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Sunday Sermons
by Dr. Thomas McGrath

 



1 We apologize for the poor recording of these vocal selections.

2 The services on September 2 and 9 were unfortunately not recorded so are not available here.

3 "Song of Hope", by Andrew Walker, was written for and dedicated to Hope Presbyterian Church in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the church.

 
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Date Sermon Title Scripture Special Music

2 -Week Series:  
Prayer

August 10, 2008 Pray II John 8:31-32 "Trust"
Trio by Polly Burkhart, Florence Davis, Ada Gribble
August 3, 2008 Pray Matthew 6:9-13 "Meditation from Thais"
Instrumental solo by Laura Greenberg
July 27, 2008 Things I Wish Jesus Hadn't Said 1 Corinthians 4:1-4 "Steal Away To Heaven"
Solo by Ron Hatley
July 20, 2008 The Gift of Endurance Matthew 6:34 "Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
Solo by David Carmichael
July 13, 2008 The Gift of Perspective 1 Corinthians 4:1-4 "Amazing Grace"
Solo by PeggyAnn White
July 6, 2008 One Nation Under God Luke 20:19-26 "Let Freedom Ring"
Instrumental Solo by Phillip Lioi
June 29, 2008 Prophetic Hindsight
Guest Speaker:
  Miss Debra Musgrave
Psalm 13
Jeremiah 28
"Softly and Tenderly"
Solo by Blake Sullivan
June 22, 2008 What If Once In a Long, Long Time, or Once In a Lifetime, For One Timeless Moment, You Could Golf Like Tiger Woods? John 14:8-12 "You Raise Me Up"
Solo by Ruby Massey
June 15, 2008 Zebedee and Sons Matthew 4:18-22 "He's Daddy To Me"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
June 8, 2008 Invisible Hebrews 11:1-3 "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands"
Instrumental Duet by Ada Gribble and Phillip Lioi
June 1, 2008 A Proton is a Composite Particle Composed of Three Quarks Bound Together by Gluons. Electrons and Positrons, on the Other Hand, are Fundamental Particles. Genesis 1:1-4 "Just As I Am"
Solo by Barry Porter
May 25, 2008 Have an Old-Fashioned Memorial Day Hebrews 12:1-2 "Come, Holy Spirit, Like the Wind"
Chancel Choir
May 18, 2008 Goofy Stuff Matthew 10:16 "All Hail the Power"
Bells of Hope and Chancel Choir
"Holy, Holy, Holy"
Bells of Hope
May 11, 2008 Mary, the Mother of Jesus Luke 1:46-56 "The First Song of Isaiah"
Chancel Choir and Voices of Hope
"Just One Person"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
May 4, 2008 The Difference Between a Tunnel and a Cave 1 Samuel 13:5-6 "For Fifty Years"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
"Surely the Presence of the Lord Is In This Place"
Chancel Choir
April 27, 2008 You Bet Your Life John 15:12-15 "The Quiet Heart"
Solo by Barry Porter
"In My Father's House"
Chancel Choir
50th Anniversary of Hope Church
April 20, 2008
Look Both Ways
Guest Speaker:
  Dr. Gerry Tyer, Executive
  Presbyter of the
  Presbytery of Tampa Bay

 

Genesis 9:12-16
Jude 1:20-25
"O Worship The King"
"In Remembrance Of Me"
Duets by Cynthia Clawson and Bruce Greer
"Variation on a Hymn Tune"
Piano solo by Bruce Greer
"Look To the Rainbow & Softly and Tenderly"
Solo by Cynthia Clawson, accompanied by Bruce Greer
"Within These Walls"
Chancel Choir
April 13, 2008 An Appointment We Make With Ourselves Joshua 4:19-24 "May Jesus Christ Be Praised"
Hope's 50th Anniversary Reunion Choir, accompanied by the Winter Haven High School Symphonic Brass Quartet
April 6, 2008 Mythbusters Matthew 28:11-19 "Do Lord"
Bells of Hope
3 "Song of Hope"
Chancel Choir
March 30, 2007 A Concert of Thanksgiving and Praise:  Organ and Violin Concert
presented by Drs. David Isele and Libor Ondras
  Introduction of special musical artists by Ron Hatley
  Fanfare Toccata, by Isele
  Where Quiet Waters Flow, by Southbridge
  Arioso, by Bach
  A Festive Trumpet Tune, by Martin
  Postlude for the Office of Compline, by Alain
  Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by Bach
  Toccata, by Carnelvali
  Sonata in C Minor, Opus 2, No. 8, by Veracini
  Intermezzo, by Mascagni
  Choral, Revelation, Intercession, and Toccata, by Isele
  Ave Maria, Schubert
March 23, 2008 Easter After Noon Luke 24:13-35 "Hark, Ten Thousand Harps and Voices"
Chancel Choir
"Trilogy for Easter"
Bells of Hope

5-Week Series:  
Places Jesus Stopped On His Way to the Cross

March 16, 2008 Gethsemane, on the Mount of Olives Luke 22:39-46 "Thy Will Be Done"
Chancel Choir
March 9, 2008 The Temple Matthew 21:12-14 "Grateful"
Solo by Barry Porter
"Here I Am, Lord"
Chancel Choir
"Not Too Far From Here"
Solo by Ruby Massey
March 2, 2008 The Upper Room Luke 22:7-16 "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
Chancel Choir
February 24, 2008 Bethany Near Jerusalem John 11:1-19 "I Need Thee Every Hour"
Chancel Choir
February 17, 2008 Bethany Beyond the Jordan John 10:40-42 "My Lord, What a Morning"
Chancel Choir
February 10, 2008 Leaving Jericho Mark 10:46-58 "A Prayer of Grateful Praise"
Chancel Choir with
Violin accompaniment by Laura Greenberg

2 -Week Series:  
Nine Unconscious Mistakes of Nice People

February 3, 2008 Nine Unconscious Mistakes of Nice People (Part 2) John 8:31-32 "Lord You Are Here"
Solo by Barry Porter
"If You Search With All Your Heart"
Chancel Choir
January 27, 2008 Nine Unconscious Mistakes of Nice People (Part 1) 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 "O Lord Most Holy"
Chancel Choir
January 20, 2008 A Time To Heal Ecclesiastes 3:1-9 "Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us"
"Amazing Grace"
Bells of Hope
January 13, 2008 The Latter Glory of this House Haggai 2:1-9 "O How Amiable"
Chancel Choir
January 6, 2008 Road Trip
Guest Speaker:
  Miss Debra Musgrave
Matthew 2:1-12
Ephesians 3:1-12
"This Is Love"
Chancel Choir
December 30, 2007 Why Incarnation?
Guest Speaker:
  Mrs. Cecelia Moore
John 1:1-14 "Holy Child
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
"Christmas Lullaby"
Chancel Choir
December 23, 2007 4 N2 UZ 8rn 2dy / ct o D8vd a S8r Whz x/t Lrd :-) John 1:4-14 "Infant Holy"
Chancel Choir
"The Lord's Prayer"
Solo by Barry Porter
December 16, 2007 Holy Night of Miracles
Christmas Cantata presented by the Chancel Choir 
Narration by Dennis Davis, Solos performed by Barry Porter, Martha Widener, 
   and David Carmichael
December 9, 2007 The Gift-Bearers Matthew 2:1-12 "Gesu Bambino"
Solo by David Carmichael
"Bring Us Peace"
Chancel Choir and Youth Choir
December 2, 2007 Hope Luke 1:39-49 "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"
Bells of Hope
"Carol for Advent"
Chancel Choir
November 25, 2007 The God of New Beginnings 2 Corinthians 5:16-19 "Crown Him With Many Crowns"
Chancel Choir
November 18, 2007 It Was Kind of You to Share My Trouble Philippians 4:10-23 "With All My Heart"
Chancel Choir 
November 11, 2007 I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, "Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord" Psalm 122 "Rejoice, the Lord is King"
Chancel Choir and Bells of Hope
"Within These Walls"
Chancel Choir 
November 4, 2007 Go Deeper Luke 5:1-11 "Sarabande"
Cello Solo by Derek Menchan
October 28, 2007 When You Have Responsibility for the Lives of Others Matthew 7:7-12 "Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
1 Chancel Choir 
October 21, 2007 The God Whose Name is "No Human Word Can Ever Fully Name Me" Exodus 3:1-14 "The Story of a Lovely Thing"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
October 14, 2007 October and the Majesty of God Isaiah 55:6-13 "Ville du Havre"
Instrumental Solo by Phillip Lioi
October 7, 2007 What If? Hebrews 11:1-3 "Blessed Be the Name"
Instrumental Duet by Ada Gribble and Phillip Lioi
September 30, 2007 When What We Think We Know About Prayer Does Not Work With What We Think We Know About God... and Vice Versa Romans 8:26-28 "I Am Only One"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
September 23, 2007 God Waits Isaiah 30:15-18 "Thee Will I Love"
1 Chancel Choir 
2 September 16, 2007 Abram's Answer Genesis 12:1-4 "Teach Me Your Ways"
1 Chancel Choir 
August 26, 2007 Forgive? (Part 2) Luke 7:36-50 "There Is a Heavenly Place"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
August 19, 2007 Forgive? (Part 1) Exodus 21:22-25 "Blessed Assurance"
Trio by Polly Burkhart, Florence Davis, and Ada Gribble
August 5, 2007 A Wonderful Obsession
Guest Speaker:
  Rev. Michael Seely
Hosea 11:1-11 "There Is A Balm in Gilead"
1 Solo by Ron Hatley

5-Week Series:  
The Often Unbelievable and Nearly Always Excellent Adventures of Paul the Amazing Apostle

August 12, 2007 The Athenian Ascendancy Acts 17:16-28 "I Love To Dwell In Spirit"
Solo by Carolyn Wheeler
July 29, 2007 Surfing at Malta Acts 27:39 - 28:1 "Touching God"
Solo by Jacquie Hawkins
July 22, 2007 The Jerusalem Conspiracy Acts 23:11-24 "A Quiet Heart"
Solo by Carolyn Wheeler
July 15, 2007 The Lycaonian Reversal Acts 14:11-19 "Because He Lives"
Solo by David Calhoun 
July 8, 2007 The Jailer Converted Acts 16:25-34 "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands"
Instrumental Duet by Ada Gribble and Phillip Lioi
July 1, 2007 Was Jesus A Motivational Speaker? Mark 12:35-37 "God Bless America"
Solo by Barry Porter