Sermons

Reflecting on the JourneyThe church “is” to proclaim and administer god’s love! Why church? Why this church? This congregation? Granted, if it weren’t here, I’d have to find another job. Find another way of making a living. Of making a…
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Acts 10. 34-43Unlike the chicken and the egg, we know the cause …god’s love for everything! Growing up, I’d always thought it was more a game, a joke, than anything. A question that, simply, had no answer. “What came first,…
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Ephesians 1. 3-14The beginning, middle, and end of believing is god’s grace! The bible’s a messy place in which to be tromping around! Written at different times, by different people, in different places. The scriptures don’t always share a common…
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Hebrews 2. 10-18Community is a gift that comes from beyond ourselves. All I can say is that it’s been one helluva year … in every sense of the word. An outer darkness, gnashing of teeth kind of thing. As a…
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Luke 2. 1-14God calls us to share Christ’s ventures and Christ’s paths and Christ’s perils! For a month, now, we’ve been getting ready for this moment. Or rather, god’s been getting us ready. Each Sunday, we’ve heard the gospel proclaimed,…
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Romans 1. 1-7Bottom-line, the gospel is, “God loves” …period, exclamation mark, end of sentence! Romans. Chapter one. Verses one through seven. That’s the Second Reading for this morning. Seven verses. A hundred and twenty-nine words. And, if you noticed, just…
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Reflecting on the JourneyThe church, as well, is “conceived by the Spirit and born of the virgin!” The longer I do this – the preaching, the administering – the simpler it becomes! God loves us! Loves all of us! Period!…
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Matthew 3. 1-12Faith is rooted in love, not fear! Every year, it’s, pretty much, the same old thing. An advent tradition, you could say. Every second Sunday of the season, we read a passage about John the Baptizer, about his…
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Matthew 24. 36-44Advent is a time for promise and hope! by Gretchen Shults, deaconess Some years ago, as we were dusting the sanctuary, getting ready for Advent, someone said, “I wish we could put all the poinsettias out, now, like…
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Luke 23. 33-43The kingdom comes and the king appears …at the cross! Well, this is it! This is the day! The destination … the culmination … the reason for the entire church year! For the past fifty-one weeks, we’ve been…
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