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A New Commandment

5/19/2019

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Acts 11: 1-18; Revelation 21: 1-6; John 13:31-35
May 19, 2019


A little over 20 years ago I began the process toward becoming a Lay Pastor. 20 years! Wow! One of my instructors was a wonderful Pastor and chaplain, Frank Brown. He taught the class on pastoral care. One of his main lessons was that Pastors can't fix everything. I am naturally a fixer and that was hard for me to hear. In fact, I took his class twice hoping that he could pound it into my head. He recognized this trait in me and he worked to help me focus on being a presence of hope and care with people in times of trial and in times of doubt and sorrow and changes.... I still struggle with wanting to fix everything. Even as a husband, it took me along time to realize I couldn't fix everything for Julie and to learn that what she often really wanted was someone to come alongside, listen, support, and love her through it.  ​

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Heavenly Worship

5/12/2019

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Acts 9:36-43; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30
May 12, 2019


I'm jumping in here to start the sermon. See, I'm going to need the full hour for today's sermon. Now I know that's not the norm for me, and I am aware of warnings given to preachers about being lone-winded; “The mind cannot absorb more than the seat can endure.” Or, “If you don’t hit oil after 30 minutes, stop boring.” For now, I'll ask Julie to come up and read the epistle reading from Revelation and then explain more of what I'm doing.


Now for my sermon, it is a sermon about worship. Julie read there an account of heavenly worship, a worship service that was out of this world. “a great number of people... standing before the throne and before the Lamb, holding palm branches in their hands. angels and the elders and the four living creatures all bowed down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanks, honor, power, and strength belong to our God forever and ever. Amen!” It is hard to imagine such a worship, but it is a picture of what worship will look like in heaven, literally and figuratively.
We are gathered here this morning as we do each Sunday morning to worship the Lamb on the throne, to worship God with our words, our prayers, our attitudes and our hymns. What I want to do today is dissect our worship service so that rather than just doing the same things, saying the same words week after week, we examine what we say and why we say it. The sermon will be interrupted as we include all our normal elements of worship, but I will share some of the history and meaning behind our words.  ​

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But When You Grow Old...

5/5/2019

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Acts 9:1-6; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19May 5, 2019
On the Presbyterian planning calendar, I discovered that today is the start of “Older Adults Week”. Did you even know there was a week set apart to “celebrate” older adults? Here are some stats about our aging population: the average human lifespan increased significantly in the 20th century. In 1900, life expectancy was only 47, but over those 100 years, it rose to 75 for men and 78 for women. The percentage of older persons is growing and we certainly see it within our own congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), where the average age of worshipers is 58 — and rising. And look around, we aren't exactly bucking that trend.

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