Watch: Sermon from Morning Prayer September 6, 2020
Watch: Sermon from Morning Prayer August 16, 2020
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Watch: Sermon from Morning Worship, August 9, 2020
Watch: Sermon from Morning Worship, August 2, 2020
The Kingdom of Heaven is Persistent
1 Give thanks to the Lord and call upon God’s Name; *make known God’s deeds among the peoples. 2 Sing praises, sing praises, *and speak of all God’s marvelous works. Throughout the Gospels and in Matthew’s Gospel in particular, Jesus taught through parables. I love parables. These earthy stories with a heavenly meaning start with the here and […]
The Power of Paradox
One of the great truths of Christianity is that it is steeped in paradox. Every facet of the religion, from its theology, to its ethics, to its holy book, to Jesus’ own identity, invites us to occupy holy in-between places, places of hard but life-giving ambiguity. I know: paradox doesn’t always feel life-giving. Most of the time, we […]
Watch: Sermon from Morning Worship July 19, 2020
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Watch: Sermon from Morning Worship July 12, 2020
Yoked Together
We started out as classmates, people who shared space in a classroom learning about history and theology and worship planning, Greek and Hebrew. But as the days and weeks passed we each in our own way were growing tired and burdened. The work was demanding and the reading seemed insurmountable. And then one of us […]
Morning Worship June 14, 2020 on Zoom
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