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Title: It's Time for a Change
(Genesis 18:1-15)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 6/28/09

Length: 21:48

Summary: What does it take for us to make significant changes in our lives -- and succeed? Well, first, I think most of us would say that change is about the only constant thing in our lives. I'm not talking about the random changes that happen TO us that we have no control over. My question relates to those changes we know we need to make, that we want to make or maybe are necessary that we make. Changes that we've tried to make for years and just can't seem to make it last? I'm talking faith changes, lifestyle changes, time or money management changes, workhabit changes; basically, all the areas of our lives that call for a plan and the discipline to carry it out. How do we do that? This morning, with the help of author, seminary professor and pastor, Dr. Leonard Sweet (no, he won't actually BE here) and some experts in the field of change, we'll take a look at what it takes to make the necessary changes in our lives and make them stick. With determination and God's help we CAN do it!

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Title: Father's Day Message
(no Bible reference)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 6/21/09

Length: 9:22

Summary:

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Title: Moving Beyong Justice
(Micah 6:1-8)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 6/14/09

Length: 20:01

Summary: 3nd sermon of the series titled: "The Rest of the Story"

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Title: NIMBY
(Judges 9:8-15)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 6/7/09

Length: 20:10

Summary: 2nd sermon of the series titled: "The Rest of the Story"

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Title: How to Handle a Bogart
(Acts 2:1-18)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 5/31/09

Length: 28:26

Summary: First sermon of the series titled: "The Rest of the Story" Some people love what they find in the New Testament but believe the Old Testament to be outdated and unimportant. Others wonder if anything in the Old or New Testaments are relevant still today. We will be spending the next few weeks tracing important principles found in the Hebrew scriptures, holding them up to what is revealed in the Christian scriptures, and asking how they work or don't work in our world today. This morning's message is entitled, "How to Handle A Bogart."

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Title: Why Doesn't Prayer Work for Me?
(Mark 14:32-42)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 5/24/09

Length: 18:25

Summary: Sixth sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question". The question we're wrestling with today is: "Why Doesn't Prayer Work for Me?"

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Title: Is Salvation by God, Through Jesus Alone, Exclusive And Extreme?
(1 John 4:7-21)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 5/17/09

Length: 23:48

Summary: Fifth sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question".

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Title: What's With All the Rules?
(Numbers 15:37-41)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 5/10/09

Length: 20:40

Summary: Fourth sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question". There are nagging questions of faith and Christian living that can easily become a breeding ground for doubt and disbelief. There are folks who are outside the faith who do not walk in the doors of a church because of these questions, and there are those inside the church who cannot take their Christian walk to the next level until some of these questions get addressed. At St. Andrew, we're not afraid of the tough questions. We may not answer them in a way that everyone finds fully satisfying, but learning to live with an old question in a new way often leads to the deepest kinds of understanding. The Question today is: "What's With All the Rules?"

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Title: How Can Such Irrelevant Stuff Be Infallible?
(Ephesians 5:21-6:9)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 5/3/09

Length: 23:27

Summary: Third sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question". Most of us have a series of presuppositions about the Bible that are more or less unexamined. We believe it is the word of God but we rarely spell out the specifics of what we mean about that. We believe the Bible ought to be regarded as being every bit as factual as this morning's newspaper, forgetting the problems with this morning's newspaper--and exactly what kind of truth the Bible is trying to communicate. Lots of folks outside and inside the church have so many "issues" with the Bible that they fail to see how it might have a relevant word for their lives. The question we address this morning asks: "How can such irrelevant stuff be infallible?"

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Title: What does God think about televangelists?
(Matthew 7:1-5)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 4/26/09

Length: 17:14

Summary: Second sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question". Our question for this morning is a great one. "What does God think about televangelists?" In preparation for this morning's message, based on this great question, I recently sent a mini-survey to about 50 people (members of this congregation and people I know outside the congregation, largely Christian but some non-Christian) asking them simple questions like, "Have you ever watched a televangelist?" And, "What do you think their mission might be?" Another question on this very informal survey was, "When you hear the word 'televangelist' what is the first word or image that pops into your head?" The overwhelming response to and about televangelists was negative. Words like unethical, fraud, sleazy, "man in a suit, selling salvation," very smarmy acting, "preacher on a stage asking for money," quacks, phonies, vultures were used to describe them and these were just the ones I'm comfortable putting in the bulletin! Out of 50, I had one positive response, a couple "I don't know anything about them" and the rest were negative. Wow! So, what do you think God DOES think about televangelists? Sometimes, as we consider tough questions like this, God takes us where we weren't heading -- and that certainly happened to me as I put this message together. Join us this morning as we consider another great question in our series based on questions from you. Be warned, it just might not end up where you think it will!

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Title: Why Do So Many Bad Drivers Belong to AAA?
(Colossians 3:1-17)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 4/19/09

Length: 23:25

Summary: First sermon of the series titled "Does God Care? Now That's a Good Question". We are beginning a brand new sermon series on the tough questions people ask about God, Faith & Christ's Church. And today we're going to try and wrestle with the classic: Why are there so many hypocrites in the Church? Aren't followers of Jesus supposed to be loving and accepting and morally principled? Then how do you explain all the things that get said and done in the name of Jesus that fall so far short of that ideal? Take a moment and ask yourself a similar question: Why do so many unprepared and bad drivers belong to the American Automotive Association? The answer to the bad driving question might help you answer the bad Christian question.

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Title: No One Can Ruin a Funeral Like Jesus
(Ephesians 2:4-8)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 4/12/09

Length: 27:35

Summary: No summary provided.

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Title: Who is THIS?
(Matthew 21:1-11)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 4/5/09

Length: 18:03

Summary: No summary provided.

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Title: Momma's Right Hand Boy
(Matthew 20:20-28)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 3/29/09

Length: 20:43

Summary: Everybody wants an inside track. Everybody wants to be the favorite son and the fortunate one. When it comes to what God is up to in Jesus we might stop and think about the implications of what we are asking. James and John get their Mom to come and ask Jesus to recognize what she believes is perfectly obvious: her two sons are the cream of the crop, heads and shoulders above the other disciples. Alas, she has no clue to what she's asking (and neither do we when we ask God for the same thing).

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Title: Those Unnamed (But Not Unknown)
(Luke 9:51-62)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 3/22/09

Length: 19:19

Summary: We are certainly a culture with "people." Practically everyone has people that work for them or people-resources they know they can use to help them get or accomplish this or that. "Let me talk with my people and I'll get back to you." Or, "I have people to do that." And, "Hey! That's my Peeps!" are all phrases that are quite common in our culture. Our culture, quasi-humorously, refers to them as the "little people;" those unnamed, but not unknown people that make up the bulk of the world. Now, I say unnamed but not unknown because even if we don't know the individuals referred to, if they are even referred to by name, we certainly know the type. The gospels are full of unnamed people who we would recognize from a mile away. Why? Because they sound very much like us! This morning we'll be talking about some of those unnamed people Jesus meets on His journey. Let's see if we can recognize any of them!

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Title: Something Fishy About that Gold Coin
(Matthew 17:24-27)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 3/15/09

Length: 23:38

Summary: During the season of Lent we are digging deep into the interactions Jesus had with relatively minor people he came across in the course of his day. This morning it is not so much a minor person as it is a minor annoyance of having to pay the Temple tax. In fact, it is such a minor passage you may never have heard a sermon preached on it. And yet the surprising and somewhat odd response Jesus gives his right hand disciple Peter (about how to go about paying that tax) raises some issues that are front and center for many of us today.

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Title: Last Night I Was Too Tired, And This Morning I'm In A Hurry
(Luke 17:11-19)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 3/8/09

Length: 22:11

Summary: Jesus heals ten lepers but only one comes back to thank him. Why is that? Surely, all ten appreciated the new lease on life Jesus gave them, so why didn't they get their thank you notes out on time? We all have reasons, excuses, and rationales for not expressing our gratitude and love to God. But isn't it time we get honest with God and therefore honest with ourselves? What would it take to live an excuse-free life?

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Title: Jesus and the party of No
(Luke 7:36-50)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 3/1/09

Length: 22:09

Summary: "To love the sinner but hate the sin" is a wonderful guide for Christ-like living. But how you go about doing that is not always so obvious. Jesus goes to a dinner party and experiences No after No after No from his host, and a long sustained "Yes, thank you" from an uninvited guest. Jesus manages to love a bad woman in a good way while at the same time hold a good man accountable for his bad behavior. He knows that every good party has grace, not judgment at its center. How can we as the church and as modern Christians become the party of Yes?

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Title: If You Are Willing...
(Mark 1:40-45)

Sermon: Rev. Pat Sleeth

Sermon date: 2/22/09

Length: 19:57

Summary: Imagine for a moment that you are standing on the street corner minding your own business when someone walks up to you and says: "If you wanted to, you could really help me out." So, what do you say? Depends, right? Now, let's suppose this person was dirty, maybe they didn't smell very good and, oh yeah, they are wrapped from head to toe in bandages--they have a wasting skin disease. Now what? And, then, just for the sake of argument, let's say that it was against the law for this person to be this close to you--even talking with you. Now how do you respond? Tough question, and I'm guessing the most of us would qualify our answer somewhat. Maybe we'd say something like: "Well, it depends on what you want." But in our text this morning, Jesus is offered this same 'If you wanted to...' question. Do you remember how He answered?

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Title: Finding Your Parachute on the Way Down
(Deuteronomy 5:6-22)

Sermon: Rev. Tim Burchill

Sermon date: 2/15/09

Length: 19:38

Summary: We often inwardly cringe when we think of God's laws and commandments. As Americans, we love our freedom and we resist anything that seems to impede or impinge on that freedom--even if it is from God. The problem is not that God's law is too restrictive. The problem is that we have lost sight of why God has given us his commandments in the first place. This morning we're going to take a little time to consider the purpose of plan that stands behind the gift of God's law.