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Rick Ritchie
Rick Ritchie
02/20/23

Who Will Storm Doubting Castle?

Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
09/04/22

Gospel: Luke 15:1-10 (Pentecost 14: Series C)

The heart of your sermon is the promise that God, in Jesus, has sought and found each of us. He receives us sinners and invites us to eat with Him at His table.
Bradley Gray
Bradley Gray
09/03/21

A Visit with the Transfigured Voice

A seed grows the kingdom of God. A whisper eventually turns the world upside down. A carpenter’s son from nowhere becomes the Savior of everyone. Such is God’s way.
Michael Berg
Michael Berg
04/08/21

Virtue for the Sake of Virtue or Your Neighbor?

This is an excerpt from Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing written by Michael Berg (1517 Publishing, 2021). Available for purchase this Tuesday!
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
03/09/20

Pastors Are Sent Out For You

Pastors represent many things to many people, but their true calling is to serve as God's instrument for proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ for you for the forgiveness of sin.
John T. Pless
John T. Pless
12/23/19

Bright Valley of Love: A Story for Preachers as Advent Turns Toward Christmas

‘What’s so great about Christmas?” That is the question which the preacher must answer!
Philip Bartelt
Philip Bartelt
04/26/19

Living on Resurrection Time

Christ triumphantly brings about a new day, an eighth day, the first day of a new week.
Bob Hiller
Bob Hiller
04/08/19

The Vindicated Lord

The pain of God’s silence strikes Jesus harsher than any nail ever could. “For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me?
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
11/04/18

Gospel: Mark 12:38-44 (Proper 27, Series B)

Both the scribes and the widow were in the temple that day. They were close in proximity, but, in relation to the kingdom of God, they could not have been farther apart. Jesus himself highlights the contrast, which invites us to pay close attention.
Joel Hess
Joel Hess
04/06/17

Fight Club Faith

What is your fight club? Who is your Tyler Durden?
Dominick Santore
Dominick Santore
12/01/16

Death And The Gospel

A while back, my wife and I attended the wake and memorial service of a friend from a prior church we attended.
Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson
11/20/13

Friends

Have you ever experienced the awkwardness of meeting someone you really enjoy and thinking that it was the start of beautiful friendship, only to find out that they didn’t feel the same way?
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