Milford Presbyterian Church Sermons

Sunday, July 15, 2018. Ezekiel (Part 1). Ezekiel 2:1-5; 3:16-21. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The prophet Ezekiel is an extraordinary and complicated biblical figure, which draws the church's attention to the challenge of listening to a prophetic word from God--just as hard today as it was so long ago. When God speaks to the church, it rarely comes from accepted and acceptable sources. Are we prepared to listen?

Sunday, July 1, 2018. Mark 4:26-34. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Jesus often uses seeds to help us understand the nature of God's kingdom. Seeds appear powerless and inconsequential, which makes them the perfect analogy for a kingdom that turns our expectations upside-down and our assumptions inside-out.

Sunday, June 10, 2018. The Trinity (Part 3). John 3:16-17 and 1 John 4:7-16. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. To affirm the Trinity is to affirm that God's very nature is self-giving love. And if we desire to know and to experience this God, then in our own lives we must abide in love.

Sunday, June 3, 2018. The Trinity (Part 2). Genesis 18:1-8 and Galatians 3:23-29. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. When we dwell on the threeness of God, we recognize that God's very nature is relational. Relationship exists within divinity itself, and we are invited into that divine communion to be in relationship with God, and we are also called to foster the strong ties of loving community with one another.

Sunday, May 27, 2018. The Trinity (Part 1). Psalm 8:1, 3-6, 9 and John 1:1-4, 9-14. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The Trinity is a perplexing doctrine, and it lies at the very heart of Christian faith. And though a careful examination of the Trinity can feel like a purely academic exercise, in actuality the doctrine grows out of the lived experience of the church and reflects certain core convictions about the nature of God.

Sunday, May 13, 2018. All In | The Way of Discipleship (Part 6). Genesis 12:1-3 and Matthew 28:16-20. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The call of God to Abram set in motion the work of God through God's people, and that call finds its fulfillment in Jesus' Great Commission.

Sunday, May 6, 2018. All In | The Way of Discipleship (Part 5). Isaiah 42:1-4 and Luke 22:24-27. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. To be a disciple is to follow Jesus into a life of service. And the kind of service Jesus calls us to is more than mere humility or meekness; it asks us to pour ourselves out for others.

Sunday, April 29, 2018. All In | The Way of Discipleship (Part 4). Ezekiel 36:25-28 and Matthew 14:22-33. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. We can’t choose to follow Jesus and expect to remain the same. To follow him is to embrace new life—to become a new person.

Sunday, April 22, 2018. All In | The Way of Discipleship (Part 3). Matthew 16:21-25 and Luke 14:26-27. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The uncomfortable and often unwelcome reality of following Jesus is that we are called to sacrifice: called away from a life of self-enrichment and into a life of self-denial.

Sunday, April 15, 2018. All In | The Way of Discipleship (Part 2). Matthew 11:25-30. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The word “disciple” comes from the Greek word for student. To be a disciple of Jesus is to take the posture of a student before the teacher: to learn from his words and his life.