Sermon Series – Because God Said So: Doing the Difficult Thing The Math of Forgiveness Matthew 18:21-35 Our family is on our fifth year of Parks and Rec sports…and we have the collection of t-shirts to prove it. Teddy has played soccer, T-ball, coach pitch baseball, basketball and this fall we added flag football.
Summer Sermon Series – What Does It Mean to Be Wise? Week 7 (Final) – Ecclesiastes: Nevertheless, Joy Ecclesiastes 2:18-3:8 Preached by Rev. Lori Wunder at First Presbyterian Church, Mount Vernon, Iowa on August 27, 2017 So, I’m reading a novel right now. Actually, I’m re-reading it. I finished it on vacation and decided it
Summer Sermon Series – What Does It Mean to Be Wise? Week 6: Is Everything Pointless?!?? Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 (Common English Bible) There is nothing new under the sun, says “the Teacher” of Ecclesiastes. What a fitting verse since I have been feeling a strange sense of deja vu this week. We have had a verbal
Summer Sermon Series – What Does It Mean to Be Wise? Week 4 : The Wisdom of Desire Proverbs 8:1-21, Matthew 6:19-21 Wisdom, according to the Book of Proverbs, is a woman. Perhaps more accurately put, Wisdom is a feminine noun, and is personified as a woman in the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures. When
Dr. Seuss, Social Psychology and the Body of Christ Summer Sermon Series – Week 1 1 Corinthians 11:17-26 Late Wednesday afternoon, a man came to our house with a stump grinder. It was amazing to see how quickly he was able to turn all the stumps (big and small) into mulch, dirt and holes in
