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  • Ken Sauer

    Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
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First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge, TN
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865-483-4357

About Ken
  • Education: M.Div. Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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  • Cultivating A Generous Heart

    Contributed on Nov 11, 2025
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    A sermon in a stewardship series.

    2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Cultivating a Generous Heart “God loves a cheerful giver,” writes Paul to the Church in Corinth. What a concept… …that giving will make us happy, put us in a good mood, and is connected to cheerfulness. But it’s the truth. Anyone who’s ever dug down deep enough to give ...read more

  • From God For God

    Contributed on Nov 5, 2025
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    A stewardship sermon

    “From God and For God” Matthew 6:24-34 A robin said to a sparrow, “I really don’t know why it is these human beings rush about and worry so much.” The sparrow to the robin, “I think it must be that they don’t have a loving God, like we do who cares for you and me.” I think sometimes we live as ...read more

  • The Great Cloud Of Witnesses

    Contributed on Oct 28, 2025
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    A sermon for All Saints Sunday.

    A Great Cloud of Witnesses Hebrews 12:1-3 When Bob Homer was a young boy he had a paper route. And back in the days of paper routes, the paper girls or boys would have to collect money from each customer by ringing their doorbell once a week. And so, you got to know the people you delivered ...read more

  • Something We Are All Guilty Of

    Contributed on Oct 21, 2025
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    A sermon about humbling ourselves.

    Something We Are All Guilty Of Luke 18:9-14 “God, I thank you that I am not like other people. Really, thank you, God.” Wow, does this passage ever convict! And if we are not all found guilty in hearing this parable, we are deluding ourselves. We all pray this way too often. It starts ...read more

  • We Had Hoped

    Contributed on Sep 30, 2025
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    Jesus walks with us on our roads to Emmaus.

    Luke 24:13-35 “But We Had Hoped” Much of this sermon was borrowed from Rev. Alexis Fuller-Wright Our Gospel Lesson for this morning begins with “Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus.” “On that same day” meaning Easter Day the same day that Jesus’ rose from ...read more

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  • Hell At Ground Zero

    Contributed on Sep 2, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
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    HELL AT GROUND ZERO Jerry Sillcocks is a New York firefighter and a Christian who helped search for survivors at “ground zero.” He writes that he and his co-workers called this place the “pit.” “Almost everywhere I looked, mighty columns of steel were twisted into sad, pointless ...read more

  • A Light Named Al

    Contributed on Sep 2, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
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    A LIGHT NAMED AL On the morning of September 11, Jeannie Braca switched on the television to check the weather report, only to hear that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Jeannie’s husband, Al, worked as a corporate bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald. His office was on the 105th ...read more