Sermons
The Hard Good Work
We’ll be getting our annual “Abraham” story this week. He, of course, is ‘Father Abraham”, the patriarch of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths, so he figures massively into the story. This week we’ll look at his original call. Why does God choose Abram (later Abraham)? How do we think his wife Sarai (later “Sarah) felt about it initially? Why does Abram say yes? What is the nature of this call, and what does it have to say for us…
The Full Spectrum
“Rally Sunday is upon us! I hope you can join us this Sunday as we kick off a new season at PPUMC. We will begin with worship as usual and a new season navigating the Narrative Lectionary.” -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Galatians 6:7-10
“This Sunday I will not be with you (taking a little staycation), and my friend and colleague Laquaan Malachi (goes by Malachi) will be filling in. I’ve known Malachi for about five years, and I’m excited to have him fill in. As a teaser, he is somehow connecting Galatians 6:7-10 to Dolly Parton, so that should be interesting. With this Monday being Labor Day, that means we kick into our 3rd season in the Narrative Lectionary the following, which I…
Week IV: Her Fruits
This Sunday is the last in our Holy Spirit series, and with that we will look at what it means to be “born from above”. In John 3 Jesus tells Nicodemus that one must be “born from above”, but how does that work? What does that look like? What does that feel like? Well, we’ll see if we can dig up some answers. -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Week III: Her Gifts
This Sunday we hit week three of our series on the Holy Spirit. So far we’ve looked at her in the context of the Trinity, and last week we looked at the method (yes, the “method” in Methodism!) for giving the Holy Spirit access to our lives. This week we will look at the gifts of the Spirit. No one holds all of them, but all have some of them (though the running theology is that Jesus of course was…
Week II: Access
We are in week 2 of a four-week series on the Holy Spirit, wherein we will look at “Access”. How do we access the Holy Spirit and give her access to our lives? And what happens when we do? Also, we will have a special music piece by yours truly (assuming he remembers his guitar this time!) What will that piece be? Well, that remains a mystery. -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Week I: Trinity
This week I’m excited to both leave the Revelation series behind us (it was a challenge, but was a good one for me take on and for us to engage in, I believe), and then to open up a new series on the Holy Spirit (or as we call it in the business: “pneumatology”). There is no way to preach an exhaustive series on the Holy Spirit, so we will be looking at four elements to her. Kicking off this…
Series Conclusion: The Book of Revelation
We close out our series on the Book of the Revelation this Sunday! What a journey. I want to thank those of you who really struggled with this series for enduring! It’s a tough book, but I am also glad we wrestled with it. This Sunday, however, I will not be here. I am grateful to have Pastor Kim back at it, and he will close out the series for us. -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
A Great Multitude…
We are getting toward the end of our series on Revelation: Just two weeks left! This week we get to the passage with the famed “Seven Seals”. So if you’ve ever wondered what that’s all about, be sure to join us this Sunday. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about finally tackling this wild book is the way in which it draws us into a vision for the kind of world I believe God dreams about, which is very much…
Keep On Keeping On
This Sunday we continue in our Revelation series, and we’ll take a jump backward to chapters 2 and 3, where the author writes short letters to seven churches in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). These letters are the part of the book that are the least coded with complex metaphors. It will be a nice break from those wild visions! -Pastor Paul Baudhuin