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July 5-6

Present at the Creation

Text: “When your children ask in time to come, 'What do those stones mean to you?' then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the Israelites a memorial forever.”                                                                          (Joshua 4:6-7)

July 12-13

The Politics of Jesus

Text: “Then he looked up at his disciples and said, 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.”                           (Luke 6: 20-21)

July 19-20

To Know God and to Make a Difference

Text: “Since there will never cease to be some in need on earth, I therefore command you, 'Open your hand to the [poor and needy.”                                                  (Deuteronomy 15:11)

July 26-27

What God Wants of Us

Text: “Since there will never cease to be some in need on earth, I therefore command you, 'Open your hand to the [poor and needy.”                                                  (Deuteronomy 15:11)

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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

Rev. John Shaver preaching his last sermon at Christ Church before transferring to California.

July 5-6

Present at the Creation

Text: “When your children ask in time to come, 'What do those stones mean to you?' then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the Israelites a memorial forever.”                                                                          (Joshua 4:6-7)

July 12-13

The Politics of Jesus

Text: “Then he looked up at his disciples and said, 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.”                           (Luke 6: 20-21)

July 19-20

To Know God and to Make a Difference

Text: “Since there will never cease to be some in need on earth, I therefore command you, 'Open your hand to the [poor and needy.”                                                  (Deuteronomy 15:11)

July 26-27

What God Wants of Us

Text: “Since there will never cease to be some in need on earth, I therefore command you, 'Open your hand to the [poor and needy.”                                                  (Deuteronomy 15:11)

August 2-3

Post-High Sunday                                    

August 9-10

The Truth About Consequences

Text: “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”                                                  (John 8:32)

August 16-17

Rev. Cindy Schneider preaching

August 23-24

Rev. Cindy Schneider preaching

August 30-31

Living in the New Normal

Text: “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”       (Mark 2:22)

September 6-7

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself

Text: “Whatever 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 4:8)

September 13-14

 Where Restless Hearts Come Home

Text: “Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest ... for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”                                                  (Matthew 11:28,30)

September 20-21

 Dr. Brian Bauknight to preach

September 27-28

 Blessed to Be a Blessing

Text: “Now the Lord said to Abram, ' ...I will bless you ... and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”   (Genesis 12:1-3)

October 4-5

When God Keeps You Up at Night

Text: “(Joseph) had another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying, 'Look, I have had another dream.”   (Genesis 37:9)

October 11-12

UMW Thank Offering weekend.
Rev. Sandra Marsh-McClain of First UMC in Bethel Park to preach at all services.

October 18-19

The Gift of Giving

Text: "The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man ... From the time that (Potiphar) made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake."                      (Genesis 39:2,5)

October 25-26

Perils and Possibility

Text: "God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God."        (Genesis 45:7-8)

November 1-2

Before I Forget

Text: "But when he came to himself he said, 'I will get up and go to my father."                                        (Luke 15:17-18)

November 8-9

A Future Not Our Own

Text: "For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land."                                                   (Jeremiah 32:15)

November 15-16

When Not to Join the Church

Text: "But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner."                                   (Luke 18:13)

November 22-23

When Reality is Not Enough

Text: "Then Peter came to himself and said,'Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."                                              (Acts 12:11)

November 29-30

Rev. Cindy Schneider preaching

December 6-7

The Gift of Patience

Text: "An account of genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham... Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar."                                (Matthew 1:1,3)

December 13-14

The Gift of Failure

Text: "An account of genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham... and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab."                                              (Matthew 1:1,5)

December 20-21

The Gift of Suffering

Text: "An account of genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham... and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth."                                              (Matthew 1:1,5)

December 24

The Irrational Season

Text: "Now the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit."                                    (Matthew 1:18)

December 27-28

Rev. Cindy Schneider preaching