Sermons

That All May Be One

May 13, 2018
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; John 17:6-25
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Introduction: During the past week, as I’ve read the John text for this Sunday, I’ve frequently been reminded of one of my favorite lines from the film National Treasure. After […]

Love, Life, and Laying It Down

May 06, 2018
John 15:9-17; I John 5:1-7
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Last week we heard some verses from I John about love. Today the lectionary gives us more love in I John and John. While Love is foundational to faith, it […]

Trusting Doubt

April 08, 2018
John 20:19-31; Act 4:32-37 (5:1-11)
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Today is the Sunday after Easter but this great Thomas story begins last Sunday evening. And the story the disciples tell the absent Thomas is pretty incredible. They are hiding, […]

Two Disciples and a Mary Walk Into a Graveyard . . .

April 01, 2018
Isaiah 25:6-9; John 20:1-18
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Christ is risen! [Christ is risen, indeed] Alleluia! What a day, eh?! I mean Easter is always a cause for joy and celebration but, as a celebration that moves around […]

The Jesus Koans

March 18, 2018
Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 12:20-33
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During Lent, our theme of covenant has taken us in various directions. Michelle shared the Jeremiah text with the children in Children’s Church. Michelle showed them how you can write […]

Create Covenant

February 18, 2018
Genesis 9:8-17; Mark 1:9-15
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Good morning friends. It seems hard to start right in on covenant when a broken covenant is the elephant in the room. This country is reeling from yet one more […]

A Word of Hope for Grasshoppers and Exiles

February 04, 2018
Isaiah 40:21-31
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Isaiah 40:21-31 21Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It is […]

Holy Sight

January 28, 2018
Psalm 111; Mark 1:21-28
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This week finds us still in the liturgical season of Epiphany. Epiphany begins the week after Christmas and is traditionally celebrates the visit of the wise ones to the young […]

Call and Response

January 14, 2018
I Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20); John 1:43-51; Psalm 139
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Call. It is a word that I used to dread, especially in seminary. It was expected that we understood our call, that we could explain our call. I wasn’t even […]

The Vulnerability of the Magnificat

December 24, 2017
Luke 1:26-38, 46-55
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I love Mary’s Magnificat. Bach’s setting is a particular favorite, though one might ponder how the short song of a “humble servant of God” ends up as a glorious half […]