Sermons by Guy D. Griffith

Sermons by Guy D. Griffith

“The Lost Language Of Lament” | Sixth Sunday After Pentecost

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “The Lost Language Of Lament”Sixth Sunday After PentecostJune 30, 2024Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 1 Now it came about after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that David stayed two days in Ziklag. 17 Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan, 18 and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the…

“More Than A Hired Hand” | Fourth Sunday Of Easter

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “More Than A Hired Hand”Fourth Sunday Of EasterApril 21, 2024Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith John 10:11-18 11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters the flock. 13…

“What’s Going On In Here?” | Third Sunday Of Lent

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Third Sunday of Lent“What’s Going On In Here”Holy CommunionMarch 3, 2024Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith I Corinthians 1:18-25 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who [a]are perishing, but to us who [b]are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the understanding of those who have understanding, I will confound.” 20 Where…

Ash Wednesday Midday Service

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Ash Wednesday Midday ServiceFebruary 14, 2024Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith and Heidi Hudnut-Beumler Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 “Take care not to practice your righteousness in the sight of people, to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. 2 “So when you [a]give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets,…

“Gone Fishin'”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Gone Fishin’”Third Sunday After EpiphanyJanuary 21, 2024Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith Mark 1:14-20 14 After John had been arrested,[a] Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: 15 “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” [b] 16 As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;…

“Bethlehem Bound”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Bethlehem Bound”Fourth Sunday of Advent & Christmas EveDecember 24, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith Download Sermon Transcript Luke 2:1-20 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all [a]the inhabited earth. 2 [b]This was the first census taken while [c]Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all the people were on their way to register for the census, each to his own…

“What Keeps You Awake At Night?”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “What Keeps You Awake At Night”First Sunday of AdventDecember 3, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith Mark 13:24-37 24 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds…

“Unfair?”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Unfair”Seventeenth Sunday after PentecostSeptember 24, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith Matthew 20:1-16  “For the kingdom of heaven is like [a]a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a [b]denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the [c]third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace;…

“Who Calls The Tune”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Who Calls The Tune”Ninth Sunday after PentecostJuly 30, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching Romans 8:26-39 26 Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with [a]groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes…

“The Unforced Rhythms Of Grace”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “The Unforced Rhythms Of Grace”Sixth Sunday after PentecostJuly 9, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the other children, 17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not [a]mourn.’ 18 For John came…

“Setting The Table”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Setting The Table”Fifth Sunday Of PentecostJuly 2, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching Matthew 10:40-42 40 “The one who [a]receives you [b]receives Me, and the one who [c]receives Me [d]receives Him who sent Me. 41 The one who [e]receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and the one who [f]receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person shall receive a righteous…

“Division Of The House”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Division Of The House”Fourth Sunday Of PentecostJune 25, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching Matthew 10:24-39 24 “A [a]disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he may become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house [b]Beelzebul, how much more will they insult the members of his household!…

“Friend Of God”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Friend Of God”Second Sunday Of PentecostJune 11, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching Genesis 12:1-9  1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing; 3 And…

“What’s it like being prayed for?”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “What’s It Like Being Prayed For?”Seventh Sunday Of EasterMay 21, 2023Rev. Dr. Guy D. Griffith preaching John 17:1-11  The Prayer of Jesus.[a] 1 When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven[b] and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, 2 [c]just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to…

“Plenteous Redemption” | Fifth Sunday Of Lent

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Plenteous Redemption” | Fifth Sunday Of Lent | April 19, 2023 | Guy D. Griffith preaching Ezekiel 37:1-14    The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out [a]by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 He had me pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the…

“Blurred Vision” | Fourth Sunday Of Lent

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player “Blurred” | Fourth Sunday Of Lent | April 19, 2023 | Guy D. Griffith preaching John 4:5-11    As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4…

Celtic Sunday | “Grace & Gratitude”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Reformation Sunday Luke 19:1-10  He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass…

“Another Way”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah, 3 where…

“Surrounded”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2  29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were [a]drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down [b]after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days. 31 By faith the prostitute Rahab did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies [c]in…

“Giving Up?”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Eighth Sunday After Pentecost Hosea 11:1-11  1 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 The more [a]they called them, The more they went away from [b]them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols. 3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, [c]I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed…

Maundy Thursday | “That They Might Lovely Be”

John 13:1-7, 31b-35  13 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that…

“And On The Third Day…”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Second Sunday After Epiphany John 2:1-11    On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2 and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus *said to her, “[a]What business do you have with Me, woman? My hour has…

“Prophet Motive”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Second Sunday Of Advent Luke 3:1-6    Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, 2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the…

“Come, Labor On”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost James 2:1-10, 14-17   My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. 2 For if a man comes into your [a]assembly with a gold ring and dressed in [b]fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, 3 and you [c]pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and…

“The Best Advice”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Ephesians 4:25-5:2  25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil. 28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands,…

“Faith in Four Dimensions”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Ninth Sunday After Pentecost Ephesians 3:14-21 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. 16 I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, 17 and that Christ may dwell in your 5 hearts through faith, as…

“When Life Tumbles In”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Mark 4:35-41  35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. 38 But…

“Playing Hide And Seek”

Click this link for sermons on the Podcast Player Second Sunday After Pentecost Holy Communion Genesis 3:1-15   3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat…

Senior Sunday

Fifth Sunday Of Easter HOly Communion 8:30 a.m. First Sermon Scripture John 21:1-6  21 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2 Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin,[a] Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with…

“Stabat Mater”

Good Friday Choral Service Of Darkness John 19: 17-30 17 and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew[a] is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19 Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth,[b] the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read…

“Lifted Up”

Fourth Sunday In Lent John 3:14-21 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 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…

“Hope & Healing”

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Children, Don’t Get Weary…”

First Sunday Of Advent Mark 13:24-37 24 “But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. 27 Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the…

“All These Words…”

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 7 You shall…