The second week of Advent Sermon: Focusing on Peace

Summary: This message explores the advent theme of peace; peace rooted in the person of Jesus Christ.  Have you seen those Facebook relationship settings. You can say you’re: In a relationship, you’resingle, you’re divorced, or it’s complicated. It’s interesting how social media has become a relationship tool. You may have seen things like this: (screenshots fromContinue reading “The second week of Advent Sermon: Focusing on Peace”

A message of Hope this Christmas

If I asked you to define Christmas with one word (apart from the words Jesus and Christ), what word would you choose? Would you use peace, love, joy or some other word? There are a number of words we could use in describing Christmas; however, I want to focus on the word hope. Christmas isContinue reading “A message of Hope this Christmas”

The First week of advent

The weeks of Advent are in the following order, with each week focusing on a different theme: A. Its a time of year when some Christian denominations talk about “Advent.” The word simply means “the coming of someone or something important.” Traditionally “advent” is the four Sundays prior to Christmas Day, in which people celebrateContinue reading “The First week of advent”

What kind of Marks do you leave?

Summary: What are the marks of a true Christian? Perhaps it would be helpful to look at what is not a mark of a Christian first, then what the mark of a Christian is? All week I have been teaching my students at school how to sign their name. In other words, how to make theirContinue reading “What kind of Marks do you leave?”

Choices…

This morning we’ like to turn your attention to Joshua 24:14-28 Just before we get there let’s consider chapter 23: 1, because this scripture informs us that Joshua is now old and stricken in age. This is Joshua’s Farewell to the Leaders and the following verses states: “23 After a long time had passed and the Lord hadContinue reading “Choices…”