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December 2017

December 06, 2017

Because God Is Merciful

Before we retired a couple of years ago and moved to Oklahoma, we attended St....

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Walking away & walking it back

Another good sermon yesterday from Pastor Douthwaite on the third week the Gospel lesson has...

August 13, 2015

The Bread of Life

Pastor Douthwaite's sermon last Sunday was based on the reading from John 6, in which...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Jesus walking on the water

We had a great sermon last Sunday on Jesus walking on the water (Mark 6:45-56),...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

“Don’t you care that we are perishing?”

More great teaching and Biblical application from Pastor Douthwaite, preaching on Mark 4:35-41, about the...

June 18, 2015

The Kingdom of God is like a seed

With all of the stories about the alleged decline of Christianity, it was encouraging to...

May 2015

May 01, 2015

David, Jesus, and the 23rd Psalm

Last Sunday was the day in the church year when the regular round of Bible...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

Drinking His cup, being baptized with His baptism

Our sermon for the beginning of Passiontide was Mark 10:32-45, the passage about James and...

March 19, 2015

“We loathe this worthless food”

Last Sunday one of our Scripture readings was about the children of Israel complaining in...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Today is the March for Life, a day to protest the Roe v. Wade decision,...

January 09, 2015

The offering Christ wants from us

The Wise Men gave Christ gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. What gift do you...

January 08, 2015

Your Bethlehem; your manger

More from Pastor Douthwaite's Epiphany Sunday sermon, which pointed out that the Wise Men were...

January 07, 2015

Seeing with the eyes of faith

Like the Wise Men, Pastor Douthwaite last Sunday opened up treasures. Not gold, frankincense, and...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

John the Baptizer

The great figure of Advent is John the Baptist. We think of him as that...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

Legalism vs. Antinomianism vs. knowing the Master

Last Sunday our pastor preached on the dangers of falling into either of the two...

November 05, 2014

Blessed vs. Successful

If only the Kansas City Royals would have hit it out of the park as...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Bondage vs. Freedom

Our pastor said that each one of us is a "filthy, rotten, putrid, maggot-infested cesspool...

October 15, 2014

Invitation to the Feast

The New Testament reading for last Sunday was the parable about the king's invitations to...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Caution: Intense Law & intense Gospel

Sunday was the commemoration of St. Matthew. In the Gospel lesson, Matthew tells about how...

September 18, 2014

Finding the true Cross

Last Sunday was Holy Cross Day, an ancient celebration that originally commemorated St. Helena (Constantine's...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

When life contradicts God’s Word

Last Sunday, the sermon was about that puzzling passage in which Jesus seems at first...

August 07, 2014

Being practical vs. having compassion

Last Sunday's sermon was a great take on the feeding of the five thousand. Pastor...

August 06, 2014

You are the pearl of great price

Two Sundays ago, the sermon was on these parables from Matthew 13: 44 “The kingdom...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Freedom vs. slavery

In church last Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite's sermon dealt with the question St. Paul raises, Are...

June 05, 2014

The apostolic loser

Last Sunday, our pastor preached on the text about the apostles' lottery for who would...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

“With fear and great joy”

When the Angel of the empty tomb appeared to the Roman guards, those courageous battle-hardened...

April 15, 2014

What the Bible is all about

On Sunday we read the entire Passion narrative from Matthew 26-27. Read what our pastor...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Creation and the new creation

In last Sunday's sermon on the dialog between Nicodemus and Jesus (John 3), our pastor...

March 12, 2014

Temptation to a false good

The Old Testament reading for the first Sunday of Lent was about Satan's successful temptation...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

How to see what is invisible

The final gem I want to share with you from last Sunday's sermon at our...