Change Is Good, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 22, 2012, on Jonah 3:1-5,10 and MK 1:11-20 If I had to give a one word summary of what our readings for today are all about I would have to say they are about change. Now one of the things that [...]
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Coffee Talk Redux #110 – Change is Good
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Coffee Talk Redux #109 – H Two O
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H Two O, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 8, 2012, on MK 1:4-11 When I was a little boy, in the dog days of summer, I liked to lay on my back in the fields of tall grass behind my house and look up in the sky [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #108 – Begotten, Not Made
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Begotten, Not Made, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on December 18,2011, on Luke 1:26-38 When I was a young boy one of things I liked to do was to read science fiction books. One thing that really caught my attention was the idea of time travel. I thought it [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #107 – People Get Ready
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People Get Ready, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on November 27, 2011, on MK 13:24-37 Good Morning! Today marks the beginning of the season of Advent and the start of our new Church Year, so on behalf of the church, Happy New Year! Advent is celebrated on the first [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #106 – Indifference
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(Gospel Matthew 25:31- 46) Today we celebrate Christ the King Sunday and our Lutheran tradition has this day fall on the final Sunday of our church year, so today is also the end of what we call Ordinary Time or the time after Pentecost. Next Sunday we begin the season of Advent which is a [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #105 – If Not Me, Then Who?
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“A little boy attended church with his grandfather one Sunday. Grandpa’s church, much like our church here, had beautiful stained glass windows. The little boy was curious about the people that were in these stained glass windows so Grandpa told his grandson that the windows contained pictures of Jesus and many of His Apostles and [...]
Coffee Talk Redux # 104 – What’s Love Got to Do With It?
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So how many of you really like trick questions? You probably still remember those homework problems or exams that you took in school where your teacher threw you a curve ball and gave you a trick question. Trick questions tend to challenge our understanding, they sort of put us on the spot, they knock [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #102 – Walk the Talk
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In our gospel lesson for today Jesus and the Pharisees are exchanging what we might call today trick questions. Trick questions are tricky because they either cause us to jump right away to the wrong conclusion or they seem to be just too confusing with no clear answer, or they can even place us [...]
CoffeeTalk Redux #101 – Busted
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So have you ever had one of those times in your life when everything just seems to be going your way? Maybe this is at work, or at school, or in your social group, or maybe even here at church. You are on top of the world, everyone loves you, every hand you are dealt [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #100 – It’s like…
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A few weeks ago at our Vacation Bible School I was talking with a man from our surrounding community who was very upset because of the sudden death of his good friend. This man and his friend Jeff that had died were both active in another church in our neighborhood and he took comfort in his own faith [...]
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