FCC Podcasts: March 25, 2007
March 25, 2007
Sermon: March 25, 2007
March 25, 2007
OFFERING MEDITATION:(9 a.m. & 11 a.m. – Sean Harry) If you’re a visitor this morning, you’re probably aware that there is an undercurrent of some things that are going on here in the congregation that we’re sort of not talking about because we’re trying to muddle through service because our time here in worship this morning is to be focused on God and not our own problems, our anger, our frustration, our sorrows, but rather on God. I was a pastor for 20 years, and one of the things that I learned is that in the midst of sorrow, in the midst of deep depression, one of the best things that people can do is to do something that is familiar. So I visited John the Tuesday after his wife had died and he was out mowing the lawn. I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I’m mowing the lawn because it’s Tuesday.” “But, John, your wife died yesterday.” He said, “I know. I need to do something familiar.” So it’s important for us also as we sort of muddle through worship today not speaking about those things that cause us great pain. It’s important for us to do something familiar. So I would ask you all to reach into your purse or into your back pocket, go ahead, do it, right now; find the largest denomination of bill you have there, and we’re going to do something familiar today. As difficult as it may be for us, we’re going to receive an offering, and as you give your offering this morning, I ask that you do so trying to worship God in whatever space you are in. Will the deacons please receive this morning’s offering.
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FCC Podcasts: March 18, 2007
March 18, 2007
Sermon: March 18, 2007
March 18, 2007
OFFERING MEDITATION:(9 a.m. – Dr. F. Wayne Bryant) Last Sunday, I forgot my offering envelope. And you have to understand that for me, the act of giving is almost equal to communion when I worship. I don’t pay my church pledge by credit card, I don’t mail it in once a month, we place it in the offering tray on Sunday morning, and I had forgotten my checkbook, or I misplaced it. I even apologized to the deacon as she came by me with the tray. I said, “I don’t have my checkbook.” She looked at me rather strangely, but that’s the way it was. Well, I found my checkbook…last Sunday’s, too. As the deacons wait upon us, may we share in an act of worship as we give our tithes and offerings.
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FCC Podcasts: March 11, 2007
March 11, 2007
Sermon: March 11, 2007
March 11, 2007
OFFERING MEDITATION:(9 a.m. & 11 a.m. – Trudy Bradley) When I was thinking about sharing an offering thought with you today, I was thinking about what our monthly giving is, which is for the church Helping Hand. Of course, when I think of church, I think of family. I was a little girl in this congregation when my grandparents and parents and all came to church. I just got done writing a little thought about my grandfather, Grandpa Scott, which some of you will remember, George, and how he and I had a special deal. I had an ice-cream cough with him. I’m sure at some point in my life I was being baby-sat and had a sore throat and it came up in the conversation that ice cream is good for sore throats, so Grandpa took me down to the local ice cream store and we had some ice cream. Well, it got to be a common thing for me to go over there and when I wanted ice cream, I had a cough, and Grandpa would always say, “Oh, do you need some ice cream?” I’d cough some more and say yes. Well, I kind of think about Helping Hand and First Christian Church as somewhat like that ice-cream cough. Sometimes we need just a little extra as individuals and this is our family and that’s what the Helping Hand money is used for, our family. So, if you have an ice-cream cough and don’t have a Grandpa Scott, you do have a First Christian Church.
FCC Podcasts: March 4, 2007
March 4, 2007
