On Wine and Wonders: A Tale of Two Explanations Have you ever been mocked? Been made fun of? Had someone ridicule something you said? It can be even worse than being outright rejected, yes? It’s worse because rejection says that at least your thought is being taken seriously even if your opponent presents arguments to […]
This sermon, On Wine & Wonders, was first preached at Plymouth Congregational Church in Racine, WI by Barbara Shafer (10.5.2014). Click link below to hear the message on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMofYudk0s&feature=youtu.be
Speaking in tongues is one of the most controversial, strange, and misunderstood concepts in the Bible. It has been the source of divisions in the Church, perhaps even more so than ideas surrounding baptism. Its various camps of belief form fierce adversaries whose behavior can seem anything but Spirit-filled by how they treat one another. […]
“Making Sense of Speaking in Tongues” (a sermon on Acts 2:5-12) was first preached at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI on September 28, 2014 by Barbara Shafer. Click link below to listen on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shGyuPJvT6w&feature=youtu.be
Today’s passage of Scripture, describing the coming of the Holy Spirit, is fitting for Rally Sunday and our fall Kick-off. His coming kicked off the entire Church for all time. But it’s also one of my very favorite passages in the Bible. Of course, I didn’t even know it existed 20 years ago when my […]
This is the audio version of the message entitled “The Holy Spirit Comes” from Acts 2:1-4, first preached at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine, WI on September 21, 2014. Click the link below to hear the message which includes a testimony of how I (Barbara Shafer, SeminaryGal) came to follow Jesus Christ and why I believe […]
Let me just start by reminding you, “Don’t open your box until we’re ready!” This is a one-of-a-kind interactive sermon. You may have heard of the Do-it-Yourself Messiah, you may have heard the Little Red Hen say, she’ll do it herself, or maybe you have done home improvements that were do-it-yourself. This isn’t completely a […]
Completing our numbers is both a quantity of people in the Church as well as a quality of people in the Church. Click the link below to listen to the audio version of Completing Our Numbers, a message first preached at Plymouth Congregational Church of Racine on September 14, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepWvjAsXWY&feature=youtu.be
Time is one of those things we never get back. Once it has passed us by, it’s gone forever. We’re living in the flow of it, we’re changed by it, we can try to resist it, but it keeps on rolling along. It’s like a river pressing against both banks, moving ever downstream, its currents […]
What are you doing with your time on earth? This is the audio version of last Sunday’s sermon from Plymouth Congregational Church entitled “Necessary Time” as we look at qualities of time (History, Maturity, and Synergy) and how they relate to the 24 hours each of us has for witness. Please click the link to […]
