Sermons

Screen Time Gospel
  • February 9, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
Epiphany 5 Year A Isaiah 58:1-12 Psalm 112:1-9 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 Matthew 5:13-20 I don’t like doom and gloom… or fire and brimstone… and some of you may not know that I grew up… believing that TV evangelists like John Hagee… and Jerry Falwell… and now Franklin Graham… represented all of Christendom… but I’ve...
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Waiting for Redemption
  • February 2, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
The Presentation Year A Malachi 3:1-4 Psalm 24:7-10 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 Bill Williams had been a semi-professional musician… an electronics technician… and a computer and video game designer… but he gave all that up to pursue a Master of Arts Degree from the Lutheran School of Theology… in Chicago… where he received an...
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For What are We Listening?
  • January 27, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
Epiphany 3 Year A Isaiah 9:1-4 Psalm 27:1, 5-13 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23 It’s still Epiphany… and Jesus is still calling disciples… but first… there’s a story about a farmer from a rural part of the country… and this farmer comes to visit a relative in the big city… and they’re walking down...
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For What are We Looking?
  • January 19, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
Epiphany 2 – Year A Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-12 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 John 1:29-42 It’s still Epiphany… the light of the world… is still revealing itself to the world… in the time frame of today’s Gospel… and in ours… John’s question… are you the one who is to come… or are we to wait...
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The Light Within Us
  • January 12, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
Epiphany 1 – Year A Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm 29 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 Some of the things we do… are things we do in private… to be accountable to ourselves… for example… Matthew 6:5-6 instructs us… that when we pray… we’re not to be like those who wear false masks… and pray on street...
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