Sermons
Sermon – ‘Forgiveness: It’s More Than Debts and Debtors!’
Last Sunday we finished up our summer sermon series on the Book of Acts. For those of you who followed it throughout the summer, I must tell you that you now know more about Acts than most seminary students. Today we will turn to the Gospel of Matthew and will continue in Matthew, studying Jesus’
Sermon – Back on the Road Again – Journey #2
In one of the churches I previously served, we came up with an evangelism plan. At the Annual Meeting which takes place in most Presbyterian Churches in January where the budget is discussed, we would give a St. Paul the Evangelist Award to the member who invited and brought to church the most guests during
Visions and Dreams
Hi everyone! I’m Karen Collier. I’m one of the elders here at Riviera. I want to thank Pastor Missy for allowing me to speak to you today. The book of Acts is filled with so many interesting and exciting stories. The story of the encounter of Peter and Cornelius is one of them. One of
Conversions
This summer we are studying the Book of Acts which tells the story of the early Christians, following Jesus’ death, growing from a small sect within Judaism to an international religion. In the weeks prior we have seen the Holy Spirit at work moving the disciples out into the countryside telling people of the teachings
Sermon – Speaking God’s Truth in Politically Charged Environment
The great theologians of the last century had a common thread in their belief that faith and church cannot live outside of society. Bonhoeffer, the Niebuhr brothers, Tillich, and Tutu and Coffin all saw the role of church and religion to be in the daily dirt of humanity. They were not mystics, but saw that
Sermon – True Communication
A remarkable practice has developed during this period of social distancing, insecurity, and emotional unrest due to the CO-Vid 19 pandemic where people are asked to look each day for where you see God and where you see God’s message in what is happening. And I must admit, it is easier to see God’s message
Sermon – The Promise and The Charge
Today we begin our summer sermon series on the Book of Acts. I was brought up as a good Presbyterian child. What I knew about the Bible was through the sermons delivered on Sunday and the wonderful Hebrew Bible stories brought to life by my Sunday School teacher Mr. Landgraf. The Rev. Henry Anderson’s sermons
Sermon – God Be With You Until We Meet Again
The Gospel of John is not the easiest gospel to read. Having been written a generation after the synoptic Gospels, it contains theology and mysticism that is not found in the other three Gospels and is harder to decipher. Where the other Gospels tell the where and when of the story, John tries to explain
Sermon – What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love
In his Wednesday morning blog, Catholic Priest and Theologian Richard Rohr made the conclusion that because Jesus’ fundamental vision was that all people are ‘children of God’ whenever he met a person he would have therefore believed that God was somehow present in them. And any of us who take or have taken a yoga