Sermons from 2025 (Page 4)

The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany February 23, 2025 Luke 6:27-38 Epiphany Moments— Love Your Enemies; Overcoming Evil with Good!   27“But tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes…

The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany February 16, 2025 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Epiphany Moments— Blessings are Cursed; Curses are Blessed!   To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I…

The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany February 9, 2025 Luke 5:1-11 Epiphany Moments— The Least Qualified are the First Sent!   1One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, 2he saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little…

The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany February 2, 2025 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Epiphany Moments— Popularity is Not Proof of Success!   14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in…

The Third Sunday after Epiphany January 26, 2025 Luke 4:16-30 Epiphany Moments— Rejection is Not Proof of Failure!   16He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. 17The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:   18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has…

Epiphany Sunday January 5, 2025 Matthew 2:1-12 The Gift of God— The Gift of God is for All People!   1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” 3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When…