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Sermons 2007
Duane Thompson


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July 15

 

Living Between Memory and Foretaste

Text: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners.”                 (Isaiah 61:1)

  

July 22

 

What Masters You

Text: “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other.”                                                    (Matthew 6:24)

  

July 29

 

Making Music With What You Have Left

Text:  “My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make melody"                         (Psalm 57:7)

  

August 5

 

John Shaver preaching                                                            

  

August 12

 

Who Do You Think You Are

Text:   “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor."            (Psalm 8:4-5)

  

August 19

 

When One Plus One Equals More Than Two

Text:  “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.”      (Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10)

  

August 26

 

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There

Text: “Be still and know that I am God.”      (Psalm 46:10)

  

September 2

 

The Quality of a Hero

Text: "And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, and sixty and a hundred-fold!"                                                        (Mark 4:20)

  

September 9

 

Still Haven't Found What You're Looking For?

Text: "So Jesus asked the twelve, 'Do you also wish to go away?' Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.'"                           (John 6: 67-68)

  

September 16

 

Find Something to Believe In

Text: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life."                                                   (John 3:16)

  

September 23

 

James Bond and Jesus

Text: "For by Grace you have been saved by faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works so that no one may boast."                                       (Ephesians 2: 8-9)

  

September 30

 

Sharing God's Amazing Grace

Text: "Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and all that you give me I will surely give one tenth to you."                       (Genesis 28: 20-22)

  

October 7

 

The Power of a Deadline

Text: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God... So teach us to count our days that we may gain a vise heart."                                                            (Psalm 90: 2, 12)

  

October 14

 

UMW "Thank Offering" Weekend - Rev. Pat Harbison will be preaching.                          

  

October 21

 

When the Good Life Isn't Good Enough

Text: "Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions."  (Luke 12:15)

  

October 28

 

Amazingly Graced

Text: "His master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master."                                                                   (Matthew 25: 21)

  

November 4

 

How to Build a Haunted House

Text: "Walk about Zion, go all around it, counts its towers, consider well its ramparts; go through its citadels, that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide forever."                                                (Psalm 48: 12-14)

  

November 11

 

When You've Fallen and Can't Get Up

Text: "But when Peter noticed the strong wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, 'Lord, save me!' Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, 'You of little faith, why did you doubt?"                                                               (Matthew 14: 22-36)

  

November 18

 

Enlarging our Vision of Him

Text: "To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him. From Heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On Earth he showed you his great fire. While you heard his words coming out of the fire."                                                              (Deuteronomy 4:35-36)

  

November 25

 

Tom Funka preaching

  

December 2

 

Me, Myself and Isaiah

Text: "Surely God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation...Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known his deeds among nations; proclaim his name is exalted."                                                                      (Isaiah 12: 1-6)

  

December 9

 

Destiny's Child

Text: "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the falting together, and a little child shall lead them."                                   (Isaiah 11: 6)

  

December 16

 

There's Something About Mary

Text: "...then Mary said, 'Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your world'"                       (Luke 1:38)

  

December 23

 

A Gift From the Heart

Text: "All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet; 'Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,' which means 'God is with us'."                                                               (Matthew 1: 18-25)

  

December 24

 

The Message to the Planet

Text: "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!"                                                                    (Luke 2:1-20)

  

Click here for a listing of Rev. Thompson's 2008 sermons.

  

  

   
   

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