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Sermon: For the Love of Joseph
“It Takes a Village: For the Love of Joseph” (December 6, 2015) Joseph makes a radical decision, when her learned of her alleged infidelity, first to divorce Mary quietly, and then not to divorce her...
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Sermon: Hope Unexpected
“Hope Unexpected” (December 13, 2015) Mary and Elizabeth, two people who each failed at their one job (to provide their husbands with sons, of course), are perhaps in the best position to grasp and...
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Sermon: Reflect Your Belovedness
“Reflect Your Belovedness” (Jan 10, 2016) If what we believe about ourselves is reflected out into the world, what would it be like if we truly believed that we were beloved children of God? (Luke...
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Sermon: Find the Meeting Places
“Find the Meeting Places” (January 17, 2016) Jesus calls the disciples to step out of their comfort zones, yes, but not to do something totally alien to them– for a group of people who know fishing, he...
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Sermon: Whatever Forms
“Whatever Forms” (January 24, 2106) One part of our baptismal and membership vow as members of the Methodist Church is to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present...
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Sermon: Live By Love
“Live By Love” (January 31, 2016) What does it mean to define ourselves around the love of Jesus? Can we be formed into a new community, and a new family in Christ? (Luke 8:16-21)
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Sermon: Go Beyond
“Go Beyond” (February 7, 2016) The revelation of Jesus being *more* in the moment of the transfiguration roots and grounds us in the calling to go beyond in living out our faith. Truly, it is not...
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Sermon: Poured Out (introduction)
“Poured Out” (February 14, 2016) As we enter Lent, we prepare to receive God’s great gift of presence, poured out for us. This Lent, we will use the lens of many elements poured out and hear the...
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Sermon: Glimpses of Mortality
“Glimpses of Mortality” (February 21, 2016) When a woman, sometimes named as Mary, and sometimes without a name, anoints Jesus with oil, she reveals many things about Jesus himself. Her own act,...
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Sermon: Are You (really) Going to Wash My Feet?
“Are You (really) Going to Wash My Feet?” (February 28, 2016) Peter does not want to see Jesus humble himself to the status of servant or slave and wash the feet of the disciples. But Jesus teaches...
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Sermon: A Bitter Cup
“A Bitter Cup” (March 6, 2016) Judas’ betrayal of Jesus casts him as one of the greatest villains of all time. But even out of betrayal and suffering, and death itself, God is able to work...
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Sermon: Redeeming Blood
“Redeeming Blood” (March 13, 2016) I’ve never been comfortable with embracing the blood and suffering of Jesus’ death, not because I’m squeamish, but because I don’t like what that says about God. But...
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Sermon: A Time for Tears
“A Time for Tears” (March 20, 2016) When Mary weeps for Jesus, or when Jesus himself weeps, we see a sort of human vulnerability that we can lose track of when it comes to Jesus. Will you let the story...
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Sermon: Gather Each One
“Gather Each One” (September 11, 2016) The movement of swing is a comfortable one for me, an easy, going-with-the-flow energy that is focused on how we are in relationship with God and one another....
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Sermon: A Song in Every Silence
“A Song in Every Silence” (September 25, 2016) The energy of Hang is an unusual one in our contemporary society– that energy of seeking peace and rest, being calm in one’s self. Although perhaps hard...
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Sermon: I Wanna Be Reaching Out
“I Wanna Be Reaching Out” (November 13, 2016) Poet, singer, and songwriter Leonard Cohen reminds us: “there is a crack in everything; that’s how the light comes in.” We see in our community, our...
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Sermon: Reclaiming Tradition
“Reclaiming Tradition” (November 27, 2016) When King Josiah and his people discovered the Word of God, buried in the Temple, they knew it was time to recommit to the faith of the past. Sometime, the...
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Sermon: The Only Constant
“The Only Constant” (December 4, 2016) During the time of the Prophet Isaiah and the time of John the Baptist, the people heard a voice crying out to prepare God’s way. Maybe it’s not that this voice,...
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Sermon: Flip the Switch
“Flip the Switch” (January 8, 2017) Just as the dark and cold of the winter season can cause our bodies to feel sluggish, isolated, and even depressed, being disconnected from God causes a kind of...
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Sermon: Charms to Soothe
“Charms to Soothe” (January 15, 2017) Music can lift our mood, center us or grab our attention, and convey the deep range of emotion of the human experience. Is it possible that Jesus, who embodied...
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