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"It Figures"
Rev. Sue Ann Schmidt
Text: Luke 17:11-19
Psalm 66:1-7
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"Tour de Faith"
Text: John 14:8-14
2 Timothy 4:6-8
When I was a youngster, I used to do a lot of bicycling; not so much as a form of fun or exercise, but as a practical means of transportation. In those days, many families had only one automobile. That was the case in my family. So if I wanted to get somewhere within a reasonable I was usually on my own.
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"Of Sacred Song, Memory, and Wisdom"
Text: Ephesians 5:15-20
Psalm 100
We all have a favorite song. I have a bunch. What I find interesting is that while I may not be able to remember specific details from events in my life that took place twenty or thirty years ago, even the biggest ones, I can remember every line from a hit song from my high school or college days. For instance, a few weeks ago, I heard a song on my car radio that I hadn’t heard in I don’t know how long. Yet upon hearing the first few bars of the music, the lyrics came back to me like I’d just heard them yesterday, and I sang along:
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"Jesus, What Gives?!"
Text: Luke 16:1-9
Matthew 10:16-20
Since it’s now well into high school football season, I thought it might be time for an outrageous, but true, high school football story. 1997. The underdog Mustangs of Flinthills High in Rosalie, Kansas were facing rival Elk Village Patriots. After the opening kickoff, as the teams lined up for the first play from scrimmage, Mustang quarterback Dan Scribner and his center Tylen Hall pretended that the ball on the field was underinflated.
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"Lazybones"
Text: Proverbs 24:30-34
1 Corinthians 15:58
Have you ever had the experience of working with someone who was just downright lazy? It can be frustrating, even maddening, to labor side-by-side with someone who doesn’t carry his or her load. We who work hard often seem to get stuck doing the work of two and more per- sons. And that can be a great source of both discouragement and anger.
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"Telling Time"
Text: Psalm 90:1-17
2 Peter 3:8-9
Here’s a little audience participation piece. The question: What do you consider the most life- changing invention of all time? An historian and social critic from the University of Chicago by the name of Daniel Boorstin – now deceased – once stated that the most life-changing invention of all time is the mechanical clock.
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"One Thing Never Changes"
Text: Romans 11;1-2a; 29-32
Genesis 12:1-3
It saddens me to say this, but it’s getting harder by the year to return to my hometown of Coraopolis in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The house on Ridge Avenue where I grew up – a house which my mom and dad worked so hard to remodel and refurbish over the forty years they lived there -- looks like it’s ready to fall down for recent lack of care.
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"A Global Vision for a Local Church"
Rev. John Sittema
Text: Revelation 5
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"One Miraculous Meal!"
Text: Matthew 14:13-21
Psalm 34:1-10
This feeding of the masses miracle of Jesus is one of the few recorded in all four gospels: Mark 6, Luke 9, John 6, and here in Matthew 14. So there must be an important message in this miracle story about human need, and about our capacity as disciples of Christ to help meet human need.