Sermon 6/23/19Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16, 32-40, 12:1-2The Holy Club: A Matter of Faith Today we’re continuing in our sermon series on The Holy Club. The Holy Club, remember, was the name given to John and Charles Wesley and their friends who started gatheri…
bethquick.com | Sermon, "The Holy Club: A Matter of Trust," Proverbs 3:1-8, Luke 16:10-12
Sermon 6/16/19Luke 16:10-12, Proverbs 3:1-8The Holy Club: A Matter of Trust When John Wesley and his younger brother Charles were students in college, they struggled with how to keep growing in faith, despite the rigors of higher education. John was ho…
bethquick.com | Sermon for Pentecost Sunday, Acts 2:1-21
Sermon 6/9/19Acts 2:1-21Pentecost The Holy Spirit is weird. Let’s just acknowledge that right from the get-go. Christians are Trinitarian. That is, we worship one God, but we believe that God is a Trinity – three “persons,” one God – Father, Son, and H…
bethquick.com | Sermon for Ascension Sunday, Acts 1:1-11
Sermon 6/2/19Acts 1:1-11Ascension I shared with you a couple of weeks ago my joy that I’d gotten to attend my niece’s first dance recital. She’s been taking tap and ballet, and she loves it. She’s in the three and four year old class, and of course, t…
bethquick.com | Sermon, "Rising Strong: Tabitha," Acts 9:36-43
Sermon 5/19/19Acts 9:36-43Rising Strong: TabithaFor the last several weeks, as we’ve journeyed through this season of Easter, these days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday (which we’ll celebrate in June,) we’ve been talking together about the u…
bethquick.com | Sermon, "Rising Strong: Breakfast," John 21:1-19
Sermon 5/12/19John 21:1-19Rising Strong: Breakfast I’ve been thinking about learning how to swim this week. I was not a strong swimmer as a child. We never had more than a wading pool at home, and although we’d go to Delta Lake State Park often enough,…
bethquick.com | Sermon, "Rising Strong: Emmaus," Luke 24:13-35
Sermon 5/5/19Luke 24:13-35Rising Strong: Emmaus “That same evening, a couple of hours before dark, Cleophas, Jesus’s uncle, and his wife, Mary, who’d been at the cross, were making their way unhappily toward Emmaus, a town seven miles northwest of the …
bethquick.com | Sermon for Easter Sunday, Year C, "An Idle Tale?" Luke 24:1-12
Sermon 4/21/19, Easter SundayLuke 24:1-12Idle Tales If you had to place yourself on the spectrum from someone who believes things too easily, who is maybe a bit gullible, taken in by a story that isn’t true, to someone who is hard to convince, never be…
bethquick.com | Sermon for Maundy Thursday, "Do You Know What I Have Done for You?," John 13:1-17, 34-35
Sermon 4/18/19 – Maundy ThursdayJohn 13:1-17, 34-35Do You Know What I Have Done for You? I think the footwashing, Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, is one of the most compelling stories in the gospels. It only appears in the gospel of John, and…
bethquick.com | Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, "At the Table with Jesus: Zacchaeus," Luke 19:1-10
Artwork by Ayseluna HockenbarySermon 4/7/19Luke 19:1-10At the Table with Jesus: Zacchaeus I asked you to share about a time when you might have gone to some amount of expense or effort to see someone special – a celebrity or a special guest, or a perfo…
