2013-06-09

Posted on Sun 09 June 2013 in misc

BASE HEADER LEVEL: 2
MARKED STYLE: Upstanding Citizen
Texts: 1 Kings 17:17–24, Psalm 30, Galatians 1:11–24, Luke 7:11–17
Theme: In his letter to the Galatians, Paul goes ‘back to the basics’ to refocus a church that needs to be renewed in the call of …

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Easter

Posted on Sun 08 April 2012 in misc

What a sight to see, huh?

It’s pretty clear which festival we are celebrating today. The visuals alone of these beautiful flowers — really a garden — tell their own stories about new life and Easter blessings.

It’s been a week of images. I’m a visual person, so I …

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Easter Vigil

Posted on Sat 07 April 2012 in misc

  • This is the night.”
    • No, not a Kenny G song.
    • the ancient chant that began Easter Vigil services
    • as the Ancients marked time, sundown began the next day
    • as they saw it, we have come to the first day - the day of the Resurrection
    • this is Easter, friends! Just like …
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Maundy Thursday 2012

Posted on Thu 05 April 2012 in misc

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love on another.”


It is fitting that we should begin this three day journey to Easter together with a story about a meal. Tonight’s theme comes from an important …

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Christmas Story Paraphrase

Posted on Sun 25 December 2011 in misc

In those days, a ruling went out from the emperor named Caesar Augustus, that all people should have their names recorded for a census. This was the first time it happened while a man named Quirinius was the Governor of Syria. And each person had to go to his own …

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Christmas Eve

Posted on Sat 24 December 2011 in misc

Everything is so beautiful tonight, that it’s hard to imagine Christmas any other way. I can hardly imagine Christmas without the poinsettias, the trees, the lights. And I can hardly imagine Christmas without the proclamation about Bethlehem. About finding a child, wrapped in swaddling cloth, and laid in a …

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Maundy Thursday 2009

Posted on Thu 09 April 2009 in misc

Ps 116:16 O GOD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of a servant mother. You have freed me from my bonds.

Today we gather around one of oldest traditions in human history, the sharing of a meal. We will confess our sins to each other …

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