OPC Sermon Arkive - Orange Presbyterian Church

Making Love Real - 4th Sunday of Advent

12/22/2024

Our determination to show God’s love by working for the good of others can have a profound, life-changing effect.

That very real love, as opposed to just having good intentions, can change the world and the lives of all of us in it.

- Denny Burnette

Scripture Readings:
Micah 5:2-5a
Luke 1:39-56

It's Amazing!

4/14/2024

We are all brothers and sisters, inextricably bound by the amazing grace of God.

When we love, we all win.
When we hate, we all lose.

- Denny Burnette

Scripture Readings:
1 John 2:29-3:3
Luke 24:36-49

Secret Discipleship

3/10/2024

You can't be a secret disciple of Christ.
Either secrecy will destroy the discipleship,
or the discipleship -- if it's real and alive -- will destroy the secrecy.

Don't be afraid of what the world will think.
Live your faith for all to see.

- George Fletcher

Scripture Readings:
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
Luke 23:50-53, John 19:38-42

Christ THE King

12/31/2023

The Gospel of Jesus Christ has to do with a movement, not just with individual salvation. We need to be a different kind of church.

God has called us to bring heaven to earth. And that means wherever we can to break the systems that crush, beat down, demean, and dehumanize the weakest.
- Rick Clore

Scripture Reading:
Luke 2:1-14

Fourth Sunday of Advent - Kids' Stuff

12/24/2023

Christmas is kids' stuff because it's about the solitary life of one child -- the Holy Child, Jesus. Who turned the world upside down and inside out through the love of God.

Christmas is kids' stuff because it's about how God is transforming you and me through his love into his own merciful children.

- Denny Burnette

Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 9:2-7
Luke 2:1-20

Lost and Found

4/23/2023

God is still finding you and me today when we feel most lost ourselves. There's no limit, of course, to the ways God can find us.
Waking or sleeping,
laughing or crying,
moving or just sitting still,
we keep meeting God when we expect him least.
But need him most.

- Denny Burnette

Scripture Readings:
Acts 2: 14-21; 37-42
Luke 24:13-35

A Clean Slate

1/1/2023

Jesus saves us from our sins.
He saves us.
He rescues us from the mistakes of our past.

And God delivers us from the prison of the past to the promise of this brand-new year.

And in doing so, God offers us a clean slate
-- a fresh start.
- Denny Burnette

Scripture Readings:
Exodus 34:1-9
Luke 2:15-21

Wars and Peace - Second Sunday of Advent

12/4/2022

Stay, friends, brothers, and sisters, in this moment. Remember what God has done.

Keep focused on the hope we have in His Kingdom. For the grass withers, the flower fades, and the leaves are blown from the yard and back.

But God's Word, and God's Kingdom endures forever.
- Andy Meyers

Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 65:17-25
Luke 21:5-19

Doing the Work

11/20/2022

Church work is a week long task. it is not simply done on a Sunday morning when we have finished sitting in church. It is more than the once-monthly volunteering.

It is a week-long event. And it happens every week.
It is reading our Bibles.
It is serving others wholeheartedly.
It is praying to and talking with God.

The work is hard. It is uncomfortable.

But we are called to inspire people by the way we live.

- Brittney Daniel

Scripture Readings:
2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13
Luke 23:33-43

Signs and Persecutions!

11/13/2022

Following Jesus is not an insurance policy.
Following Jesus does not insulate us from danger, or suffering, or illness, or even death.
But God is with us in the midst of the suffering.
God is present with us always.
- Pat Nabors

Scripture Readings:
Malachai 4:1-2b
Luke 21:5-19

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