These are my messages offered to the church in Sunday mornings—about current events, biblical wisdom, and how we try to live as followers of Jesus.
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Brave Space - 04-26-2020
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How are we called to respond to political polarization as Christians? How can moral witness and empathy come together?
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Taking Hold - 04-12-2020
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Resurrection is about the healing of trauma in and through the body.
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What to do with difficult feelings like anger, sadness, despair as people of faith.
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How can the epidemic help us to more fully become the Beloved Community?
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What do we do with that Adam and Eve story?
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On the importance of being vulnerable.
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Guest Sermon - 02-09-2020
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About salt and other things.
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Shoot Me While I’m Happy - 02-02-2020
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The revolution Jesus brought was different than people expected.
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Where are we headed together on Christ’s way?
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Where We Go From Here - 01-19-2020
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What does the Bible challenge us to do and be if we are white people?
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Guest Preacher - 01-12-2020
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What do you do when God turns out to be bigger, and more inclusive, than you thought?
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I Will Meet You There - 01-05-2020
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You think the resurrection is scary? Take a deeper look at the incarnation!
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What if God really does show up in the most desperate circumstances?
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Here’s to Joseph, a righteous man!
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Emmanuel EVERYWHERE - 12-1-2019
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What the end up of days can teach us about ourselves and God.
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How the Light Gets In - 12-8-19
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Coming to terms with our brokenness is how the light gets in.
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About the importance of living in the present.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have the perfect argument that silences those we oppose?Of course, when you think about it, the argument that leaves people gasping for words is really a thing of fantasy. In any dispute there is always a comeback. In fact, the notion that argument alone can sway somebody is sort of a dream in general. With most people, by th…
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Odd, Archaic, and Even...Relevant - 11-10-2019
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If the day of judgment makes sense to you, that’s totally cool. But I’ve always had trouble with this idea that there will come some moment in the future when we who were faithful in life will spring from our graves and occupy a new earth with Jesus and God and all the saints. It seems a bit literalistic—like one more among many ideas and tradition…
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The promise of All Saints' day, captured in the John O’Donohue poem we read, is that those we've loved are here in some metaphysical way as well--a cloud of saints who have entered into joy, watching and praying for us on our own way there. I always think of the "cloud of witnesses" passage in Hebrews 12, which is oddly never assigned on All Saints…
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Naaman's Journey - 10-13-19
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It’s such a paradox to discover that your place in the world is so small, and that God is so immense, and yet to find this discovery strangely invigorating and joyful. It reminded me of a time soon after my own conversion experience, when I was so abundantly happy. The world seemed to be opening up to me in new ways, and I was full of energy and ze…
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If we listen carefully, if we pay close attention, the animals who accompany us in our lives have much to teach us about what God wants for us: An open, loving approach to the world. An ability to live in the present moment and let God provide. The utter rightness and wholeness of being in relationship. Healing. Faithfulness. How to be the people o…
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Dave the Rich Man - 09-29-19
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Imagine this: you are driving through an upscale neighborhood somewhere--you know, the kind of place with velvety lawns sweeping back to multi-story homes, gleaming front doors kissed by circular drives, birdsong and weed-whackers humming in the golden air. As you pass this neighborhood's well-kept, Episcopal church--slate roofed and sprouting eleg…
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What is it about the cross--what is it about this shameful, traumatic execution--that we call holy? Maybe it's that "when we face and name our shame it no longer has power over us. Because the lowest moment in our story, like the lowest moment in Jesus’ story, can actually become the moment that most deeply connects us to one another, a door that o…
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Count the Cost - 09-08-19
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This sermon invites us to consider that it is better to know ourselves, and count whether doing something will be too hard for us, than to go rushing into something because "it seems like the right thing to do." "Let's take forgiveness, for example. Parishioners in the course of my career have admitted to me privately that they were struggling to f…
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The Race that Is Set Before Us - 08-18-19
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Part of Hebrews' point, expressed in the phrase let us run the race that is set before us, is that each of us has a different race set before us. Some have better weather and fewer hills and injuries than others. Some have faster bodies and some have more endurance. Who can say why? It's one of the great mysteries of life, that some die young, that…
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Acting As If - 08-11-2019
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Maybe faith is less about belief and more about continuing to act even when we don’t have answers.
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All Is Breath - 08-04-2019
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A sermon about facing into meaninglessness and despair by practicing presence.
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The Answer to our Prayers - 07-28-19
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Does God always answer prayers? Well, it’s complicated.
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Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart - 07-14-19
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Where in your life do you need to get close to others and see with the heart’s eyes?
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The Dust of Towns, the Nearness of the Kingdom - 07-07-2019
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On standing for what you believe without cutting off connection to those who disagree.
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Guest preacher Jenny Darrah talks about the job the disciples signed in for.
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One in Christ Jesus - 06-23-19
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A sermon about the importance of doing what we can for inclusion and justice in a divided world.
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What if we heard the unique voices of one another the way God hears us?
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Slave and Free - 06-02-19
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How are we part of an economic system that enslaves? How are we ourselves enslaved? How do we become free?
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