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Comfort, Prepare, Cry Out, Get Up (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached the Second Sunday of Advent, December 10, 2023. The reading I preached on was Isaiah 40:1-11. You can view a video of the sermon here. Comfort! Prepare! Cry out! Get up! That’s our first reading from Isaiah today. Four commands. Comfort! Prepare! Cry out! Get…
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Yearning (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on December 3, 2023, the First Sunday of Advent. The text I preached on was Isaiah 64:1-9. You can view a video of the sermon here. Advent is a season of waiting. Waiting. Waiting. It’s December now, but in the church, it’s not Christmas yet…
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The Baking Soda in the Cookies (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on Christ the King, Sunday, November 26, 2023. The gospel text was Matthew 25:31-46. To see a video of the sermon, click here. Jodie was upset. “Why did I come here today?” she wondered. “I thought this would help. Now I feel worse than when…
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Christ Will Come Again (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on November 12, 2023, the Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. The gospel reading was Matthew 25:1-13. My parents have taught me a lot of things. They taught me how to read. They taught me how to ride a bike. They taught me how to write…
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Blessed Now, Blessed Later, Blessed to Be a Blessing (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on All Saints Sunday, November 5, 2023. The gospel text was Matthew 5:1-12. I also referred to the First Reading from Revelation 7:9-17. This is a day of good news. Truly, every Sunday is a day of good news. Every Sunday we hear again the…
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Powerless and Beloved (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached Sunday, August 13, 2023. The gospel text was Matthew 14:22-33. Watch a video of the sermon here. I love living in this area for lots of reasons. I love the woods around here: all the local parks and even my own backyard. I love being…
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Feeding Each Other (Sermon)
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached on Sunday, August 6, 2023. The gospel reading was Matthew 14:13-21. There’s a miracle today in our gospel story. A miracle that shows God’s mercy and glory. But it’s not the miracle we think that we’re reading. The miracle isn’t that Jesus is feeding. See,…
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Harvey and the Weeds (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached Sunday, July 23, 2023. The gospel reading was Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. You can view a video of the sermon here. I’m going to tell you a story. The two main characters in this story are Harvey and the Lord God. It’s a fanciful, kind of…
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Listen (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on July 16, 2023. The gospel reading was Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23. Click here to watch a video of the sermon. Listen. Listen. I have a message for you. Yes, for you. You know, every now and then someone will tell me, “Pastor, it’s like today’s…
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Freedom in the Yoke (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached July 9, 2023. The gospel reading I preached on was Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30. You can watch a video of the sermon here. It was a Sunday in early July, just a few days after Independence Day, and Fred was at church. He was listening to…
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