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  • Healthy Congregations Are Diverse Congregations Series

    Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Jan 30, 2018
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     | 5,063 views

    a church must have diversity to be a healthy church

    The Episcopal Church prides itself in the acceptance of all people – those of diverse cultures, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual identity, and abilities. This allows congregations that share the wonderful uniqueness of each person, celebrate their varied differences, and promote stronger ...read more

  • Nourishment For The Soul Series

    Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Jul 15, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,138 views

    In a world dominated by materialism, it is crucial to prioritise our spiritual well-being to attain true happiness and fulfilment.

    Nourishment for the Soul Intro: In a world dominated by materialism, it is crucial to prioritise our spiritual well-being to attain true happiness and fulfilment. Scripture John 6:24-35 Reflection Dear Sisters and Brothers, In our contemporary world, the quest for happiness and fulfilment ...read more

  • No, It's Not Fair, But Bear With It In Christ

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 28, 2023
     | 849 views

    Forget the old song that asks “how can it be wrong when it feels so right?” That’s unmitigated baloney. Your mind must rule your emotions, not vice-versa.

    Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Course 2023 Have you or anyone you know ever said that some fine or traffic ticket or concert ticket price or something else “isn’t fair”? I suspect that a show of hands would involve almost everyone who is here today. That cry, “it’s not fair!” is one of the most common ...read more

  • The Functional Family Series

    Contributed by Dennis Cummins on Oct 18, 2006
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     | 6,046 views

    This sermon includes a video illistration which we can email you upon request for free. This can be viewed on Itunes podcast or Video cast under ExperienceChurch.tv or viewed online at www.experiencechurch.tv.

    The Functioning Family The Mommy dog that lost her rear leggs in a lawn mower accident, and her children pups learned to walk like mommy walked, by dragging their hind end around the house… Monkey see monkey do, our children will follow what we model. Genesis 1:28 (Contemporary English ...read more

  • Gifts And Laws And Pharisees

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 2, 2022
     | 750 views

    Many gifts but only One Source.

    Saturday of 22nd Week in Course When somebody asks me how I am, I almost always answer, “grateful.” One of the big reasons I do that is what St. Paul teaches in our epistle today: “What do you have that you did not receive?” I know that any talent or other asset I have is a divine gift. And any ...read more

  • A More Just And Believing Society Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 14, 2015
     | 2,919 views

    Putting aside our self-will is the key to evangelizing our society.

    Thursday after Ash Wednesday 2015 Joy of the Gospel What does it profit a human being to gain everything and lose himself in the process? These words are stark and challenging, like an ice-water drenching for our minds and hearts here at the beginning of Lent. I think of pop icons, both secular ...read more

  • Salvation's Bottom Line

    Contributed by Martin Wiles on Aug 30, 2010
     | 3,351 views

    This sermon deals with the importance of recognizing and accepting the fact that salvation is by grace through faith and nothing else.

    SALVATION'S BOTTOM LINE GALATIANS 2:11-21 INTRODUCTION Humanity suffers a universal plague. It is guilt. Every person experiences this emotion and tries to find some way to alleviate it. Primitive people tried to assuage it by appealing to many gods through the sacrifice of animals and sometimes ...read more

  • Diversity In The Church

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 11, 2012
     | 5,729 views

    Leadership in the congregation is to reflect the Lord’s choice rather than seeking diversity as defined in the world.

    “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, ...read more

  • The Way Of Beauty Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 19, 2015
     | 4,549 views

    There can be no tension between devoting ourselves to love of God and love of neighbor.

    Thursday of 25th week in course 2015 Joy of the Gospel There is a very old argument in the Church that contrasts what we owe to God with what we owe to our neighbor. These days, it goes like this: we don’t need ornate churches with lots of stone and pipeorgans and marble altars and Italian ...read more

  • There Once Was A Country...

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jan 5, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,968 views

    What we are as a nation is not what we were, and the difference is not something to be celebrated.

    “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: ‘Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.’ “Ah, sinful nation, a people laden ...read more

  • Incarnation: The Divine Becoming Human Series

    Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Dec 15, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,673 views

    The idea of the Incarnation is significantly important in Christian theology. It stands for the essential conviction that Jesus Christ, who is the divine being, assumed human form.

    Incarnation: The Divine Becoming Human The idea of the Incarnation is significantly important in Christian theology. It stands for the essential conviction that Jesus Christ, who is the divine being, assumed human form. The word ‘Incarnation’ comes from the Latin word ‘incarnatio,’ which means ...read more

  • The Struggle Never Ends Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 16, 2019
     | 3,284 views

    We humans think that we can be happiest when there is no struggle, when we can just coast. . .But that is not the state of society when there are still many who have not accepted and begun to live the call of Christ.

    Thursday of the 6th Week in Course 2019 St. Peter Damian Life after original sin came into the human family is a continual struggle. The story of a great flood is found in more than one culture. Here in our first reading we see God establishing a covenant after the flood between Himself, Noah and ...read more

  • The Essence Of Being A Christian

    Contributed by John White on Nov 22, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,711 views

    The essence of being a Christian is to walk as Jesus walked.

    THE ESSENCE OF BEING A CHRISTIAN I John 2:3-7 "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: ...read more

  • The Root Of Immorality

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 29, 2020
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     | 4,681 views

    Have the professed people of God permitted themselves to be compromised by the world to such an extend that they are powerless against wickedness? Though the thought is frightful, Christians need to assess our relationship with the Living God.

    The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame. They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity. And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. They shall eat, ...read more

  • Accepting The Different Part 3 Series

    Contributed by Eyriche Cortez on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,569 views

    To accept one another, we are to concede differences.

    Have you ever tried ordering water in the restaurant nowadays? First, the waiter asks, “Hot or cold water?” Let us say you chose cold water. He then asks, “Tap water or bottled water?” Okay, bottled water. “Mineral, alkaline, ionized, carbonated, flavored, purified or distilled?” So much to choose ...read more