This is the third sermon in my 2020 November sermon series, "Wait...That's in the Bible?" This series is where I explore some of the stories and histories recorded in Scripture that we may be less familiar with, or maybe have never even heard before! Scripture is full of some amazing, inspiring, and powerful messages ever recorded. But it also contains some stories that are sometimes hard to wrestle with and reconcile. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Acts 20:7-12; Proverbs 6:6-11; Psalm 95:1-7a.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/11/22/wait-thats-in-the-bible-falling-asleep-in-church-can-kill-you/

This is the second sermon in my 2020 November sermon series, "Wait...That's in the Bible?" This series is where I explore some of the stories and histories recorded in Scripture that we may be less familiar with, or maybe have never even heard before! Scripture is full of some amazing, inspiring, and powerful messages ever recorded. But it also contains some stories that are sometimes hard to wrestle with and reconcile. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Numbers 22:21-39; Genesis 3:1-15; Psalm 123.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/11/15/wait-thats-in-the-bible-talking-animals/

This is the first sermon in my 2020 November sermon series, "Wait...That's in the Bible?" This series is where I explore some of the stories and histories recorded in Scripture that we may be less familiar with, or maybe have never even heard before! Scripture is full of some amazing, inspiring, and powerful messages ever recorded. But it also contains some stories that are sometimes hard to wrestle with and reconcile. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: 2 Kings 2:13-25; 2 Chronicles 36:15-21; Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/11/08/wait-thats-in-the-bible-dont-make-fun-of-prophets/

This sermon is from 2020 All Saints Sunday, a day when we remember and honor those saints who have gone on before us into perfection and paradise, but whom we still miss and may still be mourning for. This sermon uses the lectionary text selections for All Saints Day from the Revised Common Lectionary. Those selections can be found here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=166

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/11/01/blessed-or-happy-which-is-it/

This is the fourth sermon in my 2020 October sermon series, "Things That Go Bump in the Bible," in honor of how October is often associated with Halloween, trick-or-treating, and scary movies. During this month we will be focusing on some of the monsters and scary things that we find in the Bible, as well as how understand fear and deal with the things that make us afraid. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Revelation 12:3-4a, 7-9; Ephesians 6:10-17; Proverbs 10:27-32.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/10/25/things-that-go-bump-in-the-bible-defeating-evil/

This is the third sermon in my 2020 October sermon series, "Things That Go Bump in the Bible," in honor of how October is often associated with Halloween, trick-or-treating, and scary movies. During this month we will be focusing on some of the monsters and scary things that we find in the Bible, as well as how understand fear and deal with the things that make us afraid. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Jonah 1:1-17; Romans 8:37-39; Proverbs 3:21-26.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/10/18/things-that-go-bump-in-the-bible-what-are-we-really-afraid-of/

This is the second sermon in my 2020 October sermon series, "Things That Go Bump in the Bible," in honor of how October is often associated with Halloween, trick-or-treating, and scary movies. During this month we will be focusing on some of the monsters and scary things that we find in the Bible, as well as how understand fear and deal with the things that make us afraid. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Job 41:1-14; Psalm 74:13–23; Proverbs 12:25-28.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/10/11/things-that-go-bump-in-the-bible-monsters-of-the-deep/

This is the first sermon in my 2020 October sermon series, "Things That Go Bump in the Bible," in honor of how October is often associated with Halloween, trick-or-treating, and scary movies. During this month we will be focusing on some of the monsters and scary things that we find in the Bible, as well as how understand fear and deal with the things that make us afraid. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Daniel 7:1-8; Psalm 149; Proverbs 29:25-27.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/10/04/things-that-go-bump-in-the-bible-nightmare-on-babylon-street/

This is the fifth sermon in my 2020 August sermon series, "Back to Basics, Being the Church". This series was not created because I somehow think my congregations do not know how to be the church or have forgotten or anything like that. Rather, I wanted us to look at the basics of our faith and our beliefs, and how they help shape who and what we are as the church, specifically in this time of a global pandemic. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Deuteronomy 6:1-7; 2 Timothy 3:10-17; Psalm 78:1-4.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/08/30/back-to-basics-being-the-church-christian-education/

This is the fourth sermon in my 2020 August sermon series, "Back to Basics, Being the Church". This series was not created because I somehow think my congregations do not know how to be the church or have forgotten or anything like that. Rather, I wanted us to look at the basics of our faith and our beliefs, and how they help shape who and what we are as the church, specifically in this time of a global pandemic. This series does not use the Revised Common Lectionary selections for any specific week or year. The Scripture choices for this message are: Ephesians 2:11-22; Romans 6:3-11; 1 Peter 5:1-5.

For a full transcript of this sermon please visit my blog at https://percolatingpastor.org/2020/08/23/back-to-basics-being-the-church-baptism-membership/