Text: John 15:1-8 Theme: “Abide in Me” ___________________________ Intr – Imagine a person who became very invested in giving access to food to as many people as he noticed many families struggling to survive in his neighborhood. He then came up with an idea: he started giving Grocery Store free...

Text: John 10:11-16 Theme: “Love for the sheep” ___________________________ Intr –  The Good Shepherd Sunday is always a deep, rich well we can draw from. Here are a couple of highlights I wanted to reflect about with you today thinking especially of our Gospel reading.[1] 1 – The hired hand ...

Text: Luke 24:36-49, 1 John 3:1-7 Theme: Identity in Jesus Edited transcript[1] ____________________________ Intro – Dear friends in Christ, what is your “story of everything”? What is the story arc that explains life as you know it and  as you live it? I borrowed this concept from Professor Okamoto(Concordia Seminary,...

  Text: John 20:19-31 Theme: Words from the Word ___________________________ Watch the full sermon here   Intro – Are you familiar with the 7/38/55 rule for interpersonal Communication? If you Google it, you’ll find plenty of sources referring to it as the Mehrabian rule, which goes like this: interpersonal communication...

Text: Mark 16:1-8 Theme: The Empty Tomb (Series: 7 places, One story) Sermon Tran ___________________________ SERMON TRANSCRIPT (Watch it here) Intr – My friends in Christ, there’s a story about Good Friday, late afternoon.(It’s extra biblical, please don’t accuse me of heresy.) It’s a tale about Joseph of Arimathea coming...