Rev. Nelson Richardson Mercer

A Life in the Ministry

Career Sermon Titles of Dr. Nelson Mercer

 1965

  Central United Church, Calgary, Alberta
     

Jan. 3

  The Good Shepherd - a sermon for the beginning of the year
   

Jan. 10

  Door of Opportunity
  The Volunteer - Isaiah
 

Jan. 17

  Jephthah's Daughter - the story of a woman's courage
 

Jan. 24

  I Believe in God the Father
  The Fighting Farmer - Gideon
 

Jan. 31

  Getting the Most out of Life
  Playing to Win
 

Feb. 7

  I Believe in Jesus Christ - sermons on the Christian Faith
 

Feb. 14

  The Jews
  Did Jesus Still a Storm? - Can a modern believe in miracles?
 

Feb. 28

  Christian Influence
 

March 7

  The Call to Discipleship
  The Labourer in the Vineyard - what is the meaning of this strange parable in which the last go to work and are paid as much as the the first are paid at the beginning?
 

March 14

  Upsetting the Applecart
  Delinquency in the Sixies - once we said juvenile delinquency was rooted in poverty. Today is it boredom? Why boredom?
 

March 28

  Monday Christians
  Suffering and the Christian Faith
 

April 4

  Love Overcoming Death
  Citizens of Two Worlds
 

April 11

  The King Nobody Wanted
  The Meaning of the Cross
 

April 18

  The Christian Hope
 

April 25

  The Greatest Story Ever Told
 

May 2

  How God Takes the Initiative
  The Man with a Haunted House
 

May 9

  The Fifth Commandment
 

May 16

  Taking All Things in Stride
 

May 30

  The Church and Beverage Alcohol - a new look at Christian responsibilites
God's Wrestling - And Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day"
 

June 6

  Grace Abounding
 

June 13

  The United Church and the Anglicans - Are we nearer to union than 20 years ago? How important is union anyway?
 

June 20

  Sustained and Nutured
 

June 27

  O Canada
 

July 4

  Grace and the Life of Faith
  Steps out of Anxiety

Sept. 5

  Is God to be Found in the City?
  Living your religion on the job
 

Sept. 12

  Christian Unity
  The Story of St. Paul
 

Sept. 19

  Advancement Through Adversity
  Feeding the Multitude - a miraculous story that speak to our time
 

Sept. 26

  The Form of a Servant
  Why is God Hidden from us?
 

Oct. 3

  Christian Fellowship
  The Dander of Being Good
 

Oct. 10

  The Blessings of our Earthly Life
  The Dynamic For Goodness
 

Oct. 17

  Friendship at its best
 

Oct. 24

  Take Mission for Instance
 

Oct. 31

  What is the Church doing?
  The Happy Giver
 

Nov. 7

  Called to be Peacemakers
  Can We Still Speak of Heaven?
 

Nov. 14

  By What Authority?
 

Nov. 21

  The Noblest Work of God
  Breaking Jail
 

Nov. 28

  Why Christ Came
  How God Prepared for Christmas
   

Dec. 5

  So Why Go to Church?
 

Dec. 12

  By This Sign
  The Miracle of Christmas
     

Dec. 19

  When the World is Young
   

 Dec. 26

  The Lord is Come
  Rebirth or Renewal


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(p) 13 April 2001