Sermon Podcasts
The Lord’s Prayer – Part Two: Our Father in Heaven
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.
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The Lord’s Prayer – Part One
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 in more detail over the next 8 weeks.
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Christmas Eve – Gifts & Withholdings: Lessons from the Magi
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 might this ancient story speak to our modern struggle between surrender and self-preservation?
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Advent Week Four: Which Love?
12/22/2024 – Advent Week Four: Which Love?
On this fourth Sunday of advent, our theme is love. Love is one of the most important words in the life of faith, but (in English at least) its meaning can be elusive. When we say God is Love, what is it we actually mean?
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Advent Week Three: Joy (and avocados?)
12/15/2024 – Advent Week Three: Joy (and avocados?)
Through an unlikely pair of stories – a Christmas airline surprise and an ancient couple’s unexpected news – we explore what it means to participate in God’s joy. Together they reveal how God delights in bringing life to barren places, and invites us to do the same.
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Advent Week Two: Two Peaces
12/08/2024 – Advent Week Two: Two Peaces
Jesus is the Prince of Peace. But when Jesus was born, the title of Savior / Bringer of Peace was already taken. What does Luke’s Gospel and his Christmas story teach us about Peace?
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Advent Week One: Hope as Defiance
12/01/2024 – Advent Week One: Hope as Defiance
During World War II, Japanese Americans in internment camps launched a quiet rebellion – not with weapons, but with vegetable gardens, poetry, and baseball leagues. Through their story of creating beauty behind barbed wire, this Advent sermon explores what it means to practice hope as an act of holy defiance, both then and now.
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Hope & Humility: Part Eight – Not From Here
11/24/2024 – Hope & Humility: Part Eight – Not From Here
As we prepare for Advent, the lectionary wants us to be thinking about the nature of kingship. The Jewish people had a long, checkered history with kings. In Jesus, they would find a King whose Kingdom was not from this world.
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Hope & Humility: Part Seven – Labor Pains
11/17/2024 – Hope & Humility: Part Seven – Labor Pains
Through the parallel stories of Hannah’s prayer at Shiloh (1 Samuel 1:4-20) and Jesus’ prophecy about the temple’s destruction (Mark 13:1-8), this message explores how God’s kingdom emerges not through political power or force, but through the patient “birth pains” of love and faithful presence.
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Hope & Humility: Part Six – Intermissions of Light in the Darkness
11/10/2024 – Hope & Humility: Part Six – Intermissions of Light in the Darkness
TThis Sunday we discussed two stories in Mark chapter 12: the greatest commandment, and the widows offering. These stories represent light, joy, and hope in the midst of a dark chapter. What can we learn from these stories and characters to help light our way in the season ahead?
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