by Anne Robertson | Jan 24, 2021 | Sermons
What can the church today learn from the experience of a church facing down hateful protesters? Courage. Remembering her experience with the Westboro Baptist Church, the Rev. Anne Robertson shows how fear met with love produces courage. This video also includes the Crawford Choir’s performance of “God Is Our Refuge” by Allen Pote, directed and prepared for online worship by Crawford’s Music Director, Logan Henke.
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Text: Galatians 5:22-23
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on January 24, 2021
by Anne Robertson | Dec 27, 2020 | Sermons
How come nothing “epiphs” on Epiphany anymore? It was once one of the three major feast days of the early church and now we hardly notice it. What’s that about? What have we been missing? Watch and find out what rediscovering Epiphany might mean for us as individuals and as a church as we move into a new year and a new way of being in the world.
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Text: Matthew 2:1-12
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on December 27, 2020.
by Anne Robertson | Dec 20, 2020 | Sermons
Many of the Christmas classics describe the transformation of their characters. But there are only two where the transformation comes about through an encounter with Christmas itself. One begins, “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.” The other begins, “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.”
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Text: Luke 2:1-12
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on December 20, 2020.
by Anne Robertson | Dec 13, 2020 | Sermons
Why did God broadcast the news about Jesus’ birth to shepherds? Why show the angel chorus and light show on the Shepherd Channel and not the Royalty Channel, the Temple Channel, or the local news? Because shepherds were the ones who would understand.
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Text: Luke 2:8-16
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on December 13, 2020.
by Anne Robertson | Nov 29, 2020 | Sermons
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear was written by Unitarian Minister Edmund Sears in 1849. Both angels and people do a lot of bending in that carol. Why? Why did they cut out the third stanza back in 1935? What did it say, and what might we gain if we put it back?
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Text: Philippians 2:5-11
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on November 29, 2020.
by Anne Robertson | Nov 22, 2020 | Sermons
This sermon brings us the intersection of a secular holiday (Thanksgiving) and a Christian Holy Day (Christ the King or the Reign of Christ). The first celebrates gratitude and the second the day when human power will give way to the rule of Christ in the realm of God. Viewed separately, each has its pitfalls. But when we look at the two days together—the holiday and the Holy Day—the key to protecting ourselves from both errors comes into view. Watch and learn about the humble mind of Christ.
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Text: Philippians 2:5-11
This sermon was delivered to Crawford Memorial UMC by Rev. Anne Robertson on November 22, 2020.
