(4)Elijah and Jesus I Kings 19:4-8 By Pastor Noel Ilagan Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Chances are everyone of us have had the blues; but not everyone has suffered from depression. We Read More …
SERMON Lectionary 14b 2018 God Bless America By Pastor Leo E. Longan GOD BLESS AMERICA. It’s not in our hymnal – I don’t know whether it’s in any hymnal – but it wouldn’t surprise me if this famous song found a place in the Read More …
Sermon Lectionary 13B 2018 Jairus’ Daughter By Pastor Leo E. Longan If you’ve been listening to sermons for a while, you certainly will have noticed the way preachers try to get your attention by opening with some sort of gimmick: we wear something, we wield Read More …
SERMON Easter Day 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Well, I finally just Googled it: Easter April Fools. The weird calendar this year, with Ash Wednesday on Valentines Day, Good Friday on Passover, and Easter on April Fools Day … as a preacher I Read More …
SERMON Lent4a 2018 John 3:16 By Pastor Leo E. Longan When I learned it, it went like this: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. I Read More …
SERMON Lent 3b 2018 Billy Graham and Evangelicals By Pastor Leo E. Longan I think you all must know by now that Billy Graham died last week. Do I need to tell anybody who he was? Billy Graham was a Christian evangelist, a Southern Read More …
SERMON Lent 1B 2018 Mark: Temptation of Jesus/Rimbo Resignation By Pastor Leo E. Longan Do you know where you were baptized? And when? The date, the town, the church or maybe at home, some of you. The name of the pastor? I had to look Read More …
SERMON Transfiguration 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan We have been together a long time, long enough for you to have discovered that I’m not much of a sports fan. But as someone who lived in Philadelphia for several years long ago – and loved Read More …
SERMON Epiphany 5b 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Annual Meeting: the Mirror and the Miracle Today as we gather to do the work of this community in our annual meeting of the congregation, perhaps a little back-to-basics is in order, starting with this Read More …
SERMON Epiphany 4b 2018 By Pastor Leo E. Longan Germans are very creative people, and that is nowhere more apparent than in the way they use their language. Germans love to make up words, and they have come up with some doozies. I found one Read More …