Making Waves

Feel free to check out the video version of this sermon here .             Welcome back to yet another week here on Making Waves! We are so glad to have you back with us for the third part in this new series we are taking on. The title of this series is Overcoming Impossible and we are focusing on the Sermon on the Mount from the gospel of Matthew. This passage has been occasionally refereed to as an impossible list of demands from Christ. And, if we didn’t know better, we might be tempted to agree with them after the last two weeks of study we have had. God has called us to a life full of humility and putting other first. We learned that Jesus came to complete the laws of Moses and make them even harder to live up to. This week we are going to take on the Lord’s Prayer. It’s a prayer that all of us over at Pelham UMC have memorized and I’m sure that most of you out there could say the same. It’s an incredibly important prayer. But… it’s easy to simplify it and get it confuse

Check out the live recording of this sermon here ! Good morning!   It’s wonderful to see that you came back after last week’s hard-hitter of a sermon. I knew when tackling the Sermon on the Mount that this would certainly not be easy. You could say it would seem impossible. ;D <-winky face Anyway, last week we looked at the first part of the Sermon on the Mount, as recounted in Matthew’s gospel. We looked at how Jesus is calling us to do the impossible. In the Beatitudes, Jesus elaborated on the importance of humility. When we discussed this, we thought it seemed impossible, but let me go ahead and tell you, compared to this week’s lesson, humility is the easy part. Before we get too deep into that, let’s dive into the Word. We have a long one this week, and it may benefit you to go back and read Exodus 20:1-17, as well.             The Law and the Prophets 17  “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.

Click here to watch the video version of this sermon! Welcome back to another blog, Wave-Makers! I’m incredibly glad that you are able to join with us in this series. Before we get started, I wanted to begin this one with a little Labor Day humor, considering that the holiday is this week. It was the week before Labor Day, and a poor country farmer Leroy decided to use his bonus check on the lottery. It just so happened to be his lucky day and Leroy won $480,000.  As a treat he decided to take his wife and their four children to see the Labor Day parade in New York. They booked into the Sheraton International at the corner of Park Circle and Central Park North.  Having never been further than their local town, Benton, Arkansas they were bowled over by glitz and excitement of the "Big Apple". Leroy and his son Clem were especially mesmerized by this shiny box with silver walls inside the hotel. They had never before met with doors that could move apart, and t