Sermons by John Hall

Sermons by Sue Latourette and Guests

In The Last Days - Pentecost Sunday, May 23, 2010

Jesus Himself Came Near and Went With Them - Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010

He Has Gone Out of His Mind - March 14, 2010

Free Lunch - Are You Hungry? - March 7, 2010

The Welfare of the City - January 31, 2010

Jesus For Each Other - January 3, 2010

God Breaks In - December 6, 2009

Middletown's Early Settlers - November 22, 2009

Religion of the Heart - November 15, 2009

Why Be Baptized? - August 16, 2009

Be Angry, But Do Not Sin - August 9, 2009

Even the Wind and the Sea Obey Him? - June 21, 2009

What is Your True Vine? - May 10, 2009

A Table in the Presence of My Enemies - May 3, 2009

He Is Going Ahead of You...There You Will See Him - Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009

Serpents in the Wilderness - March 22, 2009

Improving the Affliction - March 8, 2009

How Can We Speak of God? - March 1, 2009

Seeing Visions - February 22, 2009

Birds, Bees, and the Bible - What About Transgender Persons? - February 15, 2009

When the Wine Gave Out - January 4, 2009

To Those Who Have, More Will Be Given - November 16, 2008

A City Upon a Hill - November 2, 2008

Anxiety - What Is It Good For? - October 12, 2008

Peter the Rock, Peter the Stumbling Block - September 14, 2008

Guilt - What Is It Good For? - June 1, 2008

On "Knowing" the Only True God - May 4, 2008

Can We Move Beyond Tribalism? - April 27, 2008

By Grace, We Are What We Are - Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008

The Gifts That Flow to Christ - January 6, 2008

He Will Save His People From Their Sins - December 23, 2007

Why Do We Need Each Other? - November 4, 2007

Why Do We Need Jesus? - October 17, 2007

What Do We Mean By God? - October 14, 2007

Many Ways, Many Destinations - September 23, 2007

The Four Angels of the Apocolypse - April 29, 2007

Terror and Amazement Seized Them - April 8, 2007

Dealing With Death - March 4, 2007

Dealing With Death - Congregation's Response

Temptation - February 25, 2007

Problems With Our Bodies - January 7, 2007

Look at the Birds - December 17, 2006

Ruler of the Kings of the Earth - November 26, 2006

How Far We Have Come - November 5, 2006

Your Faith Has Made You Whole - October 29, 2006

Hold Fast to What is Good - October 15, 2006

The Challenge of Job - October 8, 2006

Abraham Part IV: The Need to Sacrifice - August 27, 2006

 

Abraham Part III: The Need for Children - August 20, 2006

 

Abraham Part II: Covenant and Tribalism - August 13, 2006

 

Abraham Part I: Go From Your Country - August 6, 2006

Achievement or Gift - March 26, 2006

Get Behind Me Satan - March 12, 2006

The Christians and the Pagans - December 24, 2005

She Was Much Perplexed - December 18, 2005

Intelligent Creation - December 4, 2005

Search and You Will Find - November 13, 2005


What Happened to That City Upon a Hill?- November 6, 2005


The Creatures That We Are- October 23, 2005


Rejoice in the Lord, Always?- October 9, 2005


Starved for Attention, Found in Christ- October 2, 2005


By What Authority- September 25, 2005


The Wound and the Blessing - June 19, 2005


Muddy Water - June 5, 2005


Spirit and Power - May 15, Pentecost Sunday, 2005

 

Who Will Roll Away the Stone? - March 27, Easter Sunday, 2005

 

Woman at the Well - February 27, 2005

 

A Change of Mind and Energy - January 9, 2005

 

The Unforeseen Will Happen - Christmas Eve, 2004

 

Already and Not Yet - December 12, 2004

 

Give Us A King - December 5, 2004

 

Today You Will Be With Me In Paradise - November 21, 2004

 

A Chance of a Lifetime - November 14, 2004

 

The Heart and the Reformation - October 31, 2004, Reformation Sunday

 

Animals In Our Lives - October 3, 2004

 

Why Do The Terrorists Hate Us? - September 26, 2004

 

On Choosing the Right Seat - August 29, 2004

 

Three Americas - August 22, 2004

 

Search for the Holy Grail - August 15, 2004

 

Where Is Heaven?  How Do We Get There? - June 6, 2004

 

Is This Vision from God? - May 31, 2004

 

How Do Beliefs Matter? - May 2, 2004

 

Where You Do Not Wish To Go - April 25, 2004

 

Seeking the Living Among the Dead - April 11, 2004

 

You Can Make Me Clean - March 31, 2004

 

What Binds Us Together? - March 7, 2004

 

Why Do We Pray? - February 1, 2004

 

Faith As A Way of Life - January 25, 2004

 

Hope for What Is Unseen: How Slavery Came to be Abolished in the British Empire - January 18, 2004

 

Honesty and Poetry - December 24, 2003

 

Everything Needed Has Been Given - November 16, 2003

 

If Your Eye Causes You To Stumble - September 21, 2003

 

Those Who Eat My Flesh...Have Eternal Life - August 17, 2003

 

The Food That Endures - August 10, 2003

 

The Food That Perishes - August 3, 2003

 

Utterly Confused Christians - July 13, 2003

 

Don't You Care That We Are Perishing? - June 22, 2003

 

The Mystery (and Trials) of Being a Woman (and a Mother) - May 11, 2003

 

In Their Joy They Were Disbelieving - May 4, 2003

 

Why Are You Weeping - April 20, 2003

 

Blessed Are Those Who Hear It and Believe - March 30, 2003

 

Strange Logic - March 16, 2003

 

Believing Changes Our Seeing - March 2, 2003

 

If You Choose, You Can Make Me Clean - February 16, 2003

 

Heaven and Earth Will Pass Away - December 15, 2002

 

The Puritan in All of Us - October 27, 2002
 

God & Caesar: Repentance & Forgiveness in Politics - October 20, 2002
 

God Had Other Plans - October 6, 2002

Sandra's Lunch - September 22, 2002

Why Forgive? - September 15, 2002

The "Brain in a Vat" Option - September 1, 2002

Their Eyes Were Opened - August 25, 2002

We Versus Them - August 18, 2002

Lambs of God - August 4, 2002

Turn the Other Cheek - July 14, 2002

Lord, There Is A Stench - March 17, 2002

Masks, Lady Wisdom, and the Living Christ, Part 2 - March 3, 2002

Masks, Lady Wisdom, and the Living Christ - February 24, 2002

On Temptation - February 17, 2002

Envy - January 27, 2002

Let It Be … To Fulfill All Righteousness - January 13, 2002

Humility and compassion in the War of Ideas - January 6, 2002

Christian Living and Christian Faith - May 30, 2010
by Karl E. Scheibe

What I Learned From My Mother - group sermon on Mother's Day, May 9, 2010
by the congregation

Eyes on the Road - November 29, 2009
by Rev. Cocomo Rock

Generosity is Worship - November 1, 2009

What Is Your True Vine? - Sept 13, 2009
by the congregation

Maundy Thursday Sermon - April 9, 2009

Setting the Record Straight - February 8, 2009

When Do I Feel God's Presence? - Sept 7, 2008
by the congregation

 

Are You Talking to Me? - June 15, 2008

Today You Will Be With Me In Paradise - Good Friday, March 21, 2008
by Carolyn Fink

It Is Finished - Good Friday, March 21, 2008
by Bill Bynum

My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
- Good Friday, March 21, 2008
by Ginny Houghtaling

Though I Was Blind, Now I See - March 16, 2008
by various Members of First Church

 

Living Between "Already" and "Not Yet" - Christmas Eve, 2007

 

If I Am a Christian, How Can I Be a Racist? - December 9, 2007

by Kc Nelson-Oliveria

 

People of God's Kingdom - November 25, 2007

Holy Spirit: Can You Feel It? - October 28, 2007

 

Mind the Gap - September 30, 2007

 

Good Manners? - September 2, 2007

 

Hidden Heroes: Women in Moses' Life - June 17, 2007

 

Divided by Language, United by Faith - May 27, 2007

 

How is Peace to Come? - May 20, 2007

 

Second Chance - April 22, 2007

They Hoped for Failure - April 15, 2007

So Close, Yet So Far - January 21, 2007

God On Call? - October 22, 2006

Guides or Impediments? - October 1, 2006

No Greater Love - September 24, 2006

by Rev. Mark S. Burrow, PhD

Food in Our Lives - September 10, 2006

by Members of the Congregation

 

Now We Are Fishing for What? - June 25, 2006

A Change of Heart- April 2, 2006


Sermon- March 5, 2006
Special Sermon by John Shaw


Seeing Through a Mirror Dimly: Our Images of God- February 26, 2006


Keeping the Faith- February 19, 2006
Special Sermon by Karl Scheibe


Do Not Keep Silent- February 5, 2006


Growing Up in the Church- January 22, 2006
Special Sermon by Bill Grady


Faith + Family = Values? - October 30, 2005


Needs of a Nomad- October 16, 2005


Making all things new- September 18, 2005

Elemental Incarnation - January 11, 2004
Preached by Luke Higgins

I Was Drafted - December 14, 2003
Preached by Richard Engelhardt

A Gift Opens Doors; It Gives Access to the Great - October 26, 2003
Preached by Howard Thody

 

A Meditation on Our Community of Faith: Our Treasures and Our Hearts
Preached by Virginia Houghtaling