Monthly Archives: July, 2014

July 27, 2014, Pentecost 7 – The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like a Man Who Fell in Love

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July 20, 2014, Pentecost 6 – The Patient Farmer

To listen to this sermon, click here: 140120_001 This week almost three hundred people, traveling on a commercial airline, were killed when someone shot the plane down with a surface-to-air missile as it passed over the Ukraine. Violence between Palestine and Israel made the news every single day, but the media seem to have grown …

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July 13, 2014, Pentecost 5 – Life in the Dirt

To listen to this sermon, click here: 140113_001 The disciples asked Jesus once, “Why do you always speak to the people in parables?” And Jesus answered them in his typical, maddeningly cryptic way, “I speak to them in parables because they see, but they don’t really see, and they hear, but they don’t hear or …

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July 6, 2014, Pentecost 4 – The Voice in the Marketplace

140106_001 Our next-door neighbor was hosting a Fourth-of-July get-together yesterday, which we were able to enjoy vicariously through our open windows. Our two little neighbor girls, who are very nice girls, were joined by a whole bunch of their friends, and they sounded like they were having a blast – they had a trampoline and …

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