Sermon Resources: A Psalm for Processing Pain and Loss

Psalm 88:1-9a,18   RESOURCES: Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self by Chuck DeGroat Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzer Believe: A Young Widow’s Journey Through Brokenness and Back by Jennifer Silvera A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry Sittser Eyes that...

Sermon Resources: Too Much of a Good Thing

“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well,...

Sermon Resources: Rule of Life Worksheet

Here's a link to the file I reference in the sermon this past Sunday: Rule of Life Worksheet. For more Rule of Life resources visit Steve Macchia's Rule of Life website....

During this past Sunday's sermon, I referenced a podcast in which Pete Scazzero referred to our enemies as saint-makers. You can find more here:   Loving Your Enemies as Saint Makers @ Emotionally Healthy Discipleship...

Sermon Resources: Mary The Mother of Jesus

Here is the Suscipe Prayer quoted in this past Sunday's sermon. It is from Ignatius of Loyola:   Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything...

Sermon Resources: Mary Magdalene and Women in Ministry

BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS WORTH READING:   MARY MAGDALENE https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-women-bible/Mary-Magdalene WOMEN PREACHERS?  WHERE’S THAT IN THE BIBLE? https://escapetoreality.org/2017/10/10/women-preachers-in-the-bible/ THE NEGLECTED HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE EARLY CHURCH A number of prominent leaders, scholars, and benefactors of the early church were women and—despite neglect by many modern historians—the diligent researcher can still uncover...

Sermon Resources: Men and Women in the Bible

For further reading from this past Sunday's sermon on "Men and Women in the Bible," see Sarah Sumner's book, "Men and Women in the Church."...

Sermon Resources: Wilderness Temptations to Grandeur

For further reading about the nature of Jesus's temptation in the wilderness, see Henri Nouwen's book, In the Name of Jesus.   Quotes from this week's sermon:   “suddenly began to weep, to tear his hair and lament. His disciples said to him ‘Why are you weeping, Father?’ and the...