1998–2002 Sermon Archive
2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998
January
6, 2002 |
Beyond Bethlehem | John M. Buchanan, Pastor |
January
13, 2002 |
The Light | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
January
20, 2002 |
Is There a Church Around Here? | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| January 27, 2002 | Called and Collected for Glory | Sarah Jo Sarchet,
Associate Pastor |
February
3, 2002 |
Blessed | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
February
13, 2002 Ash Wednesday |
What It's All About | Dana
Ferguson, Associate Pastor |
February
17, 2002 |
Wilderness | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
February
24, 2002 |
What Wondrous Love Is This? | John M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
3, 2002 |
Included | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
10, 2002 |
See | Carol
J. Allen, Associate Pastor |
March
17,
2002 |
No Story So Divine | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
24,
2002 |
A Beautiful Mind | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
March
31, 2002 Easter Sunday |
How Are We to Believe This? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
April
7, 2002 |
Locked Doors | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
April 14, 2002 |
Even at the Unlikeliest of Moments | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
April 21, 2002 |
A Message for Our Time | Joanna M. Adams ,
Pastor |
| May 5, 2002 | Is Our Way the Only Way? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| May 12, 2002 | Water and Salt | Joanna M. Adams,
Pastor |
| May 26, 2002 | Every Blessed Thing | Calum I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor |
| June 2, 2002 | "For the Storms Which Give Toughness to Our Spirits" | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| June 9, 2002 | How Far Are We Supposed to Follow | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| June 16, 2002 | Parenting Hope | Dana
Ferguson, Associate Pastor |
| June 23, 2002 | On Cutting the Fig Tree | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| June 30, 2002 | The Predicament of Freedom | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| July 7, 2002 | The Power of a Dream | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 14, 2002 | The Power of a Dream | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 21, 2002 | Awesome | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 28, 2002 | A Matter of Time | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| August 4, 2002 | Struggling Toward a Blessing | John
A. Cairns, Dean, Academy for Faith and Life |
August 18, 2002 |
Crumbs | Cynthia
Campbell, President, McCormick Seminary |
| August 25, 2002 | The Potter's House | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| September 8, 2002 | The Rising | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| September 15, 2002 | On Not Keeping Score | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| September 22, 2002 | The Complaint Department | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| September 29, 2002 | By What Authority, or, Who's in Charge Here? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| October 6, 2002 | The Gathering | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| October 13, 2002 | More | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| October 20, 2002 | The Needle's Eye | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| October 27, 2002 | To Make a Life and Not Just a Living | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 3, 2002 | What Will Become of Me When I Die? | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| November 10, 2002 | What Happens When the Spirit Says No? | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| November 17, 2002 | High-Risk Venture | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 24, 2002 | Doxology | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November
28, 2002 Thanksgiving Day |
The Main Thing | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| December 1, 2002 | Hope for the World | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| December 8, 2002 | Just Like the One I Used to Know | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 15, 2002 | Born to Set Thy People Free | John
M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| December 22, 2002 | Fear Not | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
| December 24,
2002 Christmas Eve |
Christmas Eve | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 29, 2002 | Setting Out | Joanna
M. Adams, Pastor |
January
7, 2001 |
Drawn In | Sarah Jo Sarchet, Associate Pastor |
January
14, 2001 |
Love Has Good Manners | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
January
21, 2001 |
Reading and Rewriting | Calum
I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor |
| January 28, 2001 | A Place for Everyone | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
February
4, 2001 |
You Are the Body | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
February
11, 2001 |
Love's Embodiment | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
February
18, 2001 |
Patterns and Rhythms | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor |
February
25, 2001 |
Experience-Listen-Follow | John M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
4, 2001 |
Your Mortality Is Showing | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
11, 2001 |
A Butterfly in the Ghetto | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
18, 2001 |
The Invitation | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
April
1, 2001 |
What Do You Have to Do to Get to Heaven? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
April
8, 2001 |
A Strange New Power | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
April
13, 2001 Good Friday |
The Importance of Survival | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate |
April 15,
2001 |
Surprised by God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| April 22, 2001 | Now What? | Sarah Jo Sarchet ,
Associate Pastor |
| April 29, 2001 | Born Again, and Again, and Again | Dana Ferguson,
Associate Pastor |
| May 6, 2001 | Called | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| May 13, 2001 | The Many Faces of God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| May 20, 2001 | A Covenant of Faithfulness | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate |
| May 27, 2001 | Memory and the Peace of God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| June 3, 2001 | Listen | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| June 10, 2001 | Holey, Wholly, Holy | Calum
I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor |
| June 17, 2001 | The Great Reversal | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| June 24, 2001 | There Goes the Neighborhood | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 1, 2001 | Free. . . to Be a Slave | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 8, 2001 | When Familiar is Not Enough | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate |
| July 15, 2001 | Doing What Needs to Be Done | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| July 22, 2001 | What's Next? | Cynthia Campbell,
President, McCormick Seminary |
| July 29, 2001 | Why Pray. . . This Way? | Fred
Holper,
Professor, McCormick Seminary |
| August 5, 2001 | Learning to Blush | Donna
Gray, Interim Associate Pastor |
August 12, 2001 |
The Meaning and Mystery of Faith | John
H. Boyle, Parish Associate |
| September 2, 2001 | Strangers | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| September 9, 2001 | Faith and Science: Is God the Ruler Yet? | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| September
14, 2001 Prayer and Remembrance |
Reflection | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| September 16, 2001 | On Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| September 23, 2001 | A Defiant Hope | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| September 30, 2001 | God's Love and the Twelve Apple Brown Bettys | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| October 7, 2001 | Connected | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate |
| October 14, 2001 | Your Center of Value | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| October 21, 2001 | A Time to Act | Dana
Ferguson, Associate Pastor |
| October 28, 2001 | Ordinary People | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 4, 2001 | The Toughest Commandment | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 11, 2001 | Take It to the Lord in Prayer | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 18, 2001 | We Gather Together | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| November 25, 2001 | The King of Love | Calum
I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor |
| December 2, 2001 | Hope for the Long Haul | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 9, 2001 | The Peace of God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 16, 2001 | Fear Not | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 23, 2001 | Family Connections | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 24,
2001 Christmas Eve |
Christmas Eve | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor |
| December 25,
2001 Christmas Day |
When Human and Holy Meet | Carol J. Allen, Associate Pastor |
| December 30, 2001 | Some Things Worth Remembering | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate |
| December 30, 2001 | The Peril and Promise Christmas Brings | John H. Boyle, Parish Associate |
| January 2, 2000 | Let the Candles Be Brought | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
January
9, 2000
|
A Gift for the Child | John Wilkinson, Associate Pastor |
January
16, 2000
|
Inescapable God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
January
23, 2000
|
Diminished Expectations | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate
|
February
6, 2000
|
Like a Child at Home | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
February
13, 2000
|
Searching | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
February
20, 2000
|
Wounded Healer | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
February
27, 2000
|
Friends | John M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
5, 2000
|
A Whole New Religion | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
March
12, 2000
|
Peace | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
March
19, 2000
|
Restored | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| March 26, 2000 | Abundance | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
April
2, 2000
|
The Gift of Grace | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
April
9, 2000
|
Rejection | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
April 16, 2000 |
The Cross | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| April 23, 2000 | Life Ahead! | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| May 14, 2000 | The Spirit of the Shepherd | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| May 21, 2000 | When We Talk About God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| May 28, 2000 | No Greater Love | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| June 4, 2000 | The Importance of Our Unity | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| June 11, 2000 | Enemy of Apathy | Calum
I. MacLeod,
Associate Pastor |
| June 18, 2000 | The Search for the Sacred | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| June 25, 2000 | What Difference Would It Make? | William
A. C. Golderer, Associate Pastor
|
| July 2, 2000 | Knowing Whom to Obey | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| July 9, 2000 | The Hallowing of Time | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| July 23, 2000 | God's Saving Face | Carol
J. Allen, Associate Pastor
|
| July 30, 2000 | The Quest for Intimacy | Sarah
Jo Sarchet, Associate Pastor
|
| August 6, 2000 | In the Land of Plenty | Dana
Ferguson, Associate
Pastor
|
August 13, 2000 |
Agenda for Living | John
H. Boyle, Parish Associate
|
| August 27, 2000 | Choices | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| September 3, 2000 | Labor of Love | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| September 10, 2000 | Holy the Rock | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| September 17, 2000 | Holy the Name | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| September 24, 2000 | Thirsting for God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 1, 2000 | The World That May Believe | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 8, 2000 | Children of the Pioneer | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| October 15, 2000 | The Life That Really Is Life | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 5, 2000 | The Art of the Possible | Calum
I. MacLeod,
Associate Pastor |
| November 12, 2000 | Where Did Alex's Hope Go? | Dana
Ferguson, Associate Pastor
|
| December 3, 2000 | Steadfast | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 10, 2000 | Reversal of Fortune | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 17, 2000 | Glory | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 24,
2000 Christmas Eve |
Hospitality | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December
25, 2000 Christmas Day |
Eclipsed by God | Carol
J. Allen, Associate Pastor
|
| December 31, 2000 | The Endless Journey Starts | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| January 3, 1999 | Millennial Mania, Y2K, and St. Paul | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
January
10, 1999
|
Set Up by the Spirit | Sarah Jo Sarchet, Associate Pastor |
January
17, 1999
|
A Wise Heart Knows What Time It Is | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
January
24, 1999
|
Blessed Are the Doubters | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| January 31, 1999 | Just Do It | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
February
7, 1999
|
More Than Morality | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
February
14, 1999
|
Salt. . . Light | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
February
21, 1999
|
To Heal the Sin-Sick Soul | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
February
28, 1999
|
Love in Prime Time | John M. Buchanan, Pastor |
March
7, 1999
|
Love Story | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
March
14, 1999
|
The Foolishness of It All | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
March 21, 1999 |
Resurrection Prelude | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| March 28, 1999 | The Triumph of the Meek | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
April
4, 1999
|
Do Not Be Afraid | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
April
11, 1999
|
Therefore | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
April 18, 1999 |
Remember | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| April 25, 1999 | Give Me That Old Time Religion | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| May 2, 1999 | No Private Presents | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| May 9, 1999 | Orphans No More | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| May 16, 1999 | Looking or Leaping | John
A. Cairns, Interim Executive Associate
|
| May 23, 1999 | Past, Present, and Future | Dana
Ferguson,
Associate Pastor
|
| May 30, 1999 | The Divine Question and the Human Question | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| June 13, 1999 | Not a Sparrow Falls | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| June 20, 1999 | A Father's Needs and a Father's Wants | William
A. C. Golderer, Associate Pastor
|
| June 27, 1999 | The Lesson of Mount Moriah | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| July 4, 1999 | Sweet Freedom's Song | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| July 11, 1999 | The Blessing of Our Hearts | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| July 18, 1999 | God and the Millennium | Carol
J. Allen, Associate Pastor
|
| July 25, 1999 | Finish, Then, Thy New Creation | Cynthia
Campbell, President, McCormick Seminary
|
| August 1, 1999 | More Than Enough | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
August 15, 1999 |
Looks (and Locks!) Can Be Deceiving | Deborah
J. Kapp, Associate Pastor
|
| August 22, 1999 | What Do You Say That I Am? | Sarah
Jo Sarchet, Associate Pastor
|
| September 5, 1999 | Two or Three | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| September 12, 1999 | Does God Exist? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| September 19, 1999 | Can I Trust God and Science? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| September 26, 1999 | Does God Care? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 3, 1999 | The Cup of Blessing | John
H. Boyle, Parish Associate
|
| October 3, 1999 | The Genuine Article | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
October 10, 1999 |
The Spendthriftiness of Love | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 17, 1999 | The Treasures of Fourth Church | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| October 24, 1999 | Does God Provide? | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| October 31, 1999 | Why I'm Still a Presbyterian | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| November 7, 1999 | Questions People Ask about God | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 14, 1999 | Too Much Grace? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 21, 1999 | A Song of Thanksgiving | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| November 28, 1999 | A View from the Mountain | John M. Buchanan,
Pastor |
| December 5, 1999 | Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 12, 1999 | Mary's Yes | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 19, 1999 | For the Love of Christmas | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 24,
1999 Christmas Eve |
Christmas Eve | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December
26, 1999 |
What Child Is This: Reflections on the Gift of Christmas | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| August 23, 1998 | Rare Beasts and Unique Adventures | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|
| August 30, 1998 | By Living Water Healed | John Wilkinson,
Associate Pastor |
| September 13, 1998 | Painful Truth, Necessary Forgiveness | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| September 20, 1998 | A Quiet and Peaceable Life. . . In These Times? | Martin
Marty and Micah Marty
|
| September 27, 1998 | Keeping Alive the Rumor | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 4, 1998 | Becoming the Body | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
October 11, 1998 |
Any Excellence? | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 18, 1998 | Earn It | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| October 25, 1998 | The Protest in Protestantism | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 1, 1998 | If I Should Die Before I Wake | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 15, 1998 | In the End, Our Beginning | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 22, 1998 | Do Not Worry | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| November 29, 1998 | Waiting, Impatiently | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 6, 1998 | How Silently, How Silently | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 13, 1998 | The Kingdom of Christmas | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December 20, 1998 | The Search for the Perfect Gift | John
M. Buchanan, Pastor
|
| December
27, 1998 |
What Child Is This | John
Wilkinson, Associate Pastor
|