Persistent Prayer for God’s Mission in Us by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Luke 18:1-8 Reading the Gospel text assigned for this week, I am reminded of a story about two frogs who, when looking for food one day, fell into...
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Preaching Mission for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost (October 9, 2022)
Upside-Down Once Again By Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching text: Luke 17:11-19 Following a consistent theme in Luke’s Gospel, this week’s text only reinforces that Jesus is here to reverse fortunes, turn tables over, and flip the...
Preaching Mission for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost and World Communion Sunday (October 2, 2022)
Moravian Worship in Tanzania Living Examples of Love by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Luke 17:5-10 On this World Communion Sunday, we take a moment to reflect on the global nature of God’s love, mercy, grace, and...
Preaching Mission for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost (September 25, 2022)
To Help or Not to Help? by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching text: Luke 16:19-31 We often look to Matthew 25:31-46 as the definitive teaching from Jesus on how we will be judged in the afterlife. This is where Jesus talks about...
Preaching Mission for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost (September 18, 2022)
What Is Your Motivation? by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Luke 16:1-13 The current pandemic has caused prompted a rush of invention and innovation to help create vaccines, face masks, and treatment procedures into the...
Preaching Mission for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost (September 11, 2022)
Seeking the Lost by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching text: Luke 15:1-10 At the age of 7, I found the ultimate hiding place. Our home had a front porch under which was a crawl space with just enough room for a seven-year-old to...
Preaching Mission for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost (September 4, 2022)
Mission Does Have Its Cost by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Luke 14:25-33 If you take a walk in the cemetery of a Moravian Church that has buried their members in the traditional manner, you will notice something very...
Preaching Mission for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost (August 28, 2022)
Mission Begins with Compassion and Humility By Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Texts: Luke 14:1, 7-14, Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 There are two inherent risks in doing mission work in God’s kingdom, and that is spiritual and...
Preaching for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost and the Spiritual Renewal of The Moravian Church (August 14, 2022)
(The village of Herrnhut, Germany taken from the Huttberg) What August 13, 1727 Means for August 14, 2022 By Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: John 17:1-2, 6-19 What follows is less a sermon and more the sharing of a story I...
Preaching Mission for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost (August 21, 2022)
Set Free for Service and Sabbath by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Texts: Isaiah 58:9b-14, Luke 13:10-17 It is at the very core of who Jesus is to set people free so they can be who God intended them to be. Just as Jesus...