Sermons
Good Friday - Good Darkness
Good Friday 2016
We are in the thick of it. This Good Friday, this deep Lent, this fasting from life (or at least from basketball for an hour or so). The church year, with all its holy days, festivals and cycles of prayer and scripture, will lead you through such times like this of quiet and d...
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The Main Thing
Ok, folks. Its 1 Corinthians 13 day. The love chapter day. So, it makes sense that we begin with a scene from the movie Wedding Crashers. In this movie from a decade ago, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn play best friends who crash wedding parties as a way to pick up women. They s...
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Jesus at Home
The Mezuzah is a small case in which a small hand written scroll of parchment (called a klaf) is placed. The scroll contains the wordsof the "Shema Israel" (Deuteronomy 6:4 - 9) passage, in which God commands Jews to keep His words constantly in their minds and in their hearts...
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“Rich, Young and Powerful”
Introduction: reflection of wife Jean’s story of a Buddhist hutan refugee family, settinga meeting with her about why the embers of 4th Ave UM are cannibals since they are eating the body and blood of Jesus. That is a great story. Would that we all would be so thrown, so offen...
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