Sermons

Granular Power

October 04, 2020
Psalm 19; Matthew 21:33-44
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Today on World Communion Sunday, people across the globe break bread together. Around the world Christians eat the bread of Christ together. This small sign of unity seems, to me, […]

What Is This?!

September 20, 2020
Exodus 16:2-15; Matthew 20:1-16
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“In country town or city, some people can be found – who spend their lives in grumbling at everything around, oh yes, they always grumble no matter what they say, […]

Just Love

September 13, 2020
Matthew 18:15-22; Romans 13:8-10
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In these days when facts are untrue and laws are unjust, these words from Romans 13 are exactly what we need. They are a reminder of how basic our faith […]

Holy Ground

August 30, 2020
Exodus 3:1-15
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Moses does not have an easy life, at least from the little information we get from the biblical text. Sure, he grows up in the palace but only after being […]

Trauma & Transformation

August 16, 2020
Genesis 45:1-15
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Many of you know that I am really into board games. As part of my interest in board games I sometimes listen to podcasts about games and gaming. On one […]

Walking In Storms

August 09, 2020
Matthew 14:22—33; Matthew 8:23-27; Psalm 85:8-13
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We had just finished passing out the bread and fish, we couldn’t believe there was enough. We were counting twelve baskets of leftovers when Jesus said we should get in […]

How Long, O God: Psalms of Lament

June 28, 2020
Psalm 13; Psalm 58
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I love our heady, intellectual congregation, – and I love that there is room for the criers, as they call themselves, the people that admit to getting emotional in church. […]

A Voiceless Voice

June 21, 2020
Psalm 19
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It feels fitting that right after Solstice, the longest day of the year – we start a 6 week series focused on the longest book of the Bible by chapter […]

The Holy Trinity

June 07, 2020
Psalm 8; Matthew 28:16-20; II Corinthians 13:11-13; Romans 12:9-16b
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Today is Trinity Sunday which, for the Christ-centered, look-to-the-bible Anabaptist tradition, is kind of tricky. Because the trinity doesn’t really appear in the bible. Okay, it is in the passage […]

Recognizing The Paraclete

May 24, 2020
John 14:15-21
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This beautiful passage from John feels ethereal and mystical – love and comfort and the Spirit of truth, “the world neither sees her nor recognizes her; but you can recognize […]