Category - Preaching Resources

(Seeds being delivered to the flood-ravaged Rio Coco area of Nicaragua) The Extravagant Sower by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 11:1-9, 18-23 Jesus does the work for the preacher in this week’s text. He gives us the...

(A John Deere tractor donated by Moravians in North Dakota helping the farmers in Honduras) The Good Seed and the Weeds, Only God Knows for Sure by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Last week in Matthew...

(Mission Camp participants helping to install a handicap ramp in rural Appalachia) For the Good of Others by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 11:16-19, 18-23 If Jesus had acted in his own self-interest, following his...

(Villagers in Tum Tum Tara, Honduras, are given a water filter, a bucket, and instruction how to have clean water in their homes) It’s As Simple as A Cup of Water by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text:  Matthew 10:40-42 It...

Where is the Focus of our Lives? by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 10:24-39 This is a very difficult text from which to fashion a sermon, but one well worth the effort of working with.  To begin with, this appears...

Instructions for Disciples by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 9:35-10:23 Not long ago, I was invited to one of those paint parties where you go with your friends to an art studio, and everybody in the group is...

(BWM and British Mission Board members are welcomed with open arms in Arusha, Tanzania) No Outsiders Here! By Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 A tax collector, a synagogue leader who has just lost his...

It’s All About the Mission Trinity Sunday Preaching Text: Matthew 28:16-20 I have little doubt that this particular text was chosen for today because it contains these words: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...

(Members of the Estamos Unidos Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, NC building a new deck on a home near Laurel Ridge as part of Mission Camp. Many varied gifts were needed to get the job done.) Unity for Mission By Bishop Chris...

That They May Be One by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: John 17:1-11 Let me just state up front that I am I’m not insinuating that dads don’t do their share around the house, but I am saying that in my experience, my mom did...