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         The quote above is from my very favorite book on preaching, “Lectures on Preaching Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February 1877.”  Brooks continues, “Whatever is in the sermon must be in the preacher first; clearness, logicalness, vivacity, earnestness, sweetness and light must be personal qualities in him before they are qualities of thought and language in what he utters to his people.”   Whether you find the sermons readable or useful for your faith, thanks for checking out my preaching page. I promise our worship is more interesting and encouraging than anything you’ll read here but I’m honored all the same.                                                                                                               ~ Pastor Annette

​Don’t Tell Me Who to Love

The Hen and the Fox
​and Baby Chicks

​The Man on the Ground

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​March 5, 2017
Luke 10:25-37
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​The Trauma of Transfiguration

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​February 26, 2017
Luke 9:37-50
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​Love Enough

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​February 19, 2017
Luke 7:36-50
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​Are You the One?

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February 12, 2017
Luke 7:18-35
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​Sometimes I Forget I’m a Christian

​Anything But Neatly Organized

​When Judgment Is Good News

​And Baby Jesus Was Enough

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January 1, 2017
Luke 2:21-38
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God's Elegant Mysteries

If You Want to Call Yourselves Church

Maintaining Pentecost

Right Back at It

No Small Commotion

Dreams That Launch the Gospel

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April 24, 2016
Acts 11:1-18
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A Disciple Whose Name Was Tabitha

Conversion Is Not a Contest

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April 10, 2016
Acts 9:1-20
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For the Sake of the Name

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April 3, 2016
Acts 5:27-42
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He Rose and We Will Too

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March 27, 2016 - Easter Sunday
​Luke 24:1-12
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From the Bedrock of Creation Itself

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March 20, 2016 - Palm Sunday
Luke 19:28-44
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The Real Last Supper

There Shall Only Be One Party

We Are the Tree

God Sounds Like My Mother

Worship the Lord Your God, and Serve Only Him

Set Something Aside Every Sunday

When You Come Together As a Church

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January 24, 2016
I Corinthians 11:17-34
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Shepherd Boy to Shepherd King

No Longer Our Own

The Divine Contradiction

Becoming What You Are

A Meditation on Christ

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December 27, 2015
Ephesians 1:3-14
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This Precious, Precious Night

There Will Be a Reckoning

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December 20, 2015
​Isaiah 56:1-12
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In Days to Come

Because of All That the Lord Has Done for Us

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November 29, 2015
​Isaiah 63:7-19
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All of Us Are Refugees

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November 22, 2015
Psalm 16
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According to the Pages of Hannah

An Alternative to War

Woman, Widow, Stranger, Foe

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November 1, 2015
Ruth 1:1-18
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From Sugar to Salt and Back to Sugar

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October 25, 2015
Job 42:1-6, 10-17
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The Last Lesson of Discipleship

Wealth Is Not a Blessing

Stuff We Need and Stuff We Don't

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August 23, 2015
1 Kings 3:1-15
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Sermons Indexed 
​by Scripture Reference

Ruth
       Ruth 1:1-18
1 Samuel
​       1 Samuel 2:1-10
2 Samuel
​       2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10
​       2 Samuel 6:3-23
​       2 Samuel 7:1-14a
       2 Samuel 11:1-15
1 Kings
       1 Kings 2:1-4, 10-12
       1 Kings 3:1-15
Job
​       Job 42:1-6, 10-17

Psalms
​       Psalm 16
​       Psalm 127
​Isaiah
       Isaiah 2:1-4
​       Isaiah 56:1-12
​       Isaiah 63:7-19
Mark
​       Mark 10:17-31
​       Mark 10:32-45
Luke
       Luke 2:21-38
​​       Luke 3:1-22
​       Luke 4:1-13
       Luke 6:1-11
       Luke 7:1-17
​       Luke 7:18-35
​       Luke 7:36-50
​       Luke 9:37-50
       Luke 10:25-37
​       Luke 13:1-9
       Luke 13:1-9, 31-35
​       Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
       Luke 15:1-32
​       Luke 19:28-44
​       Luke 24:1-12
John
       John 1:1-14
​       John 12:1-11
Acts
​       Acts 5:27-42
​       Acts 9:1-20
​       Acts 9:36-43
​       Acts 11:1-18
       Acts 12:1-19
       Acts 14:1-7
​       Acts 15:1-22
​​Ephesians
       Ephesians 1:3-14
​I Corinthians
​       I Corinthians 1:1-17
       I Corinthians 1:18-31
​       I Corinthians 3
​       I Corinthians 6:12-20
​       I Corinthians 11:17-34
​       I Corinthians 16:1-14
Misplaced Sermon
A Few Preachers,
Writers & Musicians
I Depend Upon
for Preaching
(click on the name to access information about each one)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Phillips Brooks
Walter Brueggemann
Frederick Buechner
Kate Campbell
Fred Craddock
Emmylou Harris
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ann Lamott
Edward O. Wilson
John Woolman

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In All That You Do and Wherever You Turn

No Lie Lives Forever, pt 1:  The Lie

He Asked for a House and Was Given a Promise

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July 19, 2015
2 Samuel 7:1-14a
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    • Rob Drummond ~ Music Minister
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