Sermons from March 2024

Sermons from March 2024

The New Covenant

The New Covenant Resurrection Sunday  March 31, 2024 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 6:44-45   Introduction: Citizenship, Marriage, Congregational Covenant important in Congregational Churches cf. the Mayflower Compact. A few years ago I visited several government websites to see, on a lark, how easy it would be to immigrate to and become a citizen of another country.  Canada did not want me, though if I learned a trade they might change their minds.  Switzerland…

Out of the House of Bondage

Out of the House of Bondage Hebrews 2:15; Exodus 20:1 Sunday, March 3, 2024 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa   The anxiety I felt after a few months in Ohio.  The Spirit-if you stay long enough, then you’ve come to the place where you will die.  Many years ago, I moved to Ohio and lived there for a number of years.  After about four years, roughly around 2023, I experience this strange sense of anxiety that I…