Rev. Doug Floyd Christmas Sermon 2022Rev. Doug FloydJohn 1:1-18 We gather today to celebrate the wondrous birth of Jesus. With all our Christmas music, Christmas parties, and Christmas movies, it might be easy to overlook the true Christmas miracle: the birth of Jesus. In his birth, we behold the true and final King of Israel. At the same time, we behold the…
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
Sermons on John
Pentecost 2022Rev. Doug FloydActs 2:1-21, Psalm 104.25-32, 1 Corinthians 12:4-13, John 14:8-17 And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams……
Easter 7C 2022Sunday After AscensionRev. Doug FloydActs 16:16-34, Psalm 47, Revelation 22:10-21, John 17:20-26 In John 17 Jesus prays for His disciples. Though this story is set before the cross and resurrection, we are reading it on the Sunday after the Ascension. This day is usually focused on commissioning stories. Just as Matthew and Luke…
Easter 3C, 2022 – Dawn’s the ground where love has comeRev. Doug FloydActs 9:1-19, Psalm 33, Revelation 5:1–14, John 21:1-14 At the front of our bulletin, I put a poem by the Welsh writer Bobi Jones. I’m going to start out reading it if you want to follow along in your bulletin or just listen.…
Rev. Doug FloydDaniel 7:9-14, Psalm 93, Revelation 1:1-8, John 18:33-37 This is Christ the King Sunday. I’m just going to meditate on our text, right out of Revelation. And it’s quite a delightful book. And just this passage verses 1:8 is more than we could talk about right now. But John writes this, it’s not…
Rev. Doug Floyd Easter 6BActs 11:19-30, Psalm 33, 1 John 4:7-21, John15:9-17 In John 13 through 17, Jesus gathers the disciples to Himself for a final meal before His ascent to the cross. Over the course of the evening, Jesus speaks about the communion of love he shares with the Father. He also emphasizes the…
Rev. Doug Floyd Christ Calls Us to the FutureEaster 5 2021Acts 8:26–40, Psalm 66, 1 John 3:11-24, John 14:15-21 In the German film, The Wall, a women goes to visit a cabin for the weekend but ends up being stuck behind some kind of invisible barrier that encloses the cabin, the surrounding farm, and the forest beyond. Suddenly she must adapt to a…
Chase Whitmire Lent 5B 2021Jeremiah 31:31–34, Psalm 51, Hebrews 4:14–5:10, John 12:20-36 When was the last time, you found yourself at a fork in the road? There was a decision to be made. You knew that whatever choice you made, your life would never be the same. It could have been making a decision about college, or a job, or getting married,…
Rev. Doug Floyd Lent 42 Chronicles 36:14–23, Psalm 122, Ephesians 2:4-10, John 6:1-15 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem! Our Psalm for today exhorts the listener to pray for the city’s peace: to pray that Jerusalem, the city of peace, will actually be a city of peace. Jerusalem is an actual city but it is also a longing. Daniel prays toward Jerusalem…
Lent 3Rev. Doug FloydExodus 20:1–2, Psalm 19, Romans 7:12-25, John 2:13–22 Last week our local news ran a story about a seven-year-old camped out in her front yard. Every Tuesday since last October, Paisley Elliot has been sleeping in the tent in her front yard to call attention to the plight of refugees. When she…