Monthly Archives: September, 2014

September 28, 2014, Pentecost 16 – Instructed Eucharist

The service today was an instructed eucharist, so there was no sermon. Instead Mtr. Kathryn spent some time introducing the various parts of the worship and explaining the symbolism involved. To hear her teaching and the whole service – except for the hymns – click here: 110205_001

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September 21, 2014, Pentecost 15 – The New Physics of Generosity

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110129_001 About five hundred years ago, a mathematician and astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus caused quite a commotion by proposing a radical idea – that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth like everyone thought – but that the earth travels its orbit along with all the other planets …

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September 14, 2014, Pentecost 14 – Forgiveness: A God’s Eye View

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110122_001 When we had our little farm, we got an aerial photograph of it from the US Geological Survey agency that does mapping. It was amazing to see our familiar farm from a completely new perspective. Sizes and relationships were very different from what they looked at ground …

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September 7, 2014, Pentecost 13 – Inquisition or Rescue Mission?

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110115_001 Some of us here in this room today might be old enough to remember August 6, 1945, when the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped a five ton bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for the purpose of bringing an end at last to …

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