Happy New Year, Body of Christ!

Advent 1A November 27 Is it REALLY Advent already? I’ve had the strangest feeling all week that we’d skipped a few days or that something wasn’t quite right. But no, it’s here. Advent is here! Happy New Year, Body of Christ! We’ve had our turkey day and black Friday and small business Saturday and soon…

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Do Not Be Overcome By Fear

Pentecost 25C  Luke 21:5-19 Whenever a big event nationally or locally occurs during the week, it often makes me rethink whatever I have written for my sermon. This has been one of those kinds of weeks. Fires in the forest, apocalyptic amounts of smoke that turn the sunset orange and the moon red, and you…

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The Peace of the Wilderness

Creation Series 3: Wilderness     Matthew 3:13-4:2 When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s live may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…

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Free Bread

Pentecost 9B August 5 2012    Exodus 16:2-4,9-15  John 6:24-35 Which is better? Slavery and rich foods or freedom and bread?  Is it better to bow down to a master and have our physical needs cared for or to live in freedom and rely upon God alone for our needs? I had a friend once, named…

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