October 1      (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost)      

Text:             Luke 7:36-48

Title:             Nothing is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Disrespect""

Theme           No one seems to respect anyone anymore. Today the mantra seems to be, "If I think I'm right I can treat you any way I want and say anything no matter how disrespectful. This is nothing new. Jesus faced this with the Pharisees all the  time.  In this text Jesus uses the love of a woman to show the Pharisee that Love is even louder than disrespect. 

October 1         (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost)      

Text:                Luke 7:36-48

Title:                Nothing is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Disrespect""

Theme:           No one seems to respect anyone anymore. Today the mantra seems to be, "If I think I'm right I can treat you any way I want and say anything no matter how disrespectful. This is nothing new. Jesus faced this with the Pharisees all the time.  In this text Jesus uses the love of a woman to show the Pharisee that Love is even louder than disrespect.

September 24     (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost)       

Text:                      Philippians 2:1-11

Title:                     Nothing Is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Pride"

Theme:                Our world today is filled with pride and arrogance. In fact, these traits seemed to be more respected today than humility. Humility is often seen as a sign of weakness while pride and arrogance a sign of strength.  This can't be true because Jesus lived a life of humility so no matter how loud pride might be true humility born out of love is louder.

 

September 24     (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost)       

Text:                      Philippians 2:1-11

Title:                     Nothing Is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Pride"

Theme:                Our world today is filled with pride and arrogance. In fact, these traits seemed to be more respected today than humility. Humility is often seen as a sign of weakness while pride and arrogance a sign of strength.  This can't be true because Jesus lived a life of humility so no matter how loud pride might be true humility born out of love is louder.

September 24     (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost)       

Text:                      Philippians 2:1-11

Title:                     Nothing Is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Pride"

Theme:                Our world today is filled with pride and arrogance. In fact, these traits seemed to be more respected today than humility. Humility is often seen as a sign of weakness while pride and arrogance a sign of strength.  This can't be true because Jesus lived a life of humility so no matter how loud pride might be true humility born out of love is louder.

September 17    (Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost)

Text:                     Matthew 20:1-16

Title:                    Nothing is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Envy"

                             If selfishness is the opposite of love than envy is the twin brother.  Envy leads to jealousy which eventually leads to all kinds of evil that brings hurt to us and those around us.  True sacrificial love is louder than envy and in fact is the antidote to envy.

 

September 10     (Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost)

Text:                      Luke 10:25-37

Title:                      Nothing is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Pain"

Theme:                Today we don't want to get too close to people because they might need our help. This is especially true for people who are not "in our circle". But this is not the way of Jesus, in fact the gospel of Christ compels us to love even our enemies. There are so many people in great pain today, all kinds of different pain, but love is even louder than their pain.

 

September 3     (Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost) 

Text:                     John 17: 20-26 and 1 Corinthians 13:8

Title:                    Nothing is Louder Than Love: "Louder Than Division"

Theme:               This sermon will consist of a panel discussion between the Sr. Pastor, children and youth. (Youth in the 9:00 service, Children in the 11:00 service.) The discussion will center on the prayer of Jesus for unity for all believers.  The question is, "How can we have unity in such a divided world?"    The answer: LOVE!

 

Scripture: Romans 8:35-39

Synopsis –

The statement is true that "no one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13).  If God is pure love, then what does that mean for us?  What does that mean in relation to those who do and perpetuate evil?  Sadam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden... what does "pure love" look like in regards to them?  Understanding this attribute of God will help us to be more like Him... especially when we face the inevitable evil of this world.  The idea that sin, ALL sin, is equal in the eyes of God is a good place to start to understand God's "pure love" for His creation.