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03/02/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Nine: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory Forever This Sunday, we conclude our series on the Lord‘s prayer with the doxology. What does this section about the kingdom, the power, and the glory, which appears in some versions of...

02/23/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Eight: Deliver Us From Evil From movie villains to social media algorithms, evil takes many forms. In this exploration of the Lord’s Prayer’s plea for deliverance from evil, we examine how Jesus’ wilderness temptations reveal...

02/16/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Seven: Lead Us Not Into Temptation This Sunday, we arrive at the line of the Lord's Prayer: 'Lead us not into temptation.' However, 'temptation' can also be translated as 'testing.' How does this translation change the way we look...

02/09/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Six: Forgive Us Our Trespasses Forgiveness isn't only personal - it's also communal. In this sermon on 'forgive us our trespasses,' we explore how Germany's approach to historical memory offers lessons for our own angry, divided...

02/02/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Five: Our Daily Bread When Jesus tells us to pray for our daily bread, he is not introducing a new concept. Rather he is building on centuries of tradition. This Sunday we look at the stories Jesus is pointing us to with this line...

01/26/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Four: Thy Kingdom Come With divine timing (or perhaps divine humor), this sermon on "Thy Kingdom Come" lands during inauguration week, inviting us to examine what this prayer truly demands of us. Through stories of ancient Rome...

01/19/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Three: Hallowed Be Thy Name Through stories of college sports and modern culture, we explore the phrase "Hallowed be Thy name." How might the radical-individualism of our age be challenged by these words from the Lord's Prayer?...

01/12/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Two: Our Father in Heaven "Our Father in heaven" - four words that have opened countless prayers through history. This week we consider their surprising meaning in Jesus' world, and what they could mean for us today. Our services...

01/05/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part One This year we will be walking through the historic Christian Catechism - The Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles Creed. Today we look at some background and context, as we prepare to look at the Lord’s Prayer...

12/24/2024 - Gifts & Withholdings: Lessons from the Magi In this reflection on the story of the Magi, we explore the beautiful complexity of human hearts - how we, like the Wise Men, both give and withhold, longing for God's Kingdom while clinging to our own. How...