Pastor Scott's Musings

 Sermon for Centenary UMC (Lebanon) on February 18, 2024 [Title Slide] Baptisms (Mark 1:9-15) [Slide] 9  In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.  10  And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove upon him.  11  And a voice came from the heavens, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”   [Slide] 12  And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.  13  He was in the wilderness forty days, tested by Satan, and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels waited (served or ministered) on him.   [Slide] 14  Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God  15  and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”             [Title Slide] One day Little Billy’s mother heard a ruckus echoing through the house. She wen

 Sermon for Centenary UMC (Lebanon) on February 11, 2024 Love is All You Need (John 3:16-18; 15:12-17) 16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17  “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.  18  Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:16-18) Jesus told his disciples… 12  “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  13  No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.  15  I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard fr