Transfigured, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on February 19, 2012, MK 9:2-9 So, what amazes you? What fills you with wonder? What wows you? So think for a moment, perhaps there is an event in your life, an experience, or maybe it is something you have seen that took your breath [...]
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Coffee Talk Redux #111 – Transfigured
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Coffee Talk Redux #110 – Change is Good
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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 [...]
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 #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 # 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 [...]
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…
Posted in coffee talk redux, sermons, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, sermons, spirituality, theology on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #99 – You’re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody
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Within the cycle and rhythm of the church calendar this past week we began what is called Ordinary Time, also known as the time after Pentecost. Ordinary time is the other main division of the church’s year and stretches from Pentecost until Advent which this year occurs on Sunday November 27th.
Coffee Talk Redux #54 – Everyone Loves a Mystery
Posted in coffee talk redux, meditations, sermons, tagged Bible, christ, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, sermons, theology on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following is the text of a sermon I gave at St. James Lutheran Church in Toledo on Holy Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2009. Since today is Holy Trinity Sunday I thought I would run this piece again. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was [...]
In the News – Herding Sheep
Posted in in the news, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, religion, sermons, theology on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a great article about the need for preaching from the online Christianity Today, Read books on spiritual formation and you will be hard pressed to find any that list listening to the preaching of God’s Word as a first-order spiritual discipline. It may be mentioned under the broader category of reading and studying the [...]