Don’t Be a Duck
An oft-used image for the successful life is to be like a duck: look calm and collected above the surface, but beneath, where no one sees, paddle like heck. The image for the [...]
We Do Not Lose Heart
Could you find something in yourself that would make you content, no matter what the weather? Sermon preached by Jeff Vamos, June 17, 2018. Exodus 25:31-40 (selections), 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-06-17.mp3 [...]
Listen to the Voice
Good idea to jump off a cliff just because everyone else is doing it? Maybe. Maybe not. Sermon preached by Kyle Anderson, June 10, 2018. https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-06-10.mp3
Paying Attention in an Age of Distraction
If you've seen the movie Ghost, (1990), you know it's about a husband (Patrick Swayze) trying to communicate "from the other side." A ghost, he now desperately seeks to let his wife (Demi Moore) know [...]
Outside the Sheepfold
Sermon preached Sunday, May 27, by Merideth Mueller. https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-05-27.mp3
Seeing in Color
Have you ever had what you'd consider a spiritual - or mystical - experience? Such experiences are common, and people often ignore them, or are even ashamed to share them, because they fear people [...]
Let Yourself Go
Music is a means to reach deep into our souls, down to places that words can't reach; music has the power to enable us to "let go" and allow ourselves to be known by [...]
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Sermon on May 6, 2018 by Avagail Morgan, President of the Board of Deacons https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-05-06.mp3
Becoming a Brother to the Other
There's a section of Acts chapter 8 that contains one of the most interesting - and strangest - stories in the New Testament. It's Phillip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch, someone who would indeed [...]
Do You Like Jesus?
What role should social media play in seeking to live a faithful life in Christ? Is social media all bad? In a brief homily on Sunday, Dr. Vamos's sermon is about the promise and problem [...]
What Kind of Lord?
April 15, 2018, by Louise Johnson https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-04-15.mp3
A Pickle Forever
April 8, 2018, by Tom Baker What are the spiritual aspects of addiction and recovery? Addiction is a disease which is cunning, baffling and powerful but there is hope. https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-04-08.mp3
Easter Sermon
Easter Sermon, April 1, 2018, by Jeffrey Vamos Is it possible to prove the resurrection? N. T. Wright, the theologian and biblical scholar, wrote a 700-plus page book attempting to do that. The heart [...]
April Fools
Sermon March 25, 2018, by Jeffrey Vamos What if we understood that Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem was really a parody of those in power? Is it possible we might understand parody and humor as [...]
Good Grief
Sermon March 18, 2018 Jeffrey Vamos Is grief...good? And if so, how? How might we think of grief in light of the hope of the gospels? Dr. Vamos explores the story of the death [...]
Jesus vs. The Übermensch
Sermon March 11, 2018 Jeffrey Vamos How many of us have read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged, and been inspired to throw off all mediocrity, seek to embody the greatness that is ours if [...]
Youth Sunday Sermon: “Life’s Value”
PCOL Youth present a scripturally based drama, for this annual Youth-led worship service. https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-02-25.mp3 February 25, 2018