Monthly Archives: February, 2014
February 23, 2014, Epiphany 7 – Becoming Perfect
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130827_001 Today we finish reading the long teaching that we began two weeks ago. Jesus said he had come to fulfill the law completely. But obeying the law isn’t what you’ve been taught, he told them, just following a bunch of rules about what you can or can’t …
February 16, 2014, Epiphany 6 – Choose Life
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130819_001 Carroll and I like to watch detective shows sometimes; they’re very exciting. And I imagine we’ve all had the experience of watching a really exciting episode, and things look really desperate, and then you see the words “to be continued….” This sermon is going to be a …
February 9, 2014, Epiphany 5 – A Call to Compassion
To listen to this sermon click here: 130813_001 The passage from Matthew’s gospel that we just read is part of the teaching we call the “Sermon on the Mount”. Jesus has sat down on the top of a hill to teach, and his disciples, his students, have come and gathered around him to hear him. …
February 2, 2014, Epiphany 4 – Safe in His Arms
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130805_001 Happy are the people whose strength is in you! whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way. When we were young, we, or at least a lot of us, I think, felt like we were pretty much indestructible. We did stupid, foolhardy things and we took risks …
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