August 28, 2011

"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
W. Gregory Pope, preaching

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Series: The Lord’s Prayer

Exodus 3:1-15; Isaiah 1:10-18; John 17:25-26

HALLOWED BE THY NAME. It is the first petition of The Lord’s Prayer.

It is a call to worship and humility, an invitation to reverence and adoration.

Great religion is about adoration, Someone you bow before. If you do not, you will soon bow before yourself. If that which you bow before is not God, it will be other people or other objects that cannot be a true center.

It is why we come to church. In T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, he goes into a famous old church in “Little Gidding,” and this is what he writes:

You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report.
You are here to kneel.¹

“Hallowed be Thy name.”

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August 21, 2011

"Our Abba in Heaven"
W. Gregory Pope, preaching

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Lord's Prayer Series

Hosea 11:1-4, 8-9; Galatians 4:6-7

The first two words of the Lord’s Prayer are crucial to the understanding of prayer, spirituality, and the life of faith in the way of Jesus.

1. We pray as part of the human family to God the Abba-Father of us all.

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August 7, 2011

The Magnificent Defeat
W. Gregory Pope, preaching

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Genesis 32:22-31; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Failure is common to the whole human race. Sometimes the failure is of our own doing. Sometimes we share the failure with others. Sometimes a venture fails because we stood on principles of ethics, and in reality was no failure at all, but a grand triumph of integrity.

Still the truth remains: we all to one degree or another fail. What do we do when we fail? How do we let go of a failure and move on? To deny the reality of failure is to court disaster.

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July 31, 2011

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
W. Gregory Pope, preaching

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Psalm 8; Ephesians 4:25-5:2, 15-16

There comes a time in almost everyone’s life when you come face to face with your own brokenness and the truth about your own life. If we refuse to act or seek help we will likely find our lives crumbling around us. To face our brokenness, our weakness, our sin and to seek the help of God’s grace and the supporting love of a community of faith might just save your life.

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