Monthly Archives: February, 2015

February 22, 2015, Lent 1 – Resistance Is Not Futile

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110702_001 It is a very important and awesome thing to contemplate the full meaning of the Incarnation – what it really means to us that God had skin and bones and blood, that he ate and drank, that he got tired and had to sleep, that he got …

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February 18, 2015, Ash Wednesday – Holy Selfishness

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110629_001 It is a common misunderstanding that being religious, or being spiritual, or just being a good person, is all about being unselfish – by which we mean that it’s all about being kind of mean to yourself, denying yourself things that you really like or really want, …

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February 15, 2015, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to … Life

To listen to this sermon, click here:  110625_001 Jesus took Peter and James and John, the core group of his small circle of disciples, up onto a mountaintop to be his witnesses when he was revealed in his glory – when he sort of set aside the cloak of his humanity for a moment, and …

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February 8, 2015 – Epiphany 5 – Restoring the One Love

Unfortunately there is no recording available for this sermon. My son Isaac and his wife, Christina, have moved into a boat – a 32 foot sailing boat named the “One Love”, where they have been living with their 3-year-old daughter Sofia and a few cats and dogs. It’s a beautiful boat, with very nice woodwork …

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February 1, 2015 – Something New

To listen to this sermon, click here:  110611_001 After Jesus had called Peter and Andrew and James and John, they all went into the fishing village of Capernaum, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and Jesus preached a sermon. And besides that, he also cast an unclean spirit out of a …

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