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Lenten Sermon Series and "tweeting the sermon"
(Note: this post was originally posted at The Online Grapevine, our church's online newsletter and email list. To sign up, click HERE). More and more in my preaching, I find myself gravitating toward...
View ArticleIN THE WILDERNESS - ASH WEDNESDAY
Exodus 12:37-39, 50-51Steve LindsleyAsh Wednesday ServiceFebruary 13, 2013Listen to SermonThe Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A...
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GROWING SPIRITUALLY AS A CHURCH: RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Deuteronomy 10: 12-22; Luke 19: 1-10Steve LindsleyFebruary 17, 2013Listen to Sermon So – since the first Sunday of this year, we have been pondering how we, First Presbyterian Church, can grow...
View ArticleGROWING SPIRITUALLY AS A CHURCH: PASSIONATE WORSHIP
Psalm 84: 1-12Steve LindsleyFebruary 24, 2013Listen to Sermon Back in 2001, a new Presbyterian church was founded in a quaint little town in our great state. The church began, as most new churches do,...
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GROWING SPIRITUALLY AS A CHURCH: INTENTIONAL FAITH DEVELOPMENT
Deuteronomy 6: 1-9; Galatians 5: 13-25Steve LindsleyMarch 10, 2013Listen to SermonSo I told you I was going to share with you about this ribbon I’m wearing around my neck this morning. It’s actually a...
View ArticleGROWING SPIRITUALLY AS A CHURCH: RISK-TAKING MISSION AND SERVICE
Matthew 25: 31-46Steve LindsleyMarch 17, 2013Listen to Sermon When I was in seminary, I had to take a unit of what’s called “CPE,” or “Clinical Pastoral Education.” The program lasts from three months...
View ArticleGROWING SPIRITUALLY AS A CHURCH: EXTRAVAGANT GENEROSITY
Exodus 35: 4-29, 36:2-7; 2 Corinthians 9: 1-15Steve LindsleyMarch 24, 2013Listen to Sermon Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough in your life to know someone like Oseola McCarty. Mrs. McCarty was a...
View ArticleWASHING FEET
Maundy ThursdayJohn 13: 1-20Steve LindsleyMarch 28, 2013Tonight’s Maundy Thursday service includes, among other things, a footwashing. Let me emphasize that it is optional. I want to emphasize this...
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FINDING EVERYTHING IN AN EMPTY TOMB
Luke 24: 1-12Steve LindsleyMarch 31, 2013Easter SundayListen to Sermon There is a place out in the vast expanse of our universe that has within it, quite literally, nothing. A massive void, nearly a...
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"Thirty Seconds of Gratitude" from Thoughts & Musings
I don't usually cross-polinate between my sermon blog and "other" blog. But since it's going to be a few weeks between sermons (the family was on vacation this past Sunday and we're welcoming a guest...
View ArticleWhen the congregation writes the sermon's ending
One other non-sermon post and then I'll stop. Although to be honest, this really is more of a "sermon sequel."Back in February, I preached a sermon called Raise The Roof! It was the beginning of our...
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Special music & a special sermon this Sunday
Today I happily shared the pulpit with Rev. Bailey Edwards Nelson, who preached a whale of a sermon titled, "Inside Out." This freed me up to play with H20 N2 Wine (our worship acoustic group) on the...
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AS THE TREMORS SHIFT MOUNTAINS
Psalm 46: 1-11; Philippians 4: 4-7Steve LindsleyApril 21, 2013Listen to Sermon I’m going to level with you this morning, folks: today’s sermon just may be the most honest sermon I’ve ever preached from...
View ArticleWHEN GOD SENDS A REALLY LONG TEXT
Romans 5: 1-8Steve LindsleyConfirmation SundayApril 28, 2013Listen to Sermon A minister friend of mine told me a story he used to share with his church's confirmation class. A man was hiking in the...
View ArticleALL THE DOORS, SWINGING LOOSE ON THEIR HINGES
Acts 16: 16-34Steve LindsleyMay 5, 2013Listen to Sermon Today’s scripture is one of those wonderful instances in the Bible where multiple lives and their multiple stories collide. Like winding roads...
View ArticleSO WHAT'S REALLY IN A NAME?
Hosea 1: 2-11Steve LindsleyMay 12, 2013So what’s really in a name? It’s the kind of thing Moms and Dads spend a lot of time thinking about when there’s a child on the way, isn’t it? A few weeks ago,...
View ArticleMORE THAN JUST PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH
Jeremiah 1: 4-10Steve LindsleyMay 26, 2013Listen to Sermon The annual shareholder’s meeting is next week, and there’s a knock at your door. It’s your boss, and she’s asked you to give the opening...
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REMEMBERING HOME
Psalm 137: 1-9; Luke 15: 1-7Steve LindsleyJune 2, 2013 Listen to Sermon Tell me what you think of when I say the word “home.That’s how I began our Bob Chilton Bible study a week ago - the dozen of us...
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SIGHS TOO DEEP FOR WORDS
Romans 8: 26-27, 31-39Steve LindsleyJune 9, 2013 I’m at a loss for words. That’s how the reporter on the left side of the TV screen responded when her colleague on the right, the one all holed up...
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