Click here to watch the service. John 10:11-18 I have a button that I sometimes wear in December that says, Santa: Define “Good.” I feel the same way when I approach this scripture. How do we define a good shepherd? The problem is, of course, the over-simplification we do. We automatically assume the opposite of good is bad. I did that […]
Click here to watch the service. 1 John 4:7-21 Some scholars believe that part of our scripture for today was originally a poem. [1] Inspired by that poem, I have decided to preach this morning in the form of spoken word poetry. Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God. God is love, and those who abide in
Click here to watch the service. Acts 4:32-37 On the weeks after Easter, the scriptures we usually hear in worship are the post-resurrection appearances of Christ. And you will probably hear one of them next week. But in the lectionary, that three-year cycle of readings many churches follow, we also are given a scripture each week from the book of Acts.
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Click here to watch the service. Mark 16:1-8 The Christian Bible contains four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They all tell the stories of Jesus, but we have four because they (clearly) are not all the same. They were written by different people, for different audiences, with different perspectives and agenda. There are many similarities, to be sure; more is
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Click here to watch the service. Matthew 8:18-27 Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe then approached and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has
Click here to watch the service. Mark 5:21-42 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at
Click here to watch the service. Mark 5:1-20 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a
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Click here to watch the service. Matthew 8:1-4 (or Mark 1:40-4) When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!”
Click here to watch the service. 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 In the New Testament we have two letters from Paul to the church in Corinth. They are accurately, if not creatively, called 1st and 2nd Corinthians. Paul actually wrote four letters to the church in Corinth, but only two of them survived. We know about the original existence of the others because
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