Zions Stone UCC

Zions Stone UCC

By Sermons from Rev. Mike Landsman, pastor of Zion's Stone UCC in Northampton, PAReligion & Spirituality
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Zions Stone UCC episodes

  • The Cure for Quarreling Community
    Pastor Mike preaches on quarreling in church communities, where those disagreements stem from, and how God directs us to deal with them.
    17th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Jeremiah 11:18-20; James 3:13-4:3,7-8; Mark 9:30-37
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    30 min
  • Reorientation
    Pastor Mike preaches on the pattern of confusion, confrontation, and reorientation that occurs when we have wrong ideas in our minds of who Jesus is, and what he's done, when we encounter who Jesus actually is and what he has actually done (and continues to do).
    16th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Isaiah 50:4-9; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    26 min
  • Partiality, Judgment, & Mercy
    Pastor Mike preaches on how in the church we are all one and thus it is sinful when we show partiality to the rich and powerful over the poor. When we see the poor and the suffering in our midst and we, under the pretense of love, don’t feed or clothe them with what we have, then the faith we profess to have is devoid of meaning, and shows our actual lack of faith because our faithfulness is shown to be empty.
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    15th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Isaiah 35:4-7a; James 2:1-17; Mark 7:24-37
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    31 min
  • Hard Words (Or Faith Seeking Understanding)
    Concluding his series on John 6, Pastor Mike preaches on the unbelief of Jesus' own disciples at his hard words and how their reaction exposes our own unbelief. Faith is not blind belief it is trust, in spite of doubts and difficulties, propelling us to seek understanding that what we hold to be true may be wrong, and needs to be challenged by the words of our Lord.
    14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B: Joshua 24:1-2,14-18; Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:60-71
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    24 min
  • Eating or Believing?
    Continuing the series on John 6, Pastor Mike preaches on eating and believing. Jesus intensifies his earlier statements leaving his hearers baffled. Is eating his flesh merely a metaphor for believing or is there something else to it all?
    13th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    18 min
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mother of God
    On the Feast of the falling asleep of the Blessed Virgin, Pastor Mike preaches from the Magnificat from the Gospel of Luke, and how it shows us Mary's humble acceptance of God's divine plan, her recognition in the salvation that was to come through her Son, and the divine reversal brought to humanity through the defeat of the evil spiritual forces that held humanity captive.
    The Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Year B: Isaiah 61:10-11, Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 1:46-55
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    21 min
  • Unbelief
    Pastor Mike continues in John 6 contrasting seeing Jesus and believing versus seeing him and not believing and how the Exodus story is a model that can help us understand how unbelief leads some to reject the drawing of the Father to the Son.
    11th Sunday after Pentecost: I Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:17-5:2; John 6:35-51
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    26 min
  • The Food that Endures
    Pastor Mike continues his sermon series on John 6. Jesus is sought by the crowd not because of his teaching or his signs, but because they want something from him. And in response Jesus identifies himself as the true manna from heaven.
    10th Sunday after Pentecost: Exodus 16:2-15; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:22-35
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    26 min
  • Theophanic Bread
    Pastor Mike begins a new series, The Bread of Life, based on the readings from John 6. In the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves followed by Jesus walking on the sea, we see how both are not only a revealing of Jesus as a prophet greater than Moses, but also as a theophany revealing Jesus to be the God who treads upon the waves.
    9th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: 2 Samuel 11:1-15; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    30 min
  • Peace
    Pastor Mike preaches on how Christ's act of redemption was meant to bring both those who were far off from and those who were near the covenants of promise together as one.
    8th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: II Samuel 7:1-14; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34, 55-56
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    37 min

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The weekly sermons from Rev. Mike Landsman, pastor at Zion's Stone UCC in Northampton, PA.