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Sermon Date Abstract
09/19/2010We are What (and Whom) We Serve
09/12/2010Lost and Found
06/06/2010Laity Sunday Message from Jerry Godwin of Men of Light
05/16/2010Paul and Silas in Prison and the issue of immigration
05/09/2010Memories of God
05/02/2010Acts of the Holy Spirit
5/17/2009“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you,” if we could only remember one piece of the Bible, for me the reading in John would be a good place to start.
4/12/2009We find the women at the tomb of Jesus, so stunned by what they find there, that they return home without saying anything to anybody.
3/29/2009God loved us before we knew any better, before we were born, and when we baptize people in the faith, this is the love we stand upon. God’s love for us is primary.
3/22/2009When you lay down your life as a grain in the soil, when you let your outer covering fall away, you open up that God-seed inside of you, giving God access to the potential that God placed there, the shape of which even you cannot know, the leaf and fruit of which we will only know once they have sprouted and bloomed.
3/15/2009The people Jesus chased out of the temple represented the financial system that had grown up around the practice of sacrifices to God.
3/8/2009Part of the truth today is that the discipleship Jesus puts before us doesn’t make immediate sense to us.
3/1/2009Lent is a time when we can move out of our insulated cocoon to look at our lives with a new perspective.
2/22/2009We live in a world where we teach our children to have very short attention spans; everything has to move fast and be loud and colorful and entertaining.
2/15/2009Naaman is a big, important guy in the land of Aram, a commander in the army, but he’s got a problem. He has leprosy; probably this was a kind of skin condition, and not the kind that makes body parts fall off.
2/8/2009God is calling the church out into a new place, into a new day, into a new community, into a new way of seeing ourselves.
1/25/2009Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, ‘Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.’
1/18/2009So, how do we hear and respond to the call of God in our lives?
1/11/2009The raw, unruly nature of the Baptizer in the wilderness is our first clue that baptism is not a quaint ritual to celebrate how sweet babies are or how much we love Jesus.
1/4/2009When you’ve been brought low by the circumstances of your life, it makes you different, and it can make you available to Christ in a very important way for the work of healing and reconciliation and peace, the work of reflecting the light of Christ.
12/21/2008The Christmas season may be one of the best times to see clearly the gap between what we really want and what the world around us offers us.
11/30/2008When Advent immediately follows Thanksgiving, as it has this year, it’s always a grinding gearshift in my head. We move from pumpkins to Christmas trees in the space of about 8 hours.
11/23/2008Whether you knew it or not, today is the last day of the year. Today is Christ the King Sunday, the day everything else has led up to, beginning with last Advent.
11/09/2008Matthew 25:1-13
9/28/2008The question is not, “will we change?” It’s, “will our change happen intentionally or by default?”
9/12/2008God hears the cry of God’s people and acts in unimaginable, miraculous ways, doing what looks impossible in order to save the people.
8/17/2008This text always provokes a flurry of debate, mostly centered on the fact that Jesus as much as calls this woman a dog. How could Jesus be so unchristian?
8/3/2008When most of us think of the power of the Holy Spirit or miracles of Christ, we automatically think of material phenomena that cannot be explained by natural means and therefore are attributable to the Holy Spirit.
7/13/2008It’s good news today, brothers and sisters, that God takes an entirely different path, one that may not make a whole lot of sense to us, but one that will be our salvation.
6/1/2008When we serve through the church, it demonstrates the full circle of our identity as people who belong to God and who seek God.
5/18/2008This beautiful story is well-known and cherished among scriptures, with its lofty poetry, the rhythm and repetition that show it was intended to be read aloud.
5/11/2008Way too often, the church is less a crucible and more a chaise lounge. Way too often, the church has assumed the job of making us the same as everyone else, helping us fit in with “decent” folk, changing our outer identity to fit an outer standard.
3/23/2008It’s a progressive revelation of the fact that something very strange has happened—the stone is gone, the body wrappings are lying on the ground, and so is the cloth that covered his head.
3/9/2008Have you ever listened to this story of Lazarus and wondered why it couldn’t have been you who got your loved one back? Have you ever stood at a graveside and searched your mind for a way out of your devastation?
3/2/2008Jesus describes himself as the light of the world, and his healing action as a revelation of the power of God. And that’s an event that folks either have to decide to see or not.
2/17/2008In Genesis 12, we read of God’s plan to make of Abraham a great nation. Two things will be necessary for that plan—land and offspring.
1/20/2008John didn’t know Jesus, according to this scripture, but he had this experience of revelation that showed him who Jesus was, the abiding relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God. John saw this, and he told about it. He witnessed.
1/13/2008It's clear that the Spirit we receive in baptism comes to transform us personally, individually. In Jesus’ baptism, the Spirit came to rest upon Jesus like a dove, and a voice from heaven called him Beloved.
12/24/2007Tonight is the night, the night we celebrate the light coming into the darkness, heaven coming to earth, the unknown becoming known. This is the night of the Incarnation, the revelation of God’s own self to the world.
12/23/2007If there’s a word that sums up the readings for today, this fourth Sunday of Advent, it’s the word, scandal.
11/25/2007Year after year, time and time again it was deemed necessary for the most exalted member of the tribe to be sacrificed to appease the ‘gods’ and to guarantee the continued existence and success of the people.
11/18/2007God sets before us the way things are supposed to be, in the hope that we might choose to take a different road. That choice would us cause us to do something different; it would in fact change our very nature.
11/11/2007“How can God let this happen?” In the really hard times, my question is, “How am I supposed to get through this? Why should I keep trying to find a better place?”
11/4/2007In Paul’s writing and the life of the early church, the word “saint” referred to all Christians. Today in our common usage, a saint is anyone we think acts in a patient, loving way, especially when they have good reason not to.
10/28/2007Didn’t our mamas teach us not to borrow trouble? It’s just common sense, really. Because when we’re borrowing trouble from tomorrow, there’s a whole lot we’re not able to do today.
10/21/2007We have something that is so important to us, that we work so hard for, something that holds such value, and we don’t really talk about it.
9/23/2007Does God ever wish we would put as much effort in our daily walk as we put into our occasional representations of piety?
9/16/2007For a kid to get lost is to lose their very grounding in life. Parents or guardians for children are protection; they are sustenance; and they are identity, making a place where the child can fit into the world.