Sermons
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March 29, 2015, Palm Sunday – The Reading of the Passion.
There was no sermon. Here is a recording of the congregation reading the story of the Passion: 110806_001 Continue reading
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March 22, 2015, Lent 5 – The God Who Gets His Hands Dirty
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110730_001 It is very easy and pleasant to be a gardener in the wintertime. You get to sit by the stove with a cup of tea and look through garden catalogs, and draw… Continue reading
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March 15, 2015, Lent 4 – Living with Fiery Snakes
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110723_001 If you were one of those man-on-the-street reporters, and you went around and asked random people, “How would you describe Christians, what makes a Christian different from other people?” you’d get a… Continue reading
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March 8, 2015, Lent 3 – Beyond Bingo
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110716_001 A church that we attended a long time ago once found itself in a dilemma. We had a wonderful young woman working with our youth group. And this young woman’s mother, who… Continue reading
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March 1, 2015, Lent 2 – Come and Die
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110709_001 There is a scene in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” that is, I think, one of the best bits of acting I have ever seen. I think about it often, though… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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 –… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading