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 Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive)
    Pastor Mike continues his series The Church Is/Is Not and preaches on The Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive). After starting out with the cultural definition of inclusivity we turn to the Scriptures to see the true definition, and application, by looking at the issue of Gentile inclusion in the early church, and the controversy it kicked up for both Sts. Peter and Paul.
    5th Sunday After Epiphany: I Corinthians 9:16-23
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    Image by Silas Barr Photography
    34 min
  • The Church is Exclusive (Not Inclusive)
    Pastor Mike preaches on the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the means of human salvation as well as the exclusivity inherent in the reception of the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, and how that compares with popular theologies of inclusion (that aren't based in scripture but in cultural beliefs about inclusion).
    4th Sunday After Epiphany, Year B: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; I Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    Image by Silas Barr Photography
    37 min
  • The Church is for Our Conversion (Not our Actualization)
    Continuing the series, The Church Is/Is Not, Pastor Mike drawing from the conversion of St. Paul preaches on how his conversion to Christ is the model for our own. Our conversion isn't a one time deal but the constant readjustment of our hearts according to the Word of God and the sacramental life of the church which is a marked difference from the wider culture's journey of self actualization.
    Conversion of St. Paul, Year B: Acts 26:9-21; Galatians 1:11-24; Matthew 10:16-22
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    Image by Silas Barr Photography
    31 min
  • The Church is a Hospital (Not a Training Camp for Activism)
    Second Sunday of Epiphany, Year B
    Building on his theme from last week of rival "baptisms" that seek to draw us from Christ, Pastor Michael begins a series on the church is/is not. In today's sermon he focuses on the church being a hospital where the treatment given through the sacraments, and communal life, are brought to bear on our problem of sin and sets this against the idea that the church is the place where political and social activists are formed.
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    Image by Silas Barr Photography
    35 min
  • Baptism & its Rivals
    Pastor Mike preaches on how rival baptisms, primarily those on the political right and left, try to draw us away from living out our baptism into Christ by replacing it with worldviews and ideologies contrary to the way of Christ.
    First Sunday of Epiphany, Year B: Genesis 1:1-5; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    24 min
  • The Word of God & the Structure of Reality
    Drawing from John 1, Pastor Mike preaches on the eternal Word of God as the foundation of reality and the pattern that sets for the church's life and mission.
    Second Sunday of Christmas, Year B: Sirach 24:1-12; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:1-18
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    23 min
  • Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom
    Pastor Mike reads the Nativity sermon originally preached by one of our fathers in the faith: St. John Chrysostom.
    First Sunday of Christmas, Year B
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    11 min
  • Impossible
    Pastor Mike preaches on God's promises to David and the annunciation to the Virgin Mary and how God continually does what looks like, from our perspective to be, the impossible.
    Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B: 2 Samuel 7:1-11,16; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    14 min
  • Rejoice, Pray, Give Thanks
    Pastor Mike preaches on what it means to always rejoice, pray, and give thanks and how that will help us to abstain from evil as we await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    Third Sunday of Advent, Year B: Isaiah 61:1-4,8-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8,19-28
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    19 min
  • Scoffers, Patience, & God's Inactivity
    Pastor Mike preaches on the coming day of the Lord and how scoffers call it into question by what looks to be God's inactivity. But what looks like inactivity is God exercising patience so that more can come to repentance.
    2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B: Isaiah 40:1-11; 2 Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8
    www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund
    Intro & Outro music:
    Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5
    19 min

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