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PCM Sunday
PCM Student Sunday February 16, 2025 Matthew 18:10-14 Macie Fitzgerald’s sermon: Good morning. It’s an honor to represent PCM this morning. I’m Macie, one of four seniors preaching this morning. I came to PCM my freshman year and have spent the past three years in...
Stories Jesus Told: One Sower, Four Soils and a Whole Lot of Seed
Stories Jesus Told: The One about Yeast and Flour
Meg Peery McLaughlin Stories Jesus Told: The One about Yeast and Flour February 2, 2025 Matthew 13: 33 Prayer of Illumination: Tell us a story, Lord Jesus. And hold us close when it rattles us with your truth. Your Spirit is here and we are listening. Amen. ...
A Life Worth Living: The Odd Life
Jarrett McLaughlin A Life Worth Living: The Odd Life Luke 4:16-30 January 26, 2025 Cold Open: While I was studying theology in Richmond, a classmate of mine gave a sermon in Watts Chapel. He was making a point about the brevity of life – how our time is limited. He...
A Life Worth Living: Measuring Up
Meg Peery McLaughlin A Life Worth Living: Measuring Up January 19, 2025 Matthew 3: 13-17 Your bulletin says our text is Matthew 3: 1-17, and that is the text, But I cannot read it without adding the next phrase in the story, from Matthew 4. It’s kind of like how there...
A Life Worth Living: What Are We Doing Here?
Jarrett McLaughlin A Life Worth Living: What Are We Doing Here? January 12, 2025 1 Kings 19:1-13 Cold Open: I have this weird affinity for both of the Voyager Space Probes. They launched respectively on August 20th and September 5th 1977 - mere months before I...
Life Worth Living: Finding your Life
Meg Peery McLaughlin Life Worth Living: Finding your Life January 5, 2025 John 12: 20-26 Prayer of Illumination We are looking for life, O God. Your word is a lamp unto our feet And a light unto our path. Speak, we are listening. Amen. 20 Now among those who went up...
Christmas Eve
Meg Peery McLaughlin December 24, 2024 Luke 2: 1-20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own...
A Weary World Rejoices: “and the soul knew its worth”
Jarrett McLaughlin A Weary World Rejoices: “and the soul knew its worth” Luke 1:39-56 December 22, 2024 Cold Open: The force that attracts any two objects with mass toward one another – this is a simplistic definition of gravity as articulated by Isaac Newton. Another...