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Undignified, Outrageous Joy to the World
We have much to be outrageously joyful about: the Almighty Creator God came to be with us and continues to be with us, this and every day.
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Wherever You Find Love, It Feels Like Christmas
That is the message of Christmas: God is love, God chose and chooses to be with us, and now we need merely to love, and love abundantly.
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The Answer to Our Deepest Longings
Our encounter with Jesus must change us for the better of ourselves and our community... Only he is the answer to our deepest longings.
Sermons
Outward and Visible Signs
All of us are to be outward and visible signs of the grandeur and beauty of God in service, in eldering, in oversight, for the sake of all.
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We Lead Like Roz, Like Jesus
Christians must follow the example of Christ their King and get invested, get alongside those we love, in reciprocal, beloved community.
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A Peculiar People is More than Enough
Jesus came to teach us to love God and love neighbor beyond any reasonable metric, with everything we have and with everything we are.
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Lives of Hope and Love, Together
This end goal for all of creation? We are participants in it. For our part, the way we get there is simply this: loving God and neighbor.
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The One About Gandalf and Sam
Though no one wants to endure suffering, we will all face it; it is ours to decide what our response will be. Respond first with prayer.
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True Power is Self-Sacrificing, Abundant Love
The power of Jesus, of the Kingdom of God, comes not through a sword or a gun or a gavel or a position of power but through the cross.
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At Church, All Things are Possible
I argue that the best way to give up your “one thing” and to follow Jesus is to be a connected and committed part of your local church.
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Angels? Demons? Miracles? Be Like Jesus.
What I do know is that being a Christian involves practicing the Way, being like this Jesus whom we see in the Gospels and in the Church.
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Are Any Suffering? Be the Church.
If you are suffering? Turn to God. If you are cheerful? Turn to God. If you are sick? Turn to each other, and then together, turn to God.