Sermons

Drifting or Anchored
  • February 23, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
The Transfiguration Year A Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9   The summer after I graduated from high school… in 1971… I went to Israel for eight weeks… it was my parent’s idea… and I went with about 90 other college students… who I think were all Jewish… because the trip...
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Limits and Minimums
  • February 16, 2020
  • The Rev. Mike Wernick
  • Sermons
Epiphany 6 Year A Sirach 15:15-20 Psalm 119 1-8 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Matthew 5:21-37   Hello… my name is Mike… and I am a sinner… no matter what I do… or don’t do… I am a sinner… not because I want to be… not because of Original Sin… but because I am separated from...
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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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