Mary and Martha ~ Luke 10: 38-42
Sunday, July 15th, 2018Today’s sermon begins just before the 25 minute mark. Let’s start this sermon with a little audience participation. Here’s the question: having listened to our Scripture reading with whom do you most identify? Who here is Team Mary? Who here is Team Martha?
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Leading Together ~ 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26; John 21: 15-17
Sunday, April 15th, 2018Highlights from this Sunday’s worship audio recording include the Sine Nomine’s Zulu Choral Introit We Sing Praise, O God accompanied by Chris Vandal on percussion at around 4:30 and their jazz anthem Listen at around 11:30, John Dugard’s entertaining and encouraging words on leadership and serving as a Deacon at 14:15, and the Come Thou Font offertory […]
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Starlight ~ Isaiah 60: 1-6; Matthew 2: 1-12
Sunday, January 8th, 2017I saw the new Star Wars movie “Rogue One” over the holidays. If you are into those kind of movies, I recommend it. It’s the mythic battle of good vs. evil Just when the powers of the “dark side” seem certain to win, a person arises whose power and light confounds the darkness. In this […]
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Back in Business ~ Luke 7: 11-17
Sunday, June 5th, 2016I don’t doubt for a moment that Jesus brought the son of the widow of Nain back to life. Jesus was reported to be a wonder worker, a healer – and the gospels relate several occasions when Jesus brought a dead person back to life. After all, our Christian faith’s foundation is resurrection.
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Who Knew? ~ 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17
Sunday, June 14th, 2015Dr. Walter Brueggemann was our guest preacher today, encouraging us to engage in a ministry of reconciliation that refuses social differentiations based on bias and habit and stereotypes, to refuse to regard others from a human point of view, but instead see people as they are and not as they are said to be.
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Wrongful Assumptions ~ Matthew 21:1-17
Sunday, April 13th, 2014I think of myself as someone who reads people pretty well. It’s always a good lesson though to be off the mark some times. I was returning home the other evening from Connecticut on a very full flight. I sat down next to a tall, lanky, dark brown-skinned young
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