Celebration Sermons
By Ed Myers
Celebration SermonsMar 15, 2020
The Way - Part 3 - Jesus' Way, World's Way, Living Jesus' Way in the World
Mark 12: 1-17 Jesus tells a parable about God's relentless love and answers a test question
Wednesday Way 2 - The Way of Foolishness
Tornadoes, Covid-19, and God's foolishness along The Way
1 Corinthians 1: 18-25 - Foolishness
John 2: 13-25 - Jesus in the Temple/is the Temple
The Way - Part 2 - The Way of Serving
Mark 10: 32-52 - Jesus foretells of his suffering, death, and resurrection for the third time, James and John want prestige and power, Blind Bartimaeus wants to see with his eyes.
Wednesday Way 1 - Not What You Have, But How You Live
Following the Tornado that devastated so much around us, we gathered for worship on Wednesday night in Lent.
Mark 8: 31-38
The Way - Part 1 - This is The Way
Mark 10: 17-31
Ash Wednesday - The Way Intro - Pray, Fast, Give
Mark 9: 30-37
Jesus Revealed - Part 8 - Jesus Revealed
Mark 8: 27 - 9: 8
In The Passion prediction and Transfiguration, we see Jesus' action plan. By seeing Jesus' plan, we see the very heart of God and are invited to take on that same way of living.
Jesus Revealed - Part 7 - Inside Out
Mark 7: 1-23 - Jesus and his disciples get called out for not washing their hands before they eat.
Jesus Revealed - Part 6 - The Same in the Chaos
Mark 6: 1-29: Jesus rejected, Jesus sends out the twelve, Herod killed John the Baptist
Jesus Revealed - Part 5 - From Top to Bottom to Top
Mark 5: 21-43 Jesus heals two daughters, one richer and one poorer, one privileged and one common, one grown adult and one pre-teen.
Jesus Revealed - Part 4 - Beyond the Borders and Walls, Freedom
Mark 5: 1-22
Jesus moves beyond the borders and walls we create to set people free, and it's not a new thing for God.
Jesus Revealed - Part 3 - Love for All of You
Mark 4: 1-22 - Jesus teaches in parables to reveal the character of God, the nature of God, the very heart of God. That revealing then challenges how we live in the world.
Jesus Revealed - Part 2 - Forgiving, Loving the Undesirables, and When to Celebrate
Mark 2: 1-22 - Jesus forgives/heals a paralytic, calls a tax collector to become a follower and eats with him and his tax collecting friends, and doesn't fast on a regular basis.
Jesus Revealed - Part 1 - Love Lives Compassion
Mark 2: 1-22 - Jesus reveals his authority and compassion and is indignant at our lack of compassion
The Thrill of Hope - Christmas Eve
Luke 2: 1-20
The Thrill of Hope - Part 4 - Voice of Hope
Luke 1: 5-17
Luke 1: 67-80
The Thrill of Hope - Mary and Hope and Challenge - Extra Episode
Luke 1: 26-56
We had our Choir Cantata on Sunday morning, so this is an Extra in the Thrill of Hope series, the sermon from Saturday night, Decebmer 14, 2019.
The Thrill of Hope - Part 3 - Preparing for Hope
Isaiah 40: 1-11
Mark 1: 1-4
The Thrill of Hope - Part 2 - The Promise of Hope
Jeremiah 33: 14-18 - A righteous branch...
Mark 8:27-29 - You are the Christ.
The Thrill of Hope - Part 1 - The King of Hope
Christ the King
Luke 1: 28-33, 38
Luke 23: 38-43
REformed and REforming - Part 6 - Reforming the Relationship
Jeremiah 31: 27-34 "A New Covenant" (The terms of the relationship)
Luke 22: 14-20 "A New Covenant" (The terms for reforming the relationship)
and THE Ohio State University
REformed and REforming - Part 5 - REforming for Living (Worthy)
Luke 3: 7-18 - John the Baptist calls/warns us to live differently
Ephesians 4: 1-3 - Paul encourages us to live worthy after experiencing God's grace
REformed and REforming - Part 4 - REforming to Serve
Isaiah 1: 10-18 - The prophet calls out God's people on their hypocrisy
Mark 10:35-45 - The greatest will be servants
REformed & REforming - Part 3 - REformed Together with God at the Center - Rev. Michael Jannett, Assistant to the Bishop
Guest Preacher - Rev. Michael Jannett, Assistant to the Bishop for Formation and Communication of the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (try to fit that on a business card)
2 Kings 22: 1-10, 23: 1-3 Josiah and God's people are reformed together with God at the center after rediscovering God's word.
Luke 24: 30-32 - The disciples on the road to Emmaus are reformed together by walking with resurrected Jesus who is revealed in the breaking of bread, and the hearts are on fire.
REformed and REforming Part 2 - REformed with God
2 Samuel 5: 1-5, 6: 1-5, 15 - David becomes King of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms and moved the Ark to Jerusalem.
Mark 11: 8-11a - Jesus enter Jerusalem
REformed and REforming - REformed Together - Part 1 of 6
Ruth 1: 1-17
I Know You by Name - Part 5 - I Am in Covenant Relationship
Deuteronomy 5: 1-21, 6: 4-9
Mark 12: 28-31
I Know You By Name Part 4 - I Am
Exodus 1: 8-14, 2: 23 - 3: 15
I Know You By Name Part 3 - Cheater
Genesis 32
I Know You By Name Part 2 - Laughter
Genesis 18: 1-15, and Genesis 21: 1-7
I Know You By Name Part 1 Dirt Man
Part one of a four part series on names in the bible, what they mean, and why they matter. This first sermon is on Adam, aka, Dirt Man