LUKE 14 DINNER

What: Luke 14 Dinner for the Needy. Members will fill their plates and personally deliver and donate their Sunday afternoon lunch to the Friendship Mission Homeless Shelter.

When: September 12th, approx. 12:30 p.m. (immediately after the 11 A.M. service)

Where: Hall Memorial CME Church is at 541 Seibles Road, Montgomery, 334.288.0577; Friendship Mission is at 3561 Mobile Highway, Montgomery, 334.284.5391

Hall Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church calls on all tri-county area citizens to donate their Sunday lunches and dinner to those most in need on Sunday, Sept. 12.

HMCME is well-known for the delicious soul-food dinners we serve after special afternoon services. On Sept. 12th, after 11 A.M. worship service, we will pile food on their plates for a traditional Sunday meal – with a twist. Rather than enjoying the meal ourselves, we’ll get into our cars and caravan to the Faith Mission homeless shelter to deliver them to their fellow man. Along the route, meals will also be shared with the hungry who are on the streets.

We’re calling it the Luke 14 Dinner.

As we were preparing our church calendar and I was preparing my sermon, the Lord convicted us out of Luke 14: 11-14:
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. Then He [Jesus] said to the host who invited him, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

We, the Church, have been blessed with so much. But we don’t have so that we can possess. We have so that we can share with others and serve God out of the blessings He gives us.

THE RISK OF INVITING JESUS TO DINNER

Usually I tell you how the audio of thes sermons begins. Let me tell you how this sermon ended. At the end of this sermon, during worship, Hall Memorial CME Church committed to cooking the kind of big soul-food church dinner we’re known for, but we’re not going to eat any of it.


On Sept. 12th, the members of our church will fill to go plates after church, get in our cars, and go down the strip where the addicts, prostitutes, & transients hang out; and we will hand our food to them.

Listen to the challenge from God that led to that decision.

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MY GOD, OUR GOD, YOUR GOD

In 1 Chronicles 28 & 29 King David kickoffs the project that is his greatest vision: the building of the original temple in Jerusalem. However this ambition is not one David will accomplish, at least not alone. In dealing with this situation, David refers to “my God,” “our God,” and “your God.” What does he mean? What is the difference? What does this have to do with church, church folk, and your personal walk with God?


Listen well and hear the answers.

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GOOD GRAPES OR STINKBERRIES

Isaiah chapter 5 opens with a song. The song is beautiful and prophetic. But, the one singing the song is not the prophet Isaiah.


The singer is God Himself. No, it’s not a song about God. It is a song by God.

God’s lyrics and His explanation of the song to Isaiah present a parable and a pair or prophetic possiblities. The message deals with our destiny historically, currently, collectively, and individually.

(One note: in this sermon I refer to the founding of the CME Church. I say the wrong year. The correct date is 1870.)

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PRAYER- BIBLE STUDY LESSON #1

We’ve just started a new mid-week Bible study series at Hall Memorial CME Church. We are studying PRAYER. Our approach is the same as in every Bible study, rather than me, the pastor, telling you what you should do, we walk through the scriptures and together we see what God says we should do.


Attached are the study questions for the 1st lesson.

We meet, learn, and discuss on Tuesdays at 5:30 P.M. & Wednesdays at 6:30 P.M. Call 334-288-0577 or 334-318-3004 if you need directions to HMCME.


Click here to view the lesson (right click and save)

Show Your Work (Worship is the Answer)

In a high school math textbook, the answers to half of the questions are all in the back of the book. But, having those answers isn’t enough to make you a math whiz. The life God calls us to lead is a life of holiness. The question is “What doesholy life in the world as it now exists actually look like?” The Bible, like a good textbook, gives us the answer to this crucial question. And the Lord’s Word also tells us what else we need to “make the grade” of holiness.


This sermon was originally delivered at Hall Memorial CME Church’s Educator Appreciation Service.

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COVETING GOD'S JURISDICTION

This was not the sermon I had intended to deliver this particular Sunday. But after working through the night on something else, the Spirt convicted me that this was what the Lord wanted me to say. Somebody, maybe you, needs to hear it.

In Luke 12, a young man presents Jesus with a case for judgment. It is an estate dispute involving the man and his brother. Jesus' answer seems perplexing, as though Jesus is saying He can't handle the case because it's outside of His "jurisdiction." A closer look reveals quite a different and deeper truth, one that applies to each of us and to all of us.

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