Sermons for Use
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These sermons are available for use in your local context. Please peruse the list and search for a sermon that will work for you and your church.
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Louisiana Pastors
John Cannon
Asbury United Methodist Church, Lafayette, LA
Emily Carroll
Shady Grove United Methodist Church, Mansfield, LA
Don't Give Up: Wait, Watch, Write
A sermon of encouragement, where the hearer gleans from the prophet Habakkuk. Our scripture denotes a time and space with much despair and tears of complaint, and how God responded to his complaint. Giving guidance on what to do when one is going through difficult times. One learns to continue to have Faith in God and Don't Give Up: Wait, Watch, and Write.
Clifton Conrad
Asbury UMC and St. Matthew's UMC, New Orleans, LA
Being Bitter or Better
Behavioral Objective: To move the hearer to understanding that following these commandments will help you to be better and not bitter.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Jehovah Raah
Behavioral objective: To move the hearer to understanding that God is our Jehovah Raah, who shepherds us through our relationship with God.
Psalm:23:1
Living Your Faith
Behavioral Objective: To move the hearer to being committed to living their life in obedience to God.
Romans 16:25-27
What's My Name?
Behavioral Objective: To move the hearers to understanding the significance of knowing God’s name.
Exodus 3:13-14
Betsy Eaves
Grace Community, Shreveport, LA
Michelle Harris
St. Charles United Methodist Church, Destrehan, LA
Fruits of the Spirit Gentleness
Rev Michelle Harris offers a sermon inspired by Galations 5:22-23 on Gentleness as strength (as opposed to culture's usual perception of gentleness as weakness). The primary Scripture passage is Matthew 11:28-30. She uses both the NIV and the Message translation, extrapolating on the gentle posture of Christ, the meaning of taking on the yoke of Jesus, and what it means to engage in the "unforced rhythms of grace."
Robert Johnson
Louisiana Ave, Lafayette, LA, Indian Bayou, Rayne, LA, and Kaplan UMC, Kaplan, LA
Live Worship at The Avenue
Rev Michelle Harris offers a sermon inspired by Galations 5:22-23 on Gentleness as strength (as opposed to culture's usual perception of gentleness as weakness). The primary Scripture passage is Matthew 11:28-30. She uses both the NIV and the Message translation, extrapolating on the gentle posture of Christ, the meaning of taking on the yoke of Jesus, and what it means to engage in the "unforced rhythms of grace."
Karli Pidgeon
Lake Charles District Superintendent
Matt Rawle
Asbury United Methodist Church, Bossier City, LA
Katie McKay Simpson
University United Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, LA
Sermon Series: The Essential Work of Hope
There’s been a lot of talk during this season about the “essential work” in our communities needed to keep us alive and flourishing. These workers are the ones that labor tirelessly to provide the basics of what we would need for life.
For the Christian, the essential but often invisible work of hope perhaps is the most powerful source of life we have in our present circumstances. Throughout generations of the people of God, hope is the one thread that kept exiles moving through the wilderness, prophets continuing to speak truth, and the early church growing in the midst of persecution.
In this series, we will examine a theology of hope that is so relevant and needed today through the writings of Paul to the church in Rome. Join us so we can explore these realities in our lives:
Hope is the vision that guides us, informed by our past, amidst our present, and for a purposeful future. So Don’t Give Up!
Week One: Embracing Hopelessness of the Past
Week Two: An Active Hope
Romans 8:18-25
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Week Three: Don't Give Up
Ronald Southall
First Street and Mount Zion, New Orleans, LA
Brady Whitton
First United Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, LA
Greatest Things First
What is the greatest thing a person can do with their life? Be successful? Have lots of friends? Live a life of service? Jesus says the greatest and first commandment is to "love God with all your heart, soul and mind.”
What Jesus is saying is that the greatest thing we can do is love God. Why is it the greatest thing? How do we do it? And what difference will it make in my crazy upside-down life and our crazy upside down world?
Matthew 22:34-46
There's Nothing Like Knowing Jesus
Paul says he’s given up everything for Jesus, and he means it. He’s literally writing the words while imprisoned for preaching the gospel. But Paul says he would do it all again in a second because of the “surpassing value of knowing Christ.” Paul tells us knowing Jesus is better than anything and everything else. That’s an amazing claim. Do you know and love Jesus like that? Would you like too?
Philippians 3:4b-14
Think Like Jesus, Live for Others
Let’s be honest. Our natural tendency is to think of ourselves first — our needs, our wants, etc. Paul tells us Jesus did the opposite. Jesus came not to be served, but to serve. Paul then tells us we are called to do the same. This Sunday, during worship, we will explore the Christian virtue of humility and talk about some ways we can live Paul’s instruction, "Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.”
