Broadmoor United Methodist Church Sermons
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Christ on Trial: The Woman Healed (Luke 13:10-17)
This episode is the last time in the Gospel of Luke that Jesus taught in a synagogue. The Pharisees and teachers’ primary reason for attending that day was to see if Jesus would heal. I love the fact that they were convinced Christ would heal, even on the Sabbath, if He encountered a need. No amount of laws could keep Him from being Himself! The Pharisees and teachers caught Christ in the act of being God. Luke described the woman healed as one who had been crippled by a spirit and bound by Satan for 18 years. It was Jesus’ mission among the people of the nation to loose them from crippling influences and bring them to uprightness. Here was a graphic example of Jesus’ touch, bringing the woman to a position of uprightness. Jesus healed her through his touch and with His words: "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Immediately she straightened up and praised God.
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Christ on Trial: Matthew (Mark 2:4-7)
The Christ on Trial series examines how it is that Matthew was able to drop everything and follow Jesus.
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A First Time for Everything (Mark 11:1-11)
Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem signals that he is a different kind of king.
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I Can See Clearly Now (Mark 9:2-13)
I was in the third grade when I got glasses. I can remember hating to be called on to read either what was on the board or on the filmstrips with the text at the bottom. I would volunteer to work the projector so that I would not have to read. Everything was blurry and I thought something was wrong with me. I was horribly embarrassed. It was my third grade teacher, Mrs. Byers, who told my mother to take me to the eye doctor. I can remember when I put on my glasses for the first time I basically said, I can see clearly now. My nearsightedness was fixed with corrective lens. No more squinting. The trees had leaves not just green glob. God’s creation was clear. The disciples in our scripture were able to see Christ clearly through the lens of love and grace. Their vision was forever changed Their spiritual nearsightedness and farsightedness was cleared in order for them to see the divine nature of Christ. When Jesus is transfigured before us three things begin to happen. We see him, ourselves and our world more clearly. Julian of Norwich states, “God wishes to be seen, and wishes to be sought, and wishes to be expected and wishes to be trusted.†The more we are willing to receive the more Christ is willing to reveal. Maybe that is why he took these three willing hearts, this inner group with him up the mountain to pray. Prayer sharpens the eyes of our heart to see God in the details of our life and with prayer God pulls us out of ourselves to get a new vision in order to see a new view of God’s kingdom. And this happens to the disciples.....
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Paradox (Mark 9:2-9)
In the light of transfiguration and the dark of Golgotha, we sense something of the paradox of God’s glorious suffering love.
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Get Out of the Pit (Psalm 30)
Life comes with many pitfalls, and we often find ourselves in the lowest of places, but God provides the way to a "pitless future."
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What A Day! (Mark 1:29-39)
As we see in this passage, the call to follow Jesus means to listen as he listens. In the solitude of the mountain, Jesus is alone with God. In a solitary place we are also called to listen and to discern the voices that control and direct our lives. Who is in charge? Which kingdom rules? God’s or man’s – flesh or spirit? It is here that we encounter the transformational work of God in our lives as we face the cost of being kingdom-people, bringing the news and power of Jesus’ healing love to the world….
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Faith of the Forgotten (Isaiah 40:21-31)
In the midst of difficult times, faith calls us to wait on God, who has not forgotten.
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No More Buffalo Wings (1 Corinthians 8:1-13)
Where does my Christian liberty end and yours begin? It begins and ends at the table of Christ.
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