United Methodist Church of Kent Sermon Podcast

We mark Rev. Douglas Denton’s last Sunday in the pulpit before his retirement.

We each build in our own way on the foundation of Christ; we each have a role to play in God’s church, and through it all it is God who “gives the growth”.

The importance of remembering what God has done, to give us the proper orientation for our future. A prime example of this is the remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice that we do in Communion.

In true humility, recognizing our need for God, we are lifted up in God’s grace.

Like Abraham or the disciples, everyone believer’s life is “unfinished,” in that we never arrive at a completion of all that we aim to be about. We find our fulfillment, however, in the place that we have in God’s everlasting purposes.

God works through ordinary people in extraordinary ways.  The examples in today’s Scriptures are Shiphrah, Puah, Jochebed, Miriam, and Pharaoh’s daughter.

We are urged throughout the Bible not to think we have “arrived” in faith but to keep pressing on to “know the Lord.”

We need to recognize that we are sojourners on this earth, so that we ground our lives in the eternal, rather than being trapped in the trivialities or problems of the present.

Today our teens present elements of the worship service.