“Rejoicing in God’s Salvation” | I Samuel 1:1:4—20, I Samuel 2:1-10 | Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | November 14, 2021 | By Paul C. Sizemore | Semi-continuous Series Hannah is certainly numbered among many of our favorite women in the Holy Bible. Although the Hebrew scriptures are not “overflowing” with insight into her character; her…
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Don’t Forget the Bread | John 6:35-51, Proper 14-B, August 8, 2021 | by Paul C. Sizemore | A well-known Christian author Max Lucado tells of a time when his wife Denalyn phoned him ONE AFTERNOON, shortly before the end of his workday. She wanted him to stop by a local supermarket to purchase and…
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4th Sunday after Pentecost | WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? | by Pastor Paul C. Sizemore | Based on King James Version (1613) 35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took…
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Acts 10:34-48 | Easter 6-B May 9, 2021 | by Paul C. Sizemore | One of the questions people often ask is why did God choose the Jewish people to be his very own special people; especially when there were so many other different “people groups” (or ethnicities) alive in this world at that time,…
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First Sunday in Lent. February 21, 2021 | Genesis 22:1-18 | by Paul C. Sizemore | A man was walking, rather casually, along a mountain road one day! Not really paying that much attention to where he was going, he accidently slipped and immediately found himself, hanging on for dear life, to a branch that…
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Sermon for November 8, 2020, Proper 27-A | by Paul C Sizemore | “ONE MUST BE PREPARED, EVEN AS THE WAY HAS ALREADY BEEN PREPARED FOR US!” The parable of the wise and foolish maidens is found only in the Gospel of St. Matthew. And this parable is presented to Matthew’s readers as the third…
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A Sermon for Sunday, July 26, 2020, Proper 13 | Gospel Lesson: Matthew 14:13-21, “Feeding of the Five Thousand” | Pastor Paul C. Sizemore | Matthew 14:13-21 There are dinner parties and again there are dinner parties. The fourteenth chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel opens with a classic presentation to us of a dinner party, that was to be…
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Ascension Sunday | May 24, 2020 | Acts 1:1-11 | by Pastor Paul C Sizemore | (Most of the information that follows below, was first published in the May 2010 issue of THE LUTHERAN WITNESS, St Louis, Missouri, USA; The Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver). My friends, how important is the annual celebration of our…
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First Sunday in Lent | Sermon on Matthew 4:1-11, by Paul C. Sizemore | Many Christians expect to sing “A Mighty Fortress,” on the last Sunday of October, if they are remembering the Protestant Reformation. Why? Because it was a bold move on Father Martin’s part to nail his 95 Theses on the door of…
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