Sermons by Rebecca Messman

Letters from Love: A Love that Calls Us Deeper

About this sermon series Luke 5:1-11Once while Jesus was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down…

Letters from Love: Love, Paul and Chloe

About this sermon series I Corinthians 1:4-10 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind—just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you—so that you are not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen…

Breaking Bad Habits: When We Think We Know the Future

About this sermon series Luke 4:14-21 Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding region. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him.…

Breaking Bad Habits: When We Think It’s Too Late

About this sermon series John 2:1-11 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do…

How Does a Weary World Rejoice? We Allow Ourselves to Be Amazed

Luke 1:57-66 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, “No; he is to be called John.” They said to her, “None of your relatives has this name.” Then…

How Does a Weary World Rejoice? “The Joy in Connection”

Luke 1:24-45 After those days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she remained in seclusion. She said, “This is what the Lord has done for me in this time, when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.” In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house…

How Does a Weary World Rejoice? “Joy Happens to Us”

Luke 1:8-20 Once when [Zechariah] was serving as priest before God during his section’s turn of duty, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord to offer incense. Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside. Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him,…

Balm In Gilead

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 You who are my Comforter in sorrow,my heart is faint within me. Listen to the cry of my peoplefrom a land far away:“Is the Lord not in Zion?Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images,with their worthless foreign idols?” “The harvest is past,the summer has ended,and we are not saved.” Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;I mourn, and horror grips me. Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?Why then is there…

Do Not Be Alarmed

Mark 13:1-8 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher,what great stones and what great buildings!”  Then Jesus asked him, “Do you seethese great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will bethrown down.” When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple,Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,  “Tell us, when will this be,and what will be the sign that all these things…

Grounded – Holy Ground

About this sermon series Mark 12:28-34 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The…

Grounded – From the Ground Up

About this sermon series Mark 10:46-52  They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Jesus…

Grounded – Rooted and Grounded

About this sermon series Mark 10:35-45 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Appoint us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know…