Sunday, February 21, 2016

sermon, "The Way Around", by Erica Berberena, Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church, February 21, 2016, Second Sunday in Lent

The Way Around
By: Erica Berberena
Many people have opinions on how other people should live their lives. For example the youth of our day and age have people telling them what they should be doing with their lives and how to do it. But here is the real question is it the way that God chose for them. Our own individual ways are not always understood. Jesus found this out himself for if his way had been understood then just maybe he wouldn’t have been crucified. On a personal note many of you know that I had gone off to college right after getting out of high school. I had people telling me that it is the only way I could be someone in life. I had people telling me that I should go for writing because I was good at it. But the real question was did I love doing it and was it the way that God had created for me. In the end I decided that it wasn’t the best for me because I didn’t have a passion for it.  It is said that if you love doing the job you choose then it makes it easier to do. We are all created differently than one another only God knows the possibilities of us and only he knows who we actually are for he is the one who created each of us to be different. Sometimes it is better to do what we dream of doing with our lives because only God can create these dreams for us. Sometimes we just need to stop and say God I put my life in your hands do with it as you will because only he knows what our future holds. It’s better for us to take God’s way for us and bypassing the ways chosen by other people for us because their way may not be the best for us in our pursuit to be ourselves and not carbon copies of what everyone expects us to be. In the end it is God who is the best person to take the advice of which path we take because only he knows everything.
Dear God we come to you today to ask that you take us and steer us down the way you have chosen for us so we may become the people you have designed us to be. Amen.
February 21, 2016
not listening to the world
February 21, 2016
seeking our path
February 21, 2016
the path of God
February 21, 2016
a way around
February 21, 2016
around the stumbling blocks
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other paths
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going another way
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I need to let go
February 21, 2016
Stetson Memorial UMC
Second Sunday of Lent
“The Way”
Adapted Sermon Series
 by Marcia McPhee
“The Wandering Way”
adapted by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s Whisper” blog
Psalm 8:1-4
Mark 1:16-20
sermon, “The Way Around”
text:
video:
by Erica Berberena
Children’s Message from empty Mystery Box
by Raymond A. Foss
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
2nd Sunday in Lent
February 21, 2016
&
February 14, 2016
Stetson Memorial UMC
First Sunday of Lent
“The Way”
Adapted Sermon Series
 by Marcia McPhee
“The Wandering Way”
All Scripture is from the AMP Bible
Luke 1:46-49
Luke 4:1-2
Luke 15:11-32
sermon, “I Am A-Maze-D…”
text:
video:
by Pastor Ruth Foss
Children’s Message from Mystery Box
by Pastor Ruth Foss
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
1st Sunday in Lent
February 14, 2016
&
Ash Wednesday service
Joel 2:12-17a
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
centering song, “Surely the Presence”
Opening Words
Greeting
Lenten Prayer
Hymn, “In the Garden”
Prayer of Confession
Words of Assurance
Invitation to Communion
Prayer after Communion
Invitation to receive ashes
Distribution of Ashes
Lenten poem: ”Journeying to Jerusalem”
sermon, “The Math of Lent 2.0”
by Pastor Ruth Foss
and closing hymn,
“It Is Well with My Soul”
Closing Prayer
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Ash Wednesday
February 10, 2016


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