Sermons

Matt 16:13-20    Pastor Bill Mosley   8-23-20 One Sunday night years ago I was completely voiceless.  I was sick.  I self-medicated until Thursday.  I surrendered and went to see the doctor.  He made me mad. He told me I was wrong and then what I had to do to get...

Matthew 15:21-28 Pastor Bill Mosley    8-16-2020 An old Andy Griffith episode has a young family, renting a house from an elderly, rich landlord.  The family falls behind in their rent, the man wants them evicted, comes to Andy because it's the Sheriff's job to do...

by Pastor Bill Mosley Matthew 14:22-33      Aug 9, 2020      St Peter, Doss/Christ Lutheran, Cherry Spring   Last night and again this week Mars appears big and bright next to the moon.  On March 21, 2017 President Donald Trump signed a law mandating NASA to send...

Matthew 14:13-21 Doss/Cherry Spring  8-2-2020 Pastor Bill Mosley In mid July of 1999, I was in a car wreck outside Lafayette, Louisiana that took my camping trailer away. The wreck backed up traffic on I 10 for two & a half hours.  People there had different...

Romans 8:26-39 7-26-2020          Doss/Cherry Spring Rev. Bill Mosley A very superstitious bus driver was constantly trying to avoid anything that was supposed to bring bad luck, and he tried everything to get good luck.  His pockets were full of good luck charms, and...

Pentecost 3 Sermon June 21, 2020 Cycle A Imagine, if you can, being “in the shoes” of Peter, James, or John. Recall that one day, as they worked on the shores of Galilee “mending their nets”, Jesus walked by and said, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of people!”...

Pentecost 2 Sermon June 14, 2020 Cycle A The term “gospel” is Old English for the Greek word “εὐαγγελιον”(euaggelion) – “goodannouncement” or “good news”. But what’s that about? I mean, we’ve all heard “good news”of one kind or another, but we don’t call it “gospel”....

Pentecost 2 Sermon June 7, 2020 Cycle A The natural world has always fascinated me, something I’ve studied for at least 50 years. I was 12 when I got my first telescope, aimed it at the sky, and “discovered” Jupiter. Obviously, I’m not the first to observe our solar...

Pentecost Sermon May 31, 2020 Cycle A Many people today reject the concept of “original sin”, not the sin of Adam and Eve so much as the idea of a fallen humanity – that all human beings are guilty of sin. It’s “passé”, part of a bygone age of ignorance and...

May 24_2020 Cycle A We all know the story, how “in the beginning God created” human beings, placed them in paradise, and set out to establish a lasting relationship with them. Adam and Eve were given everything anyone might want: life, companionship, safety, food in...

Easter 6 – May 17, 2020 Cycle AIt is a strange “fate” that brought Paul – who had looked on with “approval” as Stephen wasstoned to death, persecuted Christians for their faith, and headed for to Damascus with “arrestwarrants” in search of Christians – strange indeed...