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09/11/2016 – Trinity – Part 2 – The Father Luke 15:17-24. “Our Father” is perhaps our most commonly uttered heaven-bound phrase. It is ubiquitous within our faith. And in its ubiquity, it has simultaneously come to mean both too much and too little. This sermon is an...

09/04/2016 – Trinity – Part 1 – The Mystery (an overview) Readings: The Nicene Creed and John 14:15-20. It isn’t just the New Testament that gives hints of a mysterious, multifaceted, three-in-one God. While we will never be able to explain the trinity, we can explore...

08/28/2016 – An Illustrated Earth – Part 12 – Parable of the Lost Sheep Luke 15:1-7 When Jesus tells the parable about the shepherd who leaves the 99 sheep while searching for the 1 lost sheep, it's about so much more than "insiders" and "outsiders." It's a story that...

08/21/2016 – An Illustrated Earth – Part 11 – Jonah and the Great Fish (plus: stories from Guatemala) Jonah 1:1-4, 10-17 The story of Jonah was written during the Judean exile in Babylon to show there is another way (not just war and retribution) to deal with enemies....

08/14/2016 – An Illustrated Earth – Part 10 – Balaam's talking donkey Numbers 22: As the Israelites prepared to enter the promised land, a prophet was summoned to curse them. Instead he had a perfectly rational conversation with a donkey.

08/07/2016 – An Illustrated Earth – Part 9 – Creation of the Animals Genesis 1:20-25 Context is everything. The creation story of Genesis 1 (notably different from the creation story in Genesis 2) is a poetic, worshipful liturgy that came into being the midst of...

07/24/2016 – An Illustrated Earth – Part 8 -Parable of the Soils Mark 4:1-9 The parable of the soils is one of the most well-known of Jesus parables. A common mis-reading of this story interprets it as about evangelism ... but what if it's bigger and better? What if...