Sermons from the Rev. Dr. David Mingus
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, June 20th, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, June 20th, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Jun 13 2021 Ephesians 3:14-21
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Jun 13 2021 Ephesians 3:14-21
Sermon from Pentecost Sunday at Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 23, 2021. Ezekiel 37:1-14
Sermon from Pentecost Sunday at Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 23, 2021. Ezekiel 37:1-14
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 16, 2021. John 17:6-19
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 16, 2021. John 17:6-19
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 9, 2021 1 Peter 5:1-11 (NIV) To the Elders and the Flock 5 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. 5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 9, 2021 1 Peter 5:1-11 (NIV) To the Elders and the Flock 5 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. 5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 2, 2021 On His Way Rejoicing Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” 30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, May 2, 2021 On His Way Rejoicing Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” 30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, April 18th, 2021. Eating with Ghosts Luke 24:36b-48 Theme: Jesus meets His scared disciples with an invitation to fellowship. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. (Luke 24:41-45)
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, April 18th, 2021. Eating with Ghosts Luke 24:36b-48 Theme: Jesus meets His scared disciples with an invitation to fellowship. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. (Luke 24:41-45)
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, April 11th, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, April 11th, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Mar 28, 2021. Palm Sunday Mark 11:1-11
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Mar 28, 2021. Palm Sunday Mark 11:1-11
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Mar 21, 2021. John 12:20-33
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, March 7, 2021. John 2:13-22 (NIV)Jesus Clears the Temple Courts 13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” 18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Feb 28, 2021 Mind the Gap Mark 8:31-38 Theme: Jesus is God with us, the God who comes close to us. But at crucial moments, Jesus is also at a great distance from us. Jesus reveals God to us but also shows the difference between God and us. Sometimes Jesus stands against us. Jesus is God’s great bridge to us. He’s also God’s great distance from us. There is a gap between God and us. That gap has a face, a name: Jesus. Discipleship is risking that gap so that we might be brought close to the true, untamed, living God.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Feb 21, 2021. Looking for Rainbows Genesis 9:8-17 Genesis 9:8-17 (NIV) 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” 17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, February 7, 2021 Mark 1:29-39 (NIV) Jesus Heals Many 29 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. 31 So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. 32 That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed. 33 The whole town gathered at the door, 34 and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was. Jesus Prays in a Solitary Place 35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. 36 Simon and his companions went to look for him, 37 and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!” 38 Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” 39 So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, January 31, 2021 Mark 1:21-28 (NIV) Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit 21 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, 24 “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” 25 “Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!” 26 The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. 27 The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.” 28 News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.
Follow Me - Sermon from Sunday, Jan 24, 2021 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 (NIV) Jonah Goes to Nineveh 3 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” 3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, Dec 24, 2020. The Joy of Christmas Luke 2:1-20
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, December 20, 2020. Fourth Sunday of Advent The Subjunctive Space Luke 1:26-38 Theme: Plot twist! Elizabeth and Mary see the possibilities of what God can do. “And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing is impossible for God.” (Luke 1:36-37)
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, December 6, 2020. Second Sunday of Advent Baptismal Limitations Mark 1:1-8 Theme: John the Baptist’s limitations set him up to play an important role in Jesus’ story. “John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” (Mark 1:4-5)
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, November 29, 2020 Advent 1 Stay Tuned! Mark 13:24-37 Theme: Something big is coming – watch and wait! “Therefore, keep awake – for you don’t know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you, I say to all: Keep awake.” (Mark 13:35-37)
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, Nov 22, 2020. Thanksgiving isn't just a one day event, it's what Christians have everyday in their lives! Ephesians 1:15-23
Matthew 25:14-30 (The Parable of the Talents) Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, November 15, 2020.
1 John 3:1-3 All Saints Sunday Who am I? A question that defines us all.
Sermon from Hooker/Tyrone UMC, Sunday, October 4, 2020. Philippians 3:4b-14
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost The Parable of Two Sons Matthew 21:23-32
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost How Can We Forgive? Matthew 18:21-35
Proper 16 Who Do You Say That I Am? Matthew 16:13-20
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Water Walkers Matthew 14:22-36 Mark Twain tells this story: A man visited the Holy Land and stayed in Capernaum. It was a moonlit night, so he decided to take his wife on a romantic boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. Twain asked a man in a rowboat how much he’d charge to take them out on the water. The man saw Twain’s white suit, white shoes, and white hat and supposed he was a rich Texan. So, he said the cost would be twenty-five dollars. Twain walked away as he said, “Now I know why Jesus walked.”
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost You Give Them Something to Eat Matthew 14: 13-21
Eighth Sunday After Pentecost Looking for God in All the Wrong Places Matthew 13:31-33,44-52
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost Pulling Weeds Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost It’s Not About You Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Celebrating Interdependence Day Galatians 5:1; 13-26
Third Sunday After Pentecost Loving Jesus Best Matthew 10:24-39
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