Prepare Ye

 Here is my sermon text, video and audio for my sermons on January 10, 2021. I had started a sermon series the week before from Exodus, but because if the insurrectionist invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, I couldn't preach that message. Instead I used the Epiphany day Gospel lesson (Matthew 2.1-12, 16) to preach on the lengths some will go to hang onto power. It wasn't always well received. I had one member threaten to leave the church because "you shouldn't preach on politics." I said Jesus did all the time. We MUST speak on current events, especially the evil that manifested itself, especially on January 6.  My sermon from our Church at Home service for January 10, 2021. <audio controls="controls" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1POOn39vKHA5frLtEzfJYG8SZshhjuoTC/view?usp=sharing"> </audio> <audio controls="controls" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o7kugH1fDau2GQkrpBKEjzC2ZNpcajnq/view?usp=sharin...

 One of the things that helps me prepare a sermon and a sermon series is to create graphics that go along with the series. By coming up with a unifying image or theme before we begin, it helps me to see the connections so I can plant seeds and drop hints that some people pick up on. We just finished a series in Advent where I was not really too creative. .  We finished Lectionary Year A with a series that ran from mid-September through the end of November on the Parables from Matthew's Gospel. This was the base image, with each week being a banner or ribbon. The blue at the edge marked the beginning of Advent that we were moving toward. Each week, only the appropriate banner remained, and the rest gave way for a quote from the lesson and a graphic. The change in liturgical colors to mark Reformation Sunday and All Saints Sunday helped to remind me to change the colors, because most of the time I (as have many pastors during the pandemic) was serving as my own Altar Guild, and ...

  Pastor Brian Campbell's Sermon from January 3. His sermon was based on Exodus 2 & 3 on how God calls us to be a part of God's work, and God wants to hear our concerns and questions. This is the first of a Sermon Series from Exodus. Pastor Brian Campbell's Sermon from the Church at Home service. Pastor Brian Campbell's 90 Second Sermon Summary. Grace, peace, & mercy to you from God, our Creator, our Christ, & our Counselor. AMEN.   ·  From now until Lent, I’ve selected a sermon series that goes through the Exodus story. o  The story in Exodus is about God providing for God’s people, even when they are in the most dire of straits, even if they fight what God is doing for them. o  I picked this topic and these lessons because they mirror the journey that the three Covenant Churches are on as we begin this new year. §  We to decide if we will be One Church Together, or if we need to find an alternative. ·  I bring up the question of IF be...