Category: Religion
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Thanks for Earthly Saints
given on Sunday, November 1, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000187 EndHTML:0000025430 StartFragment:0000003387 EndFragment:0000025394 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Scripts/Nov%201%20script.doc Today begins November. November means Thanksgiving to me even though there is a day devoted to elections, another day for remembering a war and our veterans. I even have three generations of birthdays to remember—my sister-in-law, husband’s son,…
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How do you praise God in the rain?
given on Sunday, October 18, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000188 EndHTML:0000020294 StartFragment:0000002399 EndFragment:0000020258 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Scripts/Oct%2018%20script.doc The rain has really gotten to me this week. I suppose it would not be so frustrating if the sun could have popped out at least once a day. The grey sky, the multiple levels of clouds, the…
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Praise Season
given on Sunday, October 11, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000186 EndHTML:0000022144 StartFragment:0000002326 EndFragment:0000022108 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/Praise%20Season.doc I suppose it was inevitable. There is no way to avoid using that scripture. You know the one I am talking about, the one about the seasons. Here we are rushing through the seasons this year. We are…
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Faith Is Everyday
given on Sunday, October 4, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000187 EndHTML:0000017748 StartFragment:0000002140 EndFragment:0000017712 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Scripts/Oct%204%20script.doc With all the business of everyday living over- whelming me this week, I found myself struggling. I could not come up with a theme or an idea or a verse or even a hymn to use for today’s…
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Proverbs: A Christian Manual Part III
given on Sunday, September 27, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000033803 StartFragment:0000003460 EndFragment:0000033767 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/ProverbsIII.doc During a casual conversation about this set of sermons on Proverbs, I heard—or should I say witnessed—one individual shot hands up and tremor saying, “Proverbs! I studied that for 12 weeks…” Right then and there I knew it…
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Proverbs: A Christian Manual
given on Sunday, September 13, 2009 This is the first of a mini-series. Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000179 EndHTML:0000033750 StartFragment:0000004845 EndFragment:0000033714 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/Proverbs.doc Proverbs: A Christian’s Manual I suppose almost every one of us has wondered why in the world there is not a handy manual for raising kids these days. We grow up,…
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Broken or Not
given on Sunday, September 6, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000188 EndHTML:0000017036 StartFragment:0000002294 EndFragment:0000017000 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/Broken%20or%20Not.doc Have you ever had something that was special to you that broke? There is a sense of anger or hurt, often depending on how the item was broken, when you discover the damage. Sometimes you do not see…
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Caught in a Balancing Act
given on Sunday, August 30, 2009 “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.…
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What Now?
given on Sunday, July 26, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000181 EndHTML:0000027264 StartFragment:0000003277 EndFragment:0000027228 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/What%20Now.doc Well, did you check out what your spiritual gifts this week? If you did, great. If you did not, then I hope you at least read through the descriptors of the spiritual gifts. As I read through them…
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What Gifts?
given on Sunday, July 19, 2009 Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000183 EndHTML:0000024171 StartFragment:0000002997 EndFragment:0000024135 SourceURL:file:///Mom’s%20Stuff/Church/Y2%20ChilNor/Sermons/What%20Gifts.doc The scriptures for the last two Sundays referred to gifts: gifts of the Holy Spirit. We have read the list in various forms, but when you go to the UMC website and read about spiritual gifts, you may…
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