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Living The Theme

Think about that. When you can’t think about what’s going on in the church because you’re uncomfortable because you’ve been sitting there for so long, your mind doesn’t tell you what you’re supposed to hear and you go home saying it was a rotten day. So I’m not going to do all…

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Don’t Miss This Meeting

Recording in progress. Perfect, doesn’t get much better than this. So this morning we’ll be reading from the Old Testament, Psalm 8, on your page 435 in your pew Bible. I’m reading from a slightly different Bible so my words might not match yours. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name…

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The Start of Discomfort

I’m reading from Numbers 11, 24 through 30, and it’s on the Bible 117. So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered 70 elders of the people and placed them all around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took…

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A Sort of Reset

Week we talked about the promise of the paraclete, and no that’s not a lacrosse shoe phrase. The paraclete being the actual descriptive name for the Holy Spirit, but we’re not at Pentecost yet. When is Pentecost? Next Sunday. And what are you all going to wear? Glenn, you’re a week early and…

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A Gift for Everyone

Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. I will not leave you orphaned. I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but…

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Even on a Very Bad Day

Right? On Monday, as Sarah and I were sitting waiting for Barb to go to school, and Sarah broke out her phone and started looking at the lectionary passages, it was the first one she read, and she goes, ugh, the stoning of Stephen. And I took a second, and I said, yeah,…

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Meeting Us

Every step brings them closer. One of the spiritual practices I like to do is to walk with scripture as I walk Barb to and from Myer. Some days, there’s a little too much talking going on, so I don’t get too much thinking until I drop her off. But I like to think…

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Showing Us the Ugly Way?

Recording in progress Thank you all for bearing with these technological difficulties that we’ve had this morning Technology is great when it works Our New Testament lesson comes from Matthew’s gospel Matthew chapter 4 verses 1 through 11 here the word of our Lord Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to…

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Asking the right Questions

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me. Your…

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From Above Not Here

It’s hard when scripture is familiar, and it’s even harder when it’s got a song attached. After all, how many of us, as soon as we heard that name Zacchaeus, started going, I mean, for Pete’s sake, the Bears have a player whose last name is Zacchaeus, and every time…

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When We Might not Feel it, We are Micah

The sermons on the mount, it’s pretty deep stuff. It’s not the kind of thing that you can’t sit and read and not have move in you. Blessed are the, blessed are. It all begins in an interesting way. Jesus sees the crowds gathering, starting to listen, starting to follow.…

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More than just a Baptism

John the Baptist’s moment has now come. His big moment. Now, up to this point, we’ve seen this steady building of who and what John is. Up to this moment, we’ve seen how he’s dressed with that weird belt around his waist, that cloth of animal hair he wears. We’ve…

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