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The Cost of Discipleship Luke 14
This Week’s Sermon: Luke 14:25-33 – The Cost of Discipleship When you sign up, you can build a package to suit your worship needs from our library of sermons, illustrations, children’s sermons, bulletin aids, and dramas. We also offer PowerPoint and children’s bulletins to enrich your worship and outreach. Click here to Join on a […]
The Cost of Discipleship
Luke 14:25-33 – “The Cost of Discipleship†The full text of the following sermon is available at http://www.eSermons.com Sign up today at: http://www.esermons.com/signup. The mark of a great leader is the demands he makes upon his followers. The Italian freedom fighter Garibaldi offered his men only hunger and death to free Italy. Winston Churchill told […]
The Purpose of Sociability
Sept. 2, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 14: 1, 7-14 I began my career as an Episcopal minister in a large and venerable downtown Detroit congregation in which there then remained a number of Old Money families whose members had long since decamped for the Grosse Pointes. They still, however, came to services in […]
John Stott’s Final Sermon
John Stott Address at Keswick Dr. John Stott – ‘The model – becoming more like Christ.’ Sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention July 17th 2007. I remember very vividly, some years ago, that the question which perplexed me as a younger Christian (and some of my friends as well) was this: what is God’s purpose […]
Embracing the Time and Season
August 19, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 12: 49-56 “Appropriate†is a word that we hear a lot these days – sometimes used to describe an overture or incursion into personal space that is not appropriate, or, in a more positive way, to say that just now is the appropriate moment, occasion, day or […]
Is It Worth All This Effort?
August 12, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 12: 32-40 The title of this sermon (“Is It Worth All This Effort?â€) must in some way be a general reaction to the breathless mandate set forth in today’s gospel text from Luke. Sell possessions. Give alms. Be dressed for action. Have your lamps lit. Be ready. […]
The Parable of the Talents
Howard wrong on parable of the Talents Posted August 10, 2007 Last night Lateline reported John Howard’s Hillsong address to churches around Australia. ¬¬¬ JOHN HOWARD: Parable of the Talents, to me has always been, has always seemed to me to be the “free enterprise parableâ€. The parable that tells us that we have a […]
David
20 JUNE 2007 Archbishop Ndungane’s Sermon at Westminster Abbey 2 Sam 11:26-12:10,13-15 Ps 32:1-6,11-12 Gal 2:15-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 Brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet you in the precious name of our Lord. It is a great joy to be with you this morning. Had King David lived today, there is no doubt that the […]
The Rich Fool
August 5, 2007 – Tenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 13) – Year C [RCL] by the Rev. Dr. J. Barry Vaughn Hosea 11:1-11 or Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23; Psalm 107:1-9, 43 or 49:1-12; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21 Jesus had just said, “When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not […]
Mary and Martha
“Mary and Martha” Presbyterian Church (USA) Speaker The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long July 22, 2007 Proper 11 Luke 10: 38-42 The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long is the Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and the author or editor of 14 books on preaching and worship. He […]
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