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Grant Me
Pastor Mike finishes his series on the lenten prayer of St. Ephrem. In the final line of the prayer we acknowledge God's lordship over us and how we …
5 years, 1 month ago
Give Me
Continuing the series on the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem, Pastor Mike preaches on the four virtues that we ask God to give us: chastity, patience, hu…
5 years, 1 month ago
Take From Me
Drawing from the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem, Pastor Mike preaches on who St. Ephrem was, why his Lenten prayer is still so powerful, and gives scrip…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Faith that Founded Us is the Faith that Sustains Us
On the 250th Anniversary of Zion's Stone UCC, our own Ray Biery preaches on the faith of those who founded our church and how that faith is one we sh…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Church is the Body of Christ (Not a Social Club)
Pastor Mike concludes his series The Church Is/Is Not by preaching on the Church is the Body of Christ (Not a Social Club). The church is not a socia…
5 years, 2 months ago
Repent & Return to the Lord
Pastor Mike preaches on how Lent is one of the primary ways we are confronted with the holiness of God, human sinfulness, and God's abundant mercy an…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Church is For our Transfiguration (Not Moral Transformation)
Pastor Mike preaches on the mistake of seeing the faith primarily as a pattern of moral transformation that inevitably leads to moralistic therapeuti…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive)
Pastor Mike continues his series The Church Is/Is Not and preaches on The Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive). After starting out with the cultural d…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Church is Exclusive (Not Inclusive)
Pastor Mike preaches on the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the means of human salvation as well as the exclusivity inherent in the reception of the s…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Church is for Our Conversion (Not our Actualization)
Continuing the series, The Church Is/Is Not, Pastor Mike drawing from the conversion of St. Paul preaches on how his conversion to Christ is the mode…
5 years, 3 months ago