Sermon Topics for August 2008
3 August 08	Walking in the Light IV:  Adding More Candlepower	1 John 4:7-21
John’s message moves even more clearly toward seeing our behavior toward each other as evidence of our salvation and ground for our hope.  Second service held at Potato Creek with picnic following.
10 August 08	Guest preacher – Gary Burkett	Romans 13: 8-10; Mark 14:38
Resentment Covers Anger.              Hymns are 357 and 593; Betsy Riddle has a singer for special music.
17 August 08	Stumbling Blocks and Foolishness	1 Corinthians 1:18-25
A new series on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians church.  Paul begins by lifting up the power of God’s truth that we behold in the Gospel of Christ as the true wisdom that overcomes all of the short-sightedness of typical human “truth” and human “wisdom:.
24 August 08	The Spirit We Receive	1 Corinthians 2:6-12
Paul expands on the theme of the power of God’s Wisdom versus that of human wisdom-the things that seem true to us are often not really true when we examine them from a viewpoint of faith.
31 August 08	Wisdom’s True Source	1 Corinthians 3:16-23
When we learn to listen to and to trust God’s indwelling Holy Spirit we gain access to a new way of seeing and evaluating everything around us, letting us separate that which is true from that which claims to be true but really is not.