SERMON SERIES: Follow Jesus SERMON TEXT: Mark 12.13-17 SERMON TITLE: Death & Taxes SERMON STYLE: Buttrick’s “Three Moves” (visuals here used on screen in worship) DEATH & TAXES We’ve said previously that Mark’s Gospel has multiple “controversy” stories that follow a basic formula: (1) Jesus is questioned (2) Jesus responds (usually with a question or Read More …

ENCOUNTERING JESUS (series): “QUESTIONS”  On Christmas morning this year, Stefanie surprised me with an unexpected gift a book titled: “Our Q & A a Day” – 365 questions answered by 2 people every day over a 3-year cycle. My The book jacket states: This journal is designed so that two people can create a snapshot of Read More …

This is the final post in my “Future of the Church of the Nazarene” series (at least for now) – inspired as a response to Josh Broward’s Will the Church of the Nazarene Split?  NOTE: SO MUCH MORE COULD BE SAID ABOUT THIS TOPIC THAT HASN’T and WON’T BE SAID HERE – THAT MUST BE FOR ONGOING Read More …

I remember the shock, confusion, and grief of 9-11 vividly. This generational cataclysmic event is a marker for those who lived through it. We still ask one another: “Where were you when the Twin Towers fell?” I was sitting in an aisle seat on a Southwest airlines Boeing 737 on a runway in Kansas City, Read More …

Jason T. Rowinski – Shawnee Church of the Nazarene  Sermon Series: ENEMIES of COMMUNITY (1 of 4) “Do-Over” Hermeneutical Style: P. Scott Wilson’s 4 Pages Note: Images below are images used for the sermon.  Deuteronomy 6:1-12 (NRSV) 6 Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in Read More …

INSTANT REPLAY – The Practice of Posting Last Week’s Sermon Manuscript “THE PUNISHER” – August 23, 2015 – Shawnee Church of the Nazarene Author: Jason T. Rowinski Calendar: Ordinary Time  Sermon Series: “LOVE LETTERS – Lessons from 1 John” Sermon Text: 1 John 3.14-24 Homiletical Method: Eugene Lowry’s “Homiletical Plot” Post 1997 version Note: (1) The Read More …

INSTANT REPLAY – The Practice of Posting Last Week’s Sermon Manuscript “TRUE RELIGION – August 16, 2015 – Shawnee Church of the Nazarene Author: Jason T. Rowinski Calendar: Ordinary Time [Family Worship Sunday w/kids K-6th grade in the whole service] Sermon Series: “LOVE LETTERS – Lessons from 1 John” Sermon Text: 1 John 3.14-24 Homiletical Method: Read More …

INSTANT REPLAY – The Practice of Posting Last Week’s Sermon Manuscript “HARDER” – July 26, 2015 – Shawnee Church of the Nazarene Author: Jason T. Rowinski Calendar: Ordinary Time Sermon Series: “The HARD SAYINGS of JESUS”  Sermon Text: Matthew 19.23-30 Homiletical Method: Paul Scott Wilson’s “4 Pages of a Sermon” Note: (1) The small variances Read More …