2nd Sunday of Easter + 1 May 2011

John 20: 19-31 Way In Good News Since Easter, I have been thinking about “Good News” Show the “Good News for Modern Man” Bible (from parlor) Scriptures – Good News, gospel, euvagge,lion Mark 1:1 “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the son of God.” Luke 2:10; the angel to the shepherds about [...]

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Easter + 24 April 2011

John 20:1-18 “Run and Tell” Way In Greeting Sentences of scripture He is not here, for he has been raised (Matthew) When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back (Mark) Why do you look for the living among the dead? (Luke) Traditional greeting: The Lord is risen. He is risen, [...]

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Maundy Thursday + 21 April 2011

Welcome Tonight we remember the final supper Jesus shared with his disciples simple and contemplative scripture reading (OT, Epistle, Gospel) and prayer name for this service comes from John’s gospel “I give you a new commandment, love one another as I have loved you” John 13:34 Latin: mandatum novum communion tonight will be by intinction [...]

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3rd Sunday of Lent

John 4:5-26 “Lord Give us This Water” Way In My kids at Day Camp One summer I was a Summer Day Camp Counselor Teens challenges Days were structured for younger kids my group were supposed to be Counselors in Training (CIT) “between you and me,” they were there pretty much for daycare parents couldn’t leave [...]

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4th Sunday of Easter

John 21:1-11 Fish From the Other Side of the Boat   1.  Way In Did the gospel reading sound familiar today? Ought to, same one I read last week Usually I move ahead, or at least move on from week-to- week Well, it’s different this week Stay with Jesus and the disciples one more day [...]

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3rd Sunday of Easter

John 21:1-19    Way In Business as usual/”Back to Your Homes and Places of Business”   Mayberry, Deputy Barney Fife after the big crime scene’s over “Back to your homes and places of business” Connect Jesus spent three years training his disciples showing them by example healing, teaching, building up the kingdom of God showing [...]

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2nd Sunday of Easter

John 20:19-31   1.  Way In There’s a lot to celebrate today The glorious good news of Easter The Lord is risen. He is risen, indeed. Easter and the season of Easter; traditional time for celebrating baptisms early church, Easter was when confirmands joined the church usually baptized we shared the gift of baptizing Caleb [...]

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Maundy Thursday

  Welcome and Call to Worship The Lord be with you. And also with you. We gather to remember the night that Jesus shared his last supper with his disciples.  What shall we give to the Lord for his goodness to us? We will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name [...]

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Lent 5

John 12:1-8   1.  Way In Do you ever think that you have somebody all figured out? Got a ticket when I lived in NY for talking on cell phone while driving went to Town Hall to pay ticket stood waiting at the counter while a clerk made out my bill overheard a phone call [...]

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Sunday’s Second Sermon, at Dorothy Love Retirement Community

John 4:5-26 “Lord Give us This Water”   1.  Way In Talk about my summer as a Day Camp Counselor in charge of teenagers a few of them were real “challenges” Days were structured for younger kids my group were supposed to be Counselors in Training (CITs) “between you and me,” they were there pretty [...]

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