Peacemakers: Sustaining and Creating Harmony

Matthew 5.9 – November 8, 2009
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Building Bridges Over Troubled Waters (Active Peacemaking)

Blessed are the peacemakers, those who work to sustain and create harmony in their personal relationships. Peacemaking is not only avoiding the attitudes and behaviors that cause disharmony, but it is also taking the positive steps towards restoring harmony when it is lost. Turning to the Scriptures, I offer to you today a few biblical [...]

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First Do No Harm (Passive Peacemaking)

Quoting from the modern source of all knowledge (tongue firmly in cheek), the collaborative encyclopedia “wikipedia” writes,
Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means “First, do no harm.” The phrase is sometimes recorded as primum nil nocere. Nonmaleficence, which derives from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts that all medical students are [...]

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Mercy: Compassion in a Context

November 1, 2009
Matthew 5.7
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Blessed are the Peacemakers (Matthew 5.9)

The text for Sunday morning’s sermon is the 7th beatitude:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God (Matthew 5.9)

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Open Source Sermon (Tuesday, October 27)

The prophet Micah made a powerful statement many years ago. He wrote,
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6.8)
What does God want from us? To act justly, to love mercy, [...]

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Open Source Sermon (Thursday, October 22)

Most of us are familiar with the most famous of all of the miracles of Jesus, the feeding of the 5000. It is the only miracle recorded in all four gospels. Unfortunately, most of us are not as familiar with the follow up conversation Jesus had with those who experienced the miracle firsthand. You can [...]

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Open Source Sermon (Wednesday, October 21)

Hunger plays a prominent role in the biblical narrative. From the very beginning, it was mankind’s hunger that broke up their fellowship with the Divine. Remember Adam and Eve? They saw that the fruit of the forbidden tree was good, and pleasing to the eye, and desirable. Their hunger was natural, even God created, but [...]

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Open Source Sermon (Tuesday, October 20)

Our text for this week is Matthew 5.6, where Jesus speaks the fourth beatitude:
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (NIV)
A good place to start with Bible study is with an effort to understand the meaning of the words used by Jesus. When used metaphorically, “hunger” means “to [...]

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Open Source Sermon (Thursday, October 15)

Did you know that the world is coming to an end on December 21, 2012? The ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar comes to an abrupt end on that date, and there is a group of folks preparing for the end of the world…sort of.
You can visit their website and read all sorts of information [...]

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