Sermons at Morehead FCC

Challenging Our Questions

Sharing Water with Jesus

How Do We Begin Again?

Who Will You Listen to?

Glory, Glory

Choosing a Way that Leads to Life

A Fast That Changes Things

Finding Ourselves in God's Foolishness

Called to Gospel

Testifying to Love

In this expansive story of the journey of the Magi, Matthew extends an invitation to us: join the Magi as fellow pilgrims on a spiritual journey of discovery. What can we learn from the Magi? Listen as Pastor Nancy offers words of insight from this well-loved Epiphany story. To receive a Star Word for your own personal reflection and sign up for a 7-week series of email reflection guides, send us...

Tis the season for resolutions. In conversation with the Teacher of Ecclesiastes, Pastor Nancy invites us to approach the new year with openness and questions, leaving space for God to do a new thing.  Scriptures: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13, Revelation 21:1-6 Poetry sources mentioned in today's sermon: "Reasons to Plant Raspberries," by James McKean. https://baltimorereview.org/summer_2021/contribut...

Having said yes to Gabriel's announcement that she would have a child, Mary rushes to the home of Elizabeth, her relative, who is also unexpectedly expecting a child. In Elizabeth's embrace, Mary begins to sing. Her song reaches back through the generations, tapping into the great tradition of women's singing of God's liberation. Listening to her song of God's upending of unjust systems, we can fi...

Spend time with the story of Joseph in Matthew's gospel and you meet a man whose well-ordered life gets turned upside down. Pastor Nancy suggests we take our cue from Joseph's response, saying, "Embrace the life you've been given--a life with all of its glorious imperfections, with its painful broken parts, with the shadowy valleys that do not quickly fade away. Make room for the unexpected in the...

Pastor Nancy engages the story of Gabriel's visit to Mary and imagines what happens in the space between Gabriel's announcement and Mary's response. And then Pastor Nancy invites us to imagine what other annunciations happen in our world, "In the busyness, in the struggles, in our anxieties and with all the clouds of uncertainties, the Sacred walks right in, pulls out a chair, puts both elbows on...

Matthew's gospel begins with a long list of ancient names, some familiar others less so. Why start a gospel this way? In her sermon, Pastor Nacy explains, "The genealogy is in some sense Matthew's way of letting us know who Jesus's people are. It's situating Jesus's story into a larger story, one of the history of Israel, and to the larger work of God in the world. So while we may want to skip ove...

Allegiances

Dream Big

Not Just for the Few

Seeking and Being Found

God's Plan: A Generational Legacy

On Not Losing Heart

In this week's sermon "Welcome to the Neighborhood" Pastor Nancy explores the words of the prophet in Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 . "Jeremiah says, ' Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…for in its welfare you will find your welfare.' These words, even though they were first spoken to a people living in foreign land over 2,500 years ago, hold wisdom for us today. What can we do to promote the...

Elusive Faith

Enlarging Our Vision, Enlarging Our Souls