Weekly Sermons
September 15, 2011
And, indeed, we come here, on this day, ten years later, on this Homecoming Sunday, seeking the same; seeking the Source, the Source of all we need; the One from whom all blessing flow. We come here, we come home, because, if left to our own devices, we are like the slave who has been forgiven the 10,000 talents. If left merely to our own human nature, it is just too easy for us to harbor wrongs, and to let those wrongs embitter us, and, in turn, poison our lives.
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September 04, 2011
Where there are human beings, there will be conflict. And where there is conflict, we have our work laid before us; the work of reconciliation, which we have inherited from the saints, from the disciples, and from Jesus himself. The work of reconciliation.
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August 07, 2011
We construct the most buoyant boat we can with the finest infrastructure we know how to build. We hope and pray that this boat can weather the waves and winds of economic woe and political posturing out there. We crowd into the boat on Sunday mornings and hope for roughly an hour to “float above it all.” But, as our gospel passage this morning reminds us, Jesus is not currently in our boat. He is in the world out there in forms that at first glance might frighten us, like a ghost walking upon the sea.
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July 24, 2011
As we learn the stories of how the gospel is being lived out in other parts of the world, it is my hope that we will be encouraged and filled with gratitude whatever our circumstances. These stories of our brothers and sisters remind us not to buy into the rhetoric of a culture of scarcity. These stories remind us that we serve a Jesus of twelve baskets left over.
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July 17, 2011
The vision Paul lays before us is indeed tikkun olam, a holistic, all-encompassing, cosmic hope of unity; a spiritual, social, political, environmental vision, a total vision of the world made right, with God’s children at center stage, as change agents, for the sake of everyone and everything, as we participate in God’s repairing of the world.
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July 10, 2011
And as God’s Word breaks in among us to free us from our long imposed exile, take a moment to feel the fullness and vitality of God’s Word leading us out from this church with joy and back into our City with peace.
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July 03, 2011
Paul recognizes that freedom cannot mean, “I am free to do as I choose.” Rather true freedom is found in a different kind of bondage, being bound through grace to Jesus Christ, and it is here where Paul finds his purpose, his joy.
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June 26, 2011
Paul, the one whom we remember every time we speak the name of our church; he urges us to let our very lives give expression to the Life [capital “L”] that God has put in us.
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June 19, 2011
... like Thomas, in our own way, we too are called to surrender our lives, to surrender our lives for the sake of the Gospel, for the sake of love, for the sake of non-violence. Each day, even many times a day, in little ways, and in not-so little ways, as we choose love over violence…
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June 12, 2011
Pentecost may have been a one-of-a-kind experience, but it was not a once and for all event. In the scrapbook of Christian beginnings, it is more than a nostalgic snapshot that we pull out each year to warm our hearts over. It is a new beginning for us as well, each time we celebrate and remember and go forth in Pentecostal power to preach the Good News in the world in Christ’s stead.
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