Author Archives: St. Mark’s

Sermon – January 29, 2012: What is Your Relationship Status?

Join us this Sunday for week 3 of our Extreme Makeover: Christian Edition sermon series.  Last week we learned that a certain amount of work is a good and joyful thing but that we must also give time and energy to relationships, care of the body, and rest.  The key is discerning a balance.  This [...]

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Sermon – January 22, 2012: Knowing When to Say When – to WORK

This Sunday we will continue our series Extreme Makeover: Christian Edition.  Last week was an introduction to the series.  This Sunday we will focus in particular on WORK in all its forms (paid as well as unpaid).  We will take a look at some statistics related to our general work habits and seek to determine [...]

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Sermon – January 15, 2012: How Are Your Juggling Skills?

Each week the hit reality TV show Extreme Makeover:  Home Edition features a home in desperate need of a radical transformation.  Over the course of seven days and with the help of hundreds of volunteers a whole new home is designed and built.  The makeover offers the selected family a whole new lease on life.  [...]

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Sermon – January 8, 2012: Baptism: Not for the Faint of Heart

Have you ever stood on the shore and watched the waves lap against the beach? Water can be absolutely beautiful. And yet, it is also an extraordinarily mighty force. It has the power to bring new life but it also has the power to change life. The same is true for the waters of baptism. [...]

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Sermon – January 1, 2012: Festival of Lessons and Carols

Be sure to join us this Sunday at our regularly scheduled worship times, 8:30 am and 11 am, in the newly renovated sanctuary for a traditional service of Lessons and Carols. 
First Lesson:  Genesis 3:8-15
First Carol:  “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice!”
Second Lesson:  Isaiah 9:2-7
Second Carol:  “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”
Third Lesson:  Luke 1:26-38
Third Carol:  “What Child Is [...]

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Sermon – December 25, 2011: It is More Blessed to Re-gift

This year we are so blessed that Christmas Day falls on a Sunday.  So come on Sunday morning at 10:30 am and help tell the world that our Savior, Christ the Lord, is born.  Children are invited to bring 1 toy they received as a gift for Christmas with them for the Blessing of The [...]

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Sermon – December 24, 2011: Hunger No More

The 5 pm Christmas Eve Communion service will include A Message For The Children and A Message For Us All.  Like all good gifts, on Christmas Eve the children’s message comes with the warning label ’some assembly required’.  With the children’s help, at 5 pm, we will re-tell the Good News of Christmas (Luke 2:1-20 [...]

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Sermon – December 18, 2011: This Changes Everything!

This Sunday we will journey with Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem (Luke 2:1-7 ).  We will hear the news that God has revealed himself to the world through the birth of Christ our Lord.  In response we will rejoice and give thanks but we will see that their journey is far from over [...]

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Sermon – December 11, 2011: A Song For All Time

How do you react to Good News?  What is your response to being in Christ’s presence?  This week we continue our Star Trek: Journey to Bethlehem and Beyond.  We will journey with Mary from Nazareth to Ein Karem – to the home of her relatives Elizabeth and Zechariah (Luke 1:39-55 ).  We will hear of [...]

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Sermon – December 4, 2011: What to Do When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

Most if not all of us have grand dreams and plans for our lives.  We have a sense of how we would like, our lives to play out.  Yet more often than we would like things don’t nececcarily go according to plan!  This is certainly true for Joseph of Bethlehem.  This Sunday we will explore [...]

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