Sermon: My Friend  Rev. Janet DoyleElmer Presbyterian ChurchFirst Sunday of Lent 2022March 6, 2022Scripture: John 1:1-5,14 ; Luke 4: 1-13Sermon: Being Human At Advent and Christmas time we celebrate that Jesus has come to earth.  Theologians call it the Incarnation –God in human flesh.  The Bible calls him Immanuel—God with us. Immanu means “with us.”…

Sermon: My Friend  Rev. Janet R. Doyle Elmer Presbyterian Church 2nd Sunday in Lent March 13, 2022 Scripture: John 15: 9-16 and Luke 19: 1-10  One of the Greek words for “love” is “phileo,” and the Greek word for “friend” is “philos,” that comes from this verb. In the New Testament, a “friend” is immediately understood as “one who…

Rev. Janet R. DoyleThanksgiving Service142 Anniversary CelebrationNovember 21, 2021Scripture: Psalm 100Sermon: What are you thankful for?Once upon a time, there was a great famine. The people in one small village didn’t have enough to eat and definitely not enough to store away for the winter. People were afraid their families would go hungry, so they…

Rev. Janet DoyleFirst Sunday in AdventSunday, November 28, 2021Scripture: Isaiah 61:1-3; Galatians 4:4-7Sermon: It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Gift of HopeOne of my favorite songs at Christmas time, sung by, Andy Williams is, “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” Does anyone like this one?LyricsIt’s the most wonderful time of the…

Rev. Janet DoyleElmer Presbyterian ChurchThird Sunday in AdventDecember 12, 2021Scripture: Psalm 126; Luke 1: 39-49Sermon: It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year: Gift of JoyJoy is such a wonderful emotion. Scientists generally define joy as a positive emotion where you have feelings of freedom, safety, and ease, that generally arises in response to something…

Rev. Janet DoyleElmer Presbyterian ChurchFourth Sunday in AdventSunday, December 19, 2021Scripture: 1 John 4: 7-21Sermon: It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year- Gift of LoveLast Sunday we lit the candle of joy. We light it and the Candles of Hope and Peace again as we remember that Christ, who was born in Bethlehem, will…

Rev. Janet DoyleChristmas Eve 2021December 24, 2021Scripture: Luke 2: 1-20Sermon: What Child Is This?He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpentry shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. When the tide of popular opinion turned against him,…

Rev. Janet DoyleElmer Presbyterian ChurchSunday, December 26 2021Scripture: Psalm 46; Matthew 2: 1-23Sermon: A Place of RefugeYesterday was Christmas day, the day we waited for as we walked through the Advent Season. We read our Advent devotional, had four weeks of our Advent series on “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Last Sunday we had “The…