 24: 36b-48
Randy Moore - Pastor
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