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Denn Guptill
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
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Your Own Pillar Of Fire
Contributed on Feb 2, 2025
Sometimes we wish we had a pillar of fire to guide us through the wilderness. This message looks at the Wesleyan Quadrilateral as one suggestion.
It was 1987, I was pastoring in Truro, and co-chairing a young adult’s event just outside of Washington, DC. I had been in DC for the weekend, looking at hotels and meeting space, and I was making my way back to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with my co-chair, Dwight Addington. Dwight pastored Bethany ...read more
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O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Contributed on Dec 1, 2024
We sing O Little Town of Bethlehem, but it seems like a strange choice for Mary and Joseph to travel 120 km when Mary was "Great with Child". This message seeks to answer some of the questions
O Little Town of Bethlehem, So you probably know the story, the Angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her the exciting news, she’s going to be a mom, even though she is still a virgin, they work out the details but then there is the entire process of telling her parents and her fiancé, in ...read more
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A Return To Civility: 10 Don't Covet
Contributed on Aug 31, 2024
We don't hear the word covet a lot this days, but being greedy is pretty close. This message looks at why we shouldn't be greedy.
A Sunday school teacher was asking her class if anyone knew what the Tenth Commandment was, to which a little boy responded, “You must not take the covers off your neighbour’s wife.” Pretty close. Well, here we are—the last week of our series, A Return to Civility. When we started the series in ...read more
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A Return To Civility: 9 Do Not Lie
Contributed on Aug 24, 2024
lies, distortion, exaggeration. They are all they same. This message looks at why we lie and the damage those lies can cause to others and to us.
I think that if we were honest today, we’d all agree that there is a feeling of violation that happens when we feel that we have been deceived. Most relationships can take almost anything except deceit. It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said, “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset ...read more
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A Return To Civility: 5 Honour Your Parents
Contributed on Aug 3, 2024
When we are little our parents are like God to us, it's no wonder this is the pivotal command between our relationship with God and our relationship with others.
Civility 5 A little change in direction here. We started this series on the Ten Commandments, back in June and after the first four commandments, there’s about to be an abrupt turn. Last week, knowing that this week was going to be one of our three family Sundays this summer, I spoke on ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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The Songs Of Christmas
Contributed on Dec 1, 2024
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A Return To Civility
Contributed on Jun 23, 2024
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Therefore
Contributed on Oct 7, 2023
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This Changes Everything
Contributed on Nov 27, 2022
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Spiritual Disciplines
Contributed on Oct 30, 2022
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Eschatology Is Like Golf
Contributed on Jun 23, 2018
Eschatology or the study of the end times is like golf, it’s fun it gives you something to do but in the long run it you end ...read more
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I Tithe—he'll Find Me.
Contributed on May 1, 2011
"I TITHE--HE'LL FIND ME." Two men have ended up marooned on an island in the South Pacific. You can fill in the blanks as to how they got there. So they are on the clichéic deserted island, one palm tree, nothing to see but the ocean. One guy is in a complete panic, pacing back and forth, ...read more
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R.g. Letourneau Said "I Shovel Money Out, And ...
Contributed on Nov 29, 2004
R.G. LeTourneau said “I shovel money out, and God shovels it back ... ...read more
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Two Little Boys Were Walking Home From Sunday ...
Contributed on Sep 15, 2003
Two little boys were walking home from Sunday School where the lesson had been on the Devil and one asked the other “What do you think of this devil business?” “Well” replied the other boy, “You know ...read more
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Old Country Preacher Was Met One Day By A Member ...
Contributed on Apr 28, 2003
Old country preacher was met one day by a member of his congregation who asked, “Preacher if salvation is free, how come you’re always asking for money?” Good question, maybe one you’ve asked yourself. The preacher responded by saying “Salvation is free, as free as the water ...read more