Coppertop Sermons

Wine Out of Time

Sermon preached June 12, 2016

Texts: I Kings 21:1-21a

Sometime type in your internet search engine- “Greatest movies of all time.”  One film that is often near the top of the list, and is on the top of the list of the American Film Institute’s 100 best American films, is the movie “Citizen Kane.”  How

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More Than Human Touch

More Than Human Touch

Sermon preached June 5, 2016

Texts: Luke 7:11-17

Bruce Springsteen, “Human Touch” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A

Sometimes we all need a little of that human touch, just a little of that human touch.

We also live in a time when we are aware of the need for limits around touch.  We rightly teach

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Passion is No Ordinary Word

Sermon preached May 29, 2016

Texts: I Kings 18:20-39

In the late 1970s in the history of rock ‘n’ roll music, there was a movement to recapture some of the energy of earlier rock ‘n’ roll.  You see, some thought the music had become too indulgent, too many long solos, too much artifice.  Of course, there

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Wild Wind

Sermon preached by MaryAnne Korsch on May 15, 2016

Dad, Daughter, World

Scripture Readings: Proverbs 8:1-4; John 16:12-15

On Sunday May 22, Pastor David and his daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Bard, an ob/gyn, had a conversation during the sermon time.

Pastor David discussed what had happened at the recent United Methodist General Conference in Portland.  He spoke of the pain and frustration in our denomination, of our struggles

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