Lectionary Yr B
(We have a missions speaker this week, October 14, 2007, so I'm not preaching Sunday. Here's a sermon I enjoyed preaching last year on the story of blind Bartimaeus.) Jesus, Help! mp3 Mark 10:46-52 The Story of A Blind Man This is a story that
Sermon Illustrations
I just posted, You Don't Need More Faith, my sermon for Sunday, Oct 7, 2007, taken from Luke 17:5-10. Click here to go to my sermon blog. Have a great day tomorrow! -- Chuck
Lectionary Yr C
You Don't Need More Faith - mp3 Luke 17:5-10 (background Luke 17:1-4) The Backstory Here's the scene: Jesus has just told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. You remember that story, we talked about it last week. A selfish, self-centered rich man
Lectionary Yr C
Can You Hear Me Now? mp3 file Luke 16:19-31 Verizon Asks Can You Hear Me Now? In 2004, Verizon launched a new ad campaign aimed at a recurring problem in the cell phone industry -- the inability to actually hear the person you're talking to. The ad
Sermons
I have just posted my sermon, Can You Hear Me Now?, for Sep 30, 2007, to my sermon blog. This is my reflection on the lectionary reading, Luke 16:19-31, the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Have a great day tomorrow!
Lectionary Yr C
Eternal Economics Download mp3 of Eternal Economics. Luke 16:1-13 The Way Things Really Work In the best-selling book, Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the authors examine several interesting economic problems, like "Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?" The conventional wisdom is that drug
Sermon Illustrations
My sermon for Sep 23, 2007, Eternal Economics from Luke 16:1-13, is posted on my sermon blog. I'm following the lectionary using the Gospel readings for my sermon texts, so let me know what you think. Have a great day tomorrow! -- Chuck
Sermons
My sermon, Looking for the Lost, is up at Chuck Warnock: Sermons, etc. Any thoughts? I now have a feed for both posts and comments, or you can bookmark for future sermons. Thanks for tuning in.
Lectionary Yr C
Looking for the Lost (Here's the mp3 from 9.16.07) Luke 15:1-10 Ravens lead searchers to lost woman Circling ravens and two men who decided not to rest on their day off led to the discovery of a 76-year-old woman who had been missing for almost
Community
Some of the posts that caught my eye this week are -- * Scot McKnight's post on "Breathe" as a lifestyle. Good stuff on regular "breathing" vs. cramming. * A new blog, Greensboro Abbey, by Zach Roberts. Read this explanation of emerging church terminology here. Oh,
Lectionary Yr C
Here's the mp3 link to this sermon from Sep 9, 2007. Text: Luke 14:25-33 An Invitation to Die Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the martyred German pastor and theologian, said most eloquently, "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." Not the kind of invitation
Sermons
Here's the link to the first draft of my sermon for September 9, 2007 -- Strange Demands of Jesus' Disciples, from Luke 14:25-33. This is subject to change, revision, or complete scrapping, but here it is for now.