Sermons by Rebecca Messman
Grounded – Grounded in Wonder: Creation, Communion, and the Glory of God
About this sermon series Psalm 8 O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!You have set your glory above the heavens.Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;what are humans that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?Yet you have made…
The Art of Being Together: The Unauthorized Exorcist
About this sermon series Mark 9:38-50 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of…
The Art of Being Together: Redefining Greatness
About this sermon series Mark 9:30-37 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. Then they came to Capernaum, and when…
The Art of Being Together: Be Opened
About this sermon series Mark 7:24-37From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.…
Doers of the Word
James 1:17-27 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow…
Run the Race: The Full Armor of God
About this sermon series Ephesians 6:10-20 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor…
Run the Race: Focus on Your Fuel
About this sermon series John 6:24-35 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate your fill of…
Read It Again: Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael
About this sermon series Genesis 21:1-21 The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which Godhad spoken to him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him. AndAbraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commandedhim. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born…
Read It Again: Daniel and the Lion’s Den
About this sermon series We are going to read it again, God, this story of yours, of ours. We pray that you’ll speak anew, afresh, aloud, so that that which we once knew will be illumined by what you’re saying today. You are here. We are listening. Amen. Daniel 6:1-28 6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom, 2 and over them three administrators, one of whom was Daniel; to these the satraps gave…
Read It Again: Moses and the Burning Bush
About this sermon series Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and…
Read It Again: Moses in the bulrushes
About the sermon series Exodus 2:1-10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the…
The Gospel According to Pixar: On Being a Family
About the sermon series John 11:28-35 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw Mary get up quickly…