Sermon Sunday August 10th, 2025 Rev. Norman A. Michaud Luke 12: 32-40 Today’s Gospel passage comes from Luke. Luke 12: 32-40 has varied translations. In the NSRV, from which I just read, the scholars who translated this passage use the word “slaves”, not “servants”. Our Pew Bible’s translation, the RSV, uses a different translation: 37 “Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at the table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!” The latter translation replaces the word “slave” with “servant.” Readers will find the switch from “slave” to

Order of Worship August 10th, 2025 10:00 AM *If you are able, please stand. Prelude: “Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing” Kevin Sadowski “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name:  Donald Busarow WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: MISSION STATEMENT: (Let us say our Mission Statement together) “To welcome and inspire All through faith, love, and fellowship according to Christ’s example.” Introit: “All the Way My Savior Leads Me”   Fanny Crosby/Robert Lowry *Call to Worship: Leader: Get ready! The Lord needs you. People: We are ready to serve God. Leader: Be prepared to serve in ministries of justice and peace. People: We are ready to serve God by helping others. Leader: Open your hearts, your souls, your minds to God’s mercy and love. People: Prepare us for service to you, O loving

Sermon Sunday August 3rd, 2025 Rev. Norman A. Michaud Luke 12: 13-21 When I read the Gospel selection from Luke this week, I thought of  gathering and losing things, which I have done in my life. Luke focuses on the wealth. Jesus’ tells a parable about a rich man who stores his wealth in ever larger barns. The rich man asks his “Soul” to “relax and make merry.” Yet God has other plans. God tells him, “‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” We all confront this question. We believe that we are storing for generations to come, but we do not know what will come. We enter this world

Order of Worship August 3, 2025 10:00 AM *If you are able, please stand. Prelude: “You Satisfy the Hungry Heart”  Charles Callahan  “Bread of Life from Heaven” G. Winston Cassler WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: MISSION STATEMENT: (Let us say our Mission Statement together) “To welcome and inspire All through faith, love, and fellowship according to Christ’s example.” Introit:  “Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove”  Isaac Watts/John Dykes *Call to Worship (Responsive) Leader: So many things draw us away from God. People: We are tempted by trinkets and gadgets. Leader: We place our interest in temporal things. People: But Christ calls us to a higher level. Leader: We are called to focus our lives on living as God would have us live. People: We are called to be open to ways of

Sermon Sunday July 27th, 2025 Rev. Norman A. Michaud Luke 11:1-13 Our passage from Luke’s Gospel this Sunday provides us with the Debts and Debtors language we use in many Protestant denominations. Debts and debtors also appear in Matthew 6:9-16. In Matthew, after the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus tells the disciples to forgive the trespasses of others, but Jesus does not ask that we forgive ourselves. When my sister, Margaret, and I were babies, we shared a bedroom. We slept in the same room until she was twelve and I was eight. Both my Grandmother and mother taught us to pray. The bedroom had a cross on the sealed fireplace mantel that glowed in the dark after the lights were turned off. It glowed all night.

Order of Worship July 27th, 2025 10:00 AM *If you are able, please stand. Prelude:  “The God of Abraham Praise”       Richard Proulx  WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: MISSION STATEMENT: (Let us say our Mission Statement together) “To welcome and inspire All through faith, love, and fellowship according to Christ’s example.” Introit: “Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove”   Isaac Watts/John Dykes Call to Worship: Leader: God, Creator of All, you have called us here to worship your power and forgiveness. People: May we receive God’s grace and love. Leader: Though we may falter to do what is right in God’s sight; People: God’s mercy and forgiveness are poured on us. Leader: Open your hearts and spirits to God’s compassion and love. People: Help us through Christ and