by hopeumcadmin | Sep 29, 2024 | Sermon
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50; Esther 7:1-10, 20-22 For Such a Time as This Today we conclude this series on Wisdom, Holy Wisdom. As I was preparing for this week, a song that I have long enjoyed came to...
by hopeumcadmin | Sep 23, 2024 | Sermon
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: James 3:13-4:8; Mark 9:30-37; Proverbs 31:10-31 Lady Wisdom The passage today as we come to the end of Proverbs focuses from the viewpoint of a woman. Some have said it belittles women by listing all the...
by hopeumcadmin | Sep 15, 2024 | Sermon
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: James 3:1-12; Isaiah 50:4-9 Mark 8:27-38; Proverbs 1: 20-23 The Power of Words part 3 This morning, I will conclude this three-part series on the Power of Words. Today is about teachers and the power...
by hopeumcadmin | Sep 8, 2024 | Sermon
September 8, 2024 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; James 2:1-10; Mark 7:24-37 The Power of Words part 2 I must say once again I struggled with the passages today; not so much that I don’t understand them, I struggled with where...
by hopeumcadmin | Sep 1, 2024 | Sermon
September 1, 2024 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Songs of Solomon 2:8-13; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 The Power of Words What are the most powerful things you have seen in your life? I have seen a static display of the Saturn Five Rocket at...
