Tis a Gift

One of the membership vows of the United Methodist church is to share our gifts. This sermon addresses the difficult topic of finances head on during a difficult economic time.

What is really ours? What has God given us? How do we honor God with all that he has given us?

If you missed the service and would still like to receive your $2 bill, just ask... it will be given.

As always I invite feed back and conversation.

Blessings in Christ, CF

No Excuse Sunday's

Did you know that keeping the Sabbath day holy is in the same list as "Thou shall not Murder?" Yep the fourth command is keep the Sabbath holy. Yet how easy we forget, and how often we make up excuses for why have to miss worship on any given week.

The sad truth is that none of them are valid. In fact I don't think anyone could come up with an excuse for murder either... Hmmm. Well self defense, but I don't think entering the church on Sunday morning is considered breaking and entering.

This sermon is a fun yet serious way to look at our commitment to God through our worship attendance. I hope you will have fun listening to it and laughing. Furthermore I hope it will provoke you to be more regular in your worship attendance.

Intimate Conversations

In this sermon we have the final sermon in the spiritual discipline series. Prayer is something we all know is important, but in all honesty most people just don't feel comfortable praying. It is like navigating a submarine up the Mississippi River, virtually impossible because we have no training. David was a man after God's own heart, and we can learn a lot about how to pray by witnessing the intimacy of David's prayers.

I hope this sermon will help you increase your the health and vitality of your relationship with God. Blessings in Christ, Pastor Ferguson

Think on these things

This is the third in the series of spiritual discipline sermons. Study is the focus, and four keys are highlighted from Richard Fosters - Celebration of Discipline: Repetition, Concentration, Comprehension, and Reflection.
The quality of this recording is very poor because it was not connected to the source. I am sorry, I edited it as much as I could. I even debated going back and rerecording, but in all honest, God had me off of the script more than on it this week. So if you are really interested, you can listen to one sermon and read a second.
I guess this is a good lesson about how much we look act and sound like Christians (even with a good editing, or outward facade) when we are not connected to the source.

Dependency Issues

This is a challenging sermon, one that I bet you have never heard before. The topic of fasting is something that is absent in our American culture and yet scripture and the history of the church lead us to understand that there is great value in this discipline. I challenge you to listen with open ears, hearts, and minds.

I invite you to share your thoughts and comments.

Ssshhh!

In this message, the focus is very practical. We are beginning a series of sermons that focus on personal Spiritual Disciplines; meditation, fasting, study, and prayer. This week the discussion is on meditation.

The practice of Christian meditation has fallen on hard times as our society has become so busy, literally hectic. Moments of silence are all but absent in our lives. How can we honestly expect to hear God? Lets try the practice of meditation for a week and see what God will share with us.

Blessings in Christ, Pastor Ferguson.

I Have Decided to Follow Jesus

This message looks at salvation from the perspective of the unnamed soldier. What did he witness that caused him to seek salvation in Jesus Christ? Evangelism is not comfortable for most of us, but Paul and Silas teach us a form of evangelism in this passage that is simply letting Christ shine. The soldier then risked his life and reputation to share his new faith with his family. Will we be so bold?

Blessings, and I hope this opens up the difficult dialogue of Evangelism as uncomfortable but mandatory. Pastor CF