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Sermons 2008
Duane Thompson


 

Current Month

  

May 3-4

 

When What If Becomes What Is

Text: "Then the Lord answered me and said, ' Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay."                                                      (Habakkuk 2:2-3)

  

May 10-11

 

The Other Woman

Text: "Then Jesus answered her, ' Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.' And her daughter was healed instantly."                                                            (Matthew 15:28)

  

May 17-18

 

Impossible, Improbable, Inevitable

Text: " In the lasts days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see vision, and your old men shall dream dreams."                                          (Acts 2:17)

  

May 24-25

 

Tom Funka preaching

  

May 31- June 1

 

Dr. Dan Aleshire preaching

 

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2008 Calendar Year

 

January 5-6

 

How to Live a New Life

Text: “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new.”                                                                          (II Corinthians 5:17)

  

January 12-13

 

How to Live a Happy Life

Text: “And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from Heaven said: 'This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.”                                               (Matthew 3:16-17)

  

January 19-20

 

How to Live a Long Life

Text:  “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days."           (Psalm 90:14)

  

January 26-27

 

Tom Funka preaching                                                        

  

February 2-3

 

How to Live a Significant Life

Text:   ...Jesus... led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white."                                            (Matthew 17: 1-2)

  

February 9-10

 

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

Text:  “Then (Jesus) began to say to them, 'Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, 'Is not this Joseph's son?'"                                                                    (Luke 4: 14-30)

  

February 16-17

 

Settling the Score for Good

Text: “Then Peter came and said to him, 'Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'Not seven times, but I tell you, seventy-seven times.'"                                                              (Matthew 18: 21-22)

  

February 23-24

 

The Problem with God

Text: "For (Jesus) said to him, 'Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!...' Then (the people) began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood."                                                        (Mark 5: 8,17)

  

March 1-2

 

The Peace of Wild Things

Text: "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words."                           (Romans 8:26)

  

March 8-9

 

What if There Were a Place?

Text: "And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, ' It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world."                           (John 4:41-42)

  

March 15-16

 

The Virtue of Being Out of Control

Text: "Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ' It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it a den of robbers.'"              (Matthew 21: 12-13)

  

March 22-23

 

The Beginning is Near

Text: "Early on the first day of the week while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb."                                          (John 20:1)

  

March 29-30

 

Believing is Seeing

Text: "Jesus said to him, ' Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."                                                            (John 20:29)

  

April 5-6

 

At the Heart of the Universe

Text: "(b)e filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts."                                      (Ephesians 5: 18b-19)

  

April 12-13

 

Good to Great in God's Eyes

Text: "And now Faith, Hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love!"                          (I Corinthians 13:13)

  

April 19-20

 

Youth Sunday - Christ Church youth delivering the message

  

April 26-27

 

The Power of Negative Thinking

Text: "(T) his one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus."                                                (Philippians 3: 13b-14)

  

May 3-4

 

When What If Becomes What Is

Text: "Then the Lord answered me and said, ' Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay."                                                      (Habakkuk 2:2-3)

  

May 10-11

 

The Other Woman

Text: "Then Jesus answered her, ' Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.' And her daughter was healed instantly."                                                            (Matthew 15:28)

  

May 17-18

 

Impossible, Improbable, Inevitable

Text: " In the lasts days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see vision, and your old men shall dream dreams."                                          (Acts 2:17)

  

May 24-25

 

Tom Funka preaching

  

May 31- June 1

 

Dr. Dan Aleshire preaching

  

June 7-8

 

Hanging on and Letting Go

Text: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"                                                                  (Psalm 27:1)

  

June 14-15

 

Rev. David Caldwell preaching

  

June 21-22

 

Rev. Tom Funka preaching his last sermon at Christ Church before retirement.

  

June 28-29

 

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself

Text: " (W)hatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."                              (Philippians 4: 4-13)

  

  

  

  

   
   

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