Sermons · Wilson Pruitt

Theme Index

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Theme Index

527 themes.

discipleship (28)

incarnation (28)

grace-not-merit (27)

stewardship (23)

humility (22)

repentance (21)

resurrection (21)

holy-communion (20)

identity-in-christ (20)

love-of-neighbor (20)

scripture-interpretation (19)

advent-expectation (18)

forgiveness (18)

spiritual-discipline (17)

holy-spirit (16)

apostles-creed (15)

christian-community (15)

prayer (15)

transformation (15)

freedom-in-christ (14)

means-of-grace (14)

justice-and-righteousness (13)

new-creation (13)

sanctification (13)

the-cross (13)

comfort-in-grief (12)

passion-of-christ (12)

trinity (12)

eternal-life (11)

fasting (11)

grace (11)

grace-as-gift (11)

holiness (11)

judgment (11)

us-vs-them (11)

bodily-resurrection (10)

call-to-discipleship (10)

christus-victor (10)

creation (10)

generosity (10)

idolatry (10)

presence-of-god (10)

resurrection-hope (10)

second-coming (10)

self-denial (10)

self-examination (10)

temptation (10)

victory-over-death (10)

atonement (9)

baptism (9)

christology (9)

gods-unconditional-love (9)

kenosis (9)

kingdom-of-god (9)

letting-go-of-control (9)

lords-prayer (9)

prevenient-grace (9)

readiness-watchfulness (9)

scarcity-vs-abundance (9)

take-up-your-cross (9)

works-of-love (9)

cheap-grace (8)

communion-of-saints (8)

evangelism (8)

faithfulness-amid-trials (8)

following-jesus (8)

harrowing-of-hell (8)

loving-enemies (8)

magnificat-reversal (8)

methodist-history (8)

new-beginnings (8)

new-commandment (8)

ordinary-faithfulness (8)

radical-welcome (8)

restlessness (8)

resurrection-appearances (8)

servanthood (8)

transformed-desire (8)

already-and-not-yet (7)

anxiety (7)

bearing-fruit (7)

congregational-decline (7)

divine-providence (7)

doers-not-hearers (7)

facing-fear (7)

funeral-liturgy (7)

  • A Service of Death and Resurrection (Funeral/Memorial Template)
  • Glynis Frye Memorial
  • Memorial for Estalena Ferguson Aylieff
  • Caroline Miller (Memorial Service)
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for David Bates
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Andy Williford
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Bruce Martin

god-seeks-the-lost (7)

great-commission (7)

image-of-god (7)

joy (7)

original-sin (7)

power-in-weakness (7)

rest-in-christ (7)

sabbath (7)

salvation (7)

self-giving-love (7)

sin-as-missing-the-mark (7)

spiritual-formation (7)

the-magi (7)

truth-telling (7)

admitting-need (6)

almost-christian (6)

christian-perfection (6)

cost-of-discipleship (6)

death-and-resurrection (6)

easter-works-of-love (6)

faith-as-seeing (6)

god-is-love (6)

identity-of-jesus (6)

light-and-darkness (6)

living-in-the-present (6)

new-birth (6)

salvation-history (6)

scripture-reading (6)

sermon-on-the-mount (6)

the-gospel (6)

theology-of-the-body (6)

trust-in-god (6)

vocation-and-calling (6)

wesleyan-general-rules (6)

works-of-mercy (6)

abiding-in-christ (5)

antinomianism (5)

body-of-christ (5)

bread-of-life (5)

confession-of-sin (5)

consumerism (5)

courage (5)

covenant-with-abraham (5)

creatio-ex-nihilo (5)

discernment (5)

disordered-love (5)

distraction-and-busyness (5)

early-church-community (5)

faith-and-science (5)

faith-as-action (5)

foot-washing (5)

holy-spirit-as-advocate (5)

interpreting-revelation (5)

letter-versus-spirit (5)

marriage (5)

  • Glynis Frye Memorial
  • Where Are We
  • Elizabeth and Scott
  • Rachel and Tanner
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Bruce Martin

mercy (5)

need-for-a-savior (5)

non-judgment (5)

patience-as-faith (5)

problem-of-evil (5)

receiving-grace (5)

reconciliation (5)

remembering-the-dead (5)

responding-to-injustice (5)

resurrection-changes-everything (5)

sacred-story (5)

spiritual-deception (5)

spiritual-warfare (5)

the-wounds-of-christ (5)

vulnerability (5)

worship-and-liturgy (5)

you-are-worthy-already (5)

answering-gods-call (4)

anti-dualism (4)

ascension (4)

attentiveness-to-jesus (4)

beatitudes (4)

christian-hope (4)

christian-unity (4)

chronos-and-kairos (4)

church-membership (4)

congregational-future (4)

conversion (4)

covenant (4)

divine-mercy (4)

empty-tomb (4)

eschatology (4)

exile (4)

faith-as-risk (4)

faith-over-fear (4)

faithful-perseverance (4)

freedom-from-sin (4)

gods-faithfulness (4)

gratitude-to-god (4)

hidden-piety (4)

hope-not-optimism (4)

hypocrisy (4)

jealousy (4)

jesus-is-lord (4)

john-the-baptist-as-forerunner (4)

kingdom-here-and-now (4)

lament (4)

light-of-christ (4)

logos-christology (4)

mercy-not-sacrifice (4)

messianic-fulfillment (4)

miracle-and-the-ordinary (4)

mountaintop-and-valley (4)

new-life-in-christ (4)

passing-faith-to-next-generation (4)

purpose-of-the-church (4)

relationship-with-god (4)

salvation-by-grace (4)

seeking-god (4)

self-reliance-versus-trust (4)

serving-the-least (4)

suffering (4)

suffering-and-divine-solidarity (4)

the-poor-and-the-presence-of-christ (4)

torah-and-law (4)

treasures-in-heaven (4)

wesleyan-grace (4)

wilderness-provision (4)

witness-and-martyrdom (4)

works-of-piety (4)

addiction-and-recovery (3)

anti-supersessionism (3)

assurance-of-salvation (3)

baptism-of-jesus (3)

church-as-refuge (3)

  • Congregant Notes (Sue, Emily, Jen, Nancy, Brenda, Michael, Rich, Jennifer)
  • Big Boat
  • Shelter

citizens-of-heaven (3)

confirmation (3)

contemplation-and-action (3)

curvatus-in-se (3)

danger-of-nostalgia (3)

divine-economics (3)

doubt-and-faith (3)

doubting-thomas (3)

everyone-matters (3)

evil-as-corruption-of-good (3)

existence-of-god (3)

faith-and-belief (3)

fatherhood-of-god (3)

feeding-the-five-thousand (3)

freedom-from-proving-yourself (3)

fruit-of-the-spirit (3)

gentile-inclusion (3)

god-equips-the-called (3)

god-uses-the-overlooked (3)

god-with-us (3)

good-samaritan (3)

good-shepherd (3)

grace-and-forgiveness (3)

grace-and-transformation (3)

growth-in-holiness (3)

healing (3)

herod-as-rival-to-jesus (3)

honesty-with-god (3)

hymnody (3)

in-the-world-not-of-it (3)

infant-baptism (3)

kingdom-politics (3)

lords-day-worship (3)

love-as-desire (3)

love-is-patient (3)

mary-says-yes (3)

materialism-vs-meaning (3)

mercy-as-transformation (3)

methodist-identity (3)

name-of-god (3)

obeying-strange-instructions (3)

outward-appearance-vs-heart (3)

peace-of-christ (3)

  • Glynis Frye Memorial
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Estalena Ferguson Aylieff
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Christine Renée Jarl

persistence-in-prayer (3)

pilgrim-people (3)

political-division (3)

power-as-domination (3)

praise (3)

prayer-without-ceasing (3)

pride (3)

prodigal-son (3)

real-presence (3)

regret-and-counterfactuals (3)

road-to-emmaus (3)

sacrificial-love (3)

scandal-of-particularity (3)

servant-leadership (3)

service-and-mission (3)

spiritual-hunger (3)

suffering-servant (3)

theotokos (3)

triumphal-entry (3)

walking-in-the-light (3)

wealth-and-greed (3)

wesleyan-covenant-prayer (3)

why-we-worship (3)

wonder (3)

you-are-not-alone (3)

abrahamic-call (2)

aldersgate (2)

anointing-at-bethany (2)

antichrist (2)

baptismal-covenant (2)

  • A Service of Death and Resurrection (Funeral/Memorial Template)
  • Baptism

baptismal-identity (2)

biblical-authority (2)

bronze-serpent-typology (2)

childlike-faith (2)

christ-at-center-of-home (2)

christlikeness (2)

church-as-field-hospital (2)

church-universal (2)

church-vitality (2)

circumcision-of-jesus (2)

creation-care (2)

denominationalism (2)

doing-gods-will (2)

economic-injustice (2)

election (2)

evangelistic-welcome (2)

facing-death-without-fear (2)

faith-as-journey (2)

famine-of-the-word (2)

fear-of-the-lord (2)

flourishing (2)

gift-of-the-heart (2)

gods-love-for-the-world (2)

good-works (2)

growth-in-grace (2)

guilt-and-shame (2)

holy-conferencing (2)

holy-week-discomfort (2)

human-brokenness (2)

ineffability-of-god (2)

justification-by-faith (2)

knowing-god (2)

living-water (2)

love-covers-sin (2)

love-of-animals (2)

  • Pet Blessing
  • A Service of Death and Resurrection for Christine Renée Jarl

love-of-god (2)

love-vs-hate (2)

loyalty (2)

mary-and-martha (2)

messiah-anointed-one (2)

mortality-and-death (2)

ongoing-conversion (2)

open-table (2)

pascals-wager (2)

patristic-witness (2)

paul-at-the-areopagus (2)

peters-confession (2)

pistis-christou (2)

powers-and-principalities (2)

presentation-in-the-temple (2)

prudence (2)

rejection (2)

resisting-fads-and-trends (2)

resonance-across-generations (2)

restoration-of-peter (2)

sacraments (2)

secularization (2)

self-as-enemy (2)

self-deception (2)

self-justification (2)

self-knowledge (2)

sending-the-seventy (2)

setting-face-to-jerusalem (2)

simplicity-of-jesus-call (2)

son-of-man (2)

sympathetic-reading-of-pharisees (2)

syrophoenician-woman (2)

ten-commandments (2)

the-annunciation (2)

theocentric-perspective (2)

transition-to-lent (2)

union-with-christ (2)

via-salutis (2)

welcome-and-belonging (2)

  • Congregant Notes (Sue, Emily, Jen, Nancy, Brenda, Michael, Rich, Jennifer)
  • The Gate

welcoming-children (2)

welcoming-the-stranger (2)

wesleyan-anti-calvinism (2)

wesleyan-covenant-renewal (2)

wesleyan-theology (2)

wrestling-with-god (2)

accountability (1)

aging-and-deficit-mindset (1)

  • Every Act of Faith

agrarian-theology (1)

alpha-and-omega (1)

angels-and-demons (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

baptism-as-divine-action (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

bearing-one-another (1)

being-known-vs-being-seen (1)

being-on-gods-side (1)

biblical-prophecy (1)

brokenness-of-the-world (1)

building-up-vs-puffing-up (1)

burden-and-weariness (1)

calling-and-unity (1)

care-for-the-poor (1)

character-of-god (1)

childlike-receptivity (1)

christ-as-mediator (1)

  • Evil

church-turned-outward (1)

church-year-time (1)

communal-worship (1)

confession-of-peter (1)

congregational-care (1)

  • Congregant Notes (Sue, Emily, Jen, Nancy, Brenda, Michael, Rich, Jennifer)

congregational-vision (1)

continuity-with-the-past (1)

conversion-of-saul (1)

cornerstone-of-christ (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

creeds-as-framework-not-limit (1)

  • Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

danger-of-a-single-story (1)

delayed-gratification (1)

disability-theology (1)

divine-timing (1)

doubt-and-struggle (1)

dry-bones (1)

easy-yoke-light-burden (1)

eating-with-sinners (1)

ecclesiology-servant-church (1)

encouragement-to-the-young (1)

endings-and-goodbyes (1)

eternal-life-now (1)

evangelism-anxiety (1)

expectations-as-baked-clay (1)

faith-and-works (1)

faith-as-moving-foundation (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

faith-as-small-and-growing (1)

  • Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

faith-cannot-be-manufactured (1)

faith-the-size-of-a-mustard-seed (1)

faith-which-vs-faith-by-which (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

faithful-disagreement (1)

false-messiahs (1)

fasting-and-spiritual-discipline (1)

fides-quae-vs-fides-qua (1)

  • Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

food-sacrificed-to-idols (1)

foundations-and-expectations (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

free-will-vs-predestination (1)

  • Drawn by the Father

freedom-not-coercion (1)

friendship (1)

funerals-and-eulogy (1)

gatekeeper (1)

glorification (1)

heaven-and-hell (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

hidden-women-of-scripture (1)

hosea-gomer-marriage (1)

  • Ordinary Time (Hosea 1 & Luke 11)

hypocrisy-vs-authenticity (1)

ideology-and-tribalism (1)

imitating-christ (1)

insider-outsider-dynamics (1)

integration-vs-fragmentation (1)

internal-vs-external-righteousness (1)

invitation-to-serve (1)

  • Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

jesus-as-temple (1)

jesus-over-theory (1)

joy-amid-suffering (1)

joy-in-worship (1)

  • Caroline Miller (Memorial Service)

jubilee-and-debt-forgiveness (1)

judgment-and-sin (1)

  • Peter Wants the Warmth Without the Weight

justification (1)

kinship-redefined (1)

labor-and-beloved-community (1)

lamb-of-god (1)

law-and-gospel (1)

legacy-and-witness (1)

lenten-seeking (1)

life-is-not-fair (1)

liturgical-calendar (1)

living-the-story-not-just-believing (1)

love-and-commitment (1)

  • Rachel and Tanner

love-as-character (1)

  • Caroline Miller (Memorial Service)

love-as-faith (1)

  • Every Act of Faith

love-not-domination (1)

marks-of-the-church (1)

methodist-identity-and-trust-clause (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

moralistic-therapeutic-deism (1)

  • Peter Wants the Warmth Without the Weight

names-known-by-god (1)

need-vs-want (1)

new-covenant (1)

not-alone-in-suffering (1)

old-testament-new-testament-continuity (1)

openness-to-change (1)

openness-to-the-spirit (1)

parable-as-provocation-not-analogy (1)

parable-of-the-sower (1)

parable-of-the-talents (1)

parable-of-the-weeds (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

parables (1)

peaceable-kingdom (1)

  • Pet Blessing

pentecost-birth-of-the-church (1)

perseverance-in-faith (1)

peter-walking-on-water (1)

  • A Foundation of Water

peters-denial (1)

  • Peter Wants the Warmth Without the Weight

practice-before-theory (1)

privilege-and-entitlement (1)

purification (1)

reconciliation-and-grace (1)

refusing-worldly-power (1)

rejection-in-jesus-hometown (1)

release-from-savior-complex (1)

repentance-and-forgiveness (1)

repentance-and-restitution (1)

revival (1)

ruth-and-naomi (1)

salvation-and-transformation (1)

samaritan-woman-at-the-well (1)

self-love (1)

self-revelation-vs-hiding (1)

serving-others (1)

shared-sacred-story (1)

show-dont-tell (1)

signs-and-symbols (1)

sin-and-grace (1)

sin-as-debt (1)

sin-as-distorted-gift (1)

small-faithful-labor (1)

speculation-vs-scripture (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

spiritual-gifts (1)

stumbling-blocks (1)

succession-and-mantle (1)

surrender-and-grace (1)

temple-cleansing (1)

testimony-of-water-blood-spirit (1)

the-devil (1)

the-name-of-jesus (1)

theological-virtues (1)

tilling-not-sowing (1)

unrequited-love (1)

  • Mal: Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate

unworthiness-before-beauty (1)

violence-not-eternal (1)

  • Pet Blessing

vulnerability-of-god (1)

we-are-all-sinners (1)

we-are-not-the-messiah (1)

weakness-as-strength (1)

wedding-at-cana (1)

wesleyan-doctrinal-guardrails (1)

  • Jacob’s Ladder

why-are-you-here (1)

  • Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

wisdom-of-the-world (1)

word-of-god (1)

yoke-of-christ (1)

your-story-matters (1)

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