Sermons & Worship Recordings

Worship and/or Sermons 2022

September 25, 2022
Bad Taste, Negativity, Hardly HARM, and Wholeness Experienced
II Kings 4:38-41
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September 18, 2022
God’s Long Promise Still Dawning Each Dawn
Genesis 28:10-22; Ruth 1:15-18; I Corinthians 13:8a
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September 11, 2022
God's Promise of Wholeness in Eternity Alive for Love and Healing Even Today
Revelation 22:1-5
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September 4, 2022
Even If Not Pacifists, God’s Promissory Vision for Today and Eternity
Isaiah 11:1-9
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August 28, 2022
Father Forgive
Daniel 9:15-19; Psalm 25:1-7
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August 21, 2022
Held onto through Evil: Our Help Comes from the Lord
Psalm 121; Romans 14:7-9
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August 14, 2022
When It’s a Terrible, Very Bad Day, or Longer
II Samuel 16:5-14; Matthew 7:12
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August 7, 2022
What Is It? “Manna” as Bread from God
Exodus 16:2-3,8,11-15 and Matthew 6:11
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July 31
Thinking It Over for Being in the Wild and Casting Deeply
John 21:3-8; Luke 5:1-11
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July 24
Hearts, Minds, Doors, and Lives Open
Acts 4:32-35; 11:25-26; 26:24-29
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July 17
Eyes, Ears, and Minds Up and Open
John 4:4-42
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July 10
Providence – Not Plans
2 Kings 5:1-14
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July 3
Worship with Independent Day Weekend Music and Hymns
Micah 6:8

June 26
The Service of Worship with Thanksgiving to God for This Nation and All Who Serve
John 15:12-15c
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June 19
The Moral Universe’s Gravitational Pull toward Love
Acts 15:6-19
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June 12
Sometimes Along the Way, We may be Touched by an Earthly-Saint!
Proverbs 27:17; I Peter 2:9
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June 5
Do We Sense God’s Heartbreak, Stress-through, and Break-through Chapters? And Our Being Challenged and Changed Accordingly?
Acts 15:6-19
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May 29
The Names and Faces Change While God's Faithfulness Continues
II Kings 2:1-15
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May 22
Unexpected Changes When a New Person Shows Up
Acts 16:9-15
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May 15
And a River Runs Through It
John 1:1-8
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May 8
God’s Heavenly Template and Its Mirror Image: “My Kingdom Come on Earth”
Revelation 7:9-17
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May 1
Reflections on John 21:18-19 and Jesus Is Hosting, but, Due to Unfinished Business, It’s No Free Breakfast
John 21:1-19
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April 24
A Little Faith
Matthew 14:22-33
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April 17
This Headscratcher and What Follows
Luke 24:1-12
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April 10
Jesus Suggests That Now Begins the Week of Our Discontent
Luke 19:35-42,47-48
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April 3
God’s Goodness Glimpsed for Courage, Community, and Vulnerability
Exodus 33:17-23
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March 27 (and Remembering the Rev. Dr. Robert H. Leslie, Pastor Emeritus)
Why Some Details Matter – Even As “Beneath (and Beyond) Are the Everlasting Arms”
Exodus 25:1-8; John 1:14
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March 20
Keeping the Sabbath Holy
Exodus 20:1-20
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March 13
When an Act of Sacred Witness Indicates Who God Is, Take It to Heart
Exodus 2:15-22,25; 14:13
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March 6
The Staircase – When I AM Calls, Claims, and Promises
Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15
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February 27
Voices That Challenge Us: (4) for God’s Own Unbounded Commonwealth
Mark 7:24-30
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February 13
Voices That Challenge Us: (3) for Citizenship
I Kings 18:17-18
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February 6
Voices That Challenge Us: (2) for Being Progressing Learners in Theology
Numbers 22:21-35
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January 30
Voices That Challenge Us: (1) for Identity
Genesis 3:1-13
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January 23
Kingdom Building
Nehemiah 8:1-3,5-6,8-10
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January 16
If the Vision Is True, Shame Is on the Way to Extinction
Joel 2:26-29; John 21:17-19
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January 9
Jesus’ Baptism and Ours: Being “in the World” and Not Just “on It”
Luke 3:15-17,21-22
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January 2
Obedient – for Adaptability in the Light of God
Matthew 2:1-15
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Worship and/or Sermons 2021

December 26
Christmas with Confidence from the Carols and Other Poets
John 1:14a,b,c
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December 24
Love Born Amid Daylight, Shadow, and Dark
Luke 2:1-20
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December 19
We Wait with Gratitude
Luke 1:11-25; Psalm 9:1
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December 12
The Unexpected We Are Called and Engaged to Expect
Isaiah 25:6-12
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December 5
Hope as Surviving and Subversive Work
Psalm 130:5-8
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November 28
We Wait with Faith
Genesis 18:2-15; Galatians 3:8
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November 21
What You Have in Christ Is Greater than Anything You Don’t Have in Life
Philippians 4:1,4-9,11-13
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November 14
Rich with Assets for Being a Kingdom of God Community
I Timothy 6:6-10; Luke 12:13-21; Luke 21:1-4
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November 7
Living in and Changing by the Light of God
Ecclesiastes 1:7-10; Hebrews 13:5-8
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October 31
Haunted Houses
Matthew 12:43-45
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October 24
The Talent of Investing and Living the Love God Invests through Us
Matthew 25:14-30
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October 17
Enriched through the Time We Have Together
Psalm 90:1-6,13-17
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October 10
The Cost of Discipleship
Mark 10:17-31
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October 3
Squeezed (?!) by the Love of God in Jesus
II Corinthians 5:14-15
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September 26
Jesus, By Faith and Trust, Get Me to Post-judice!
Leviticus 19:18,33-34; Luke 10:23-37
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September 19
Loving Ewe
Luke 15:1-10
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September 12
The Threat of Perishing and the Possibility of Repenting toward the Good
Esther 4:11-17 and Luke 13:1-5
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September 5
Jesus’ Approach to Anyone’s Thinking: “Those Other People …”
Luke 9:51-62
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