2007 Sermons
December 30, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 11 am service
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What’s your story?
December 25, 2007
The Rev. Tom Ehrich, 11 am service
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December 24, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 8 and 11 pm services
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Christmas 2007
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December 24, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 6 pm service
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December 24, 2007
Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, 4 pm service
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December 23, 2007
The Rev. Tom Ehrich, 11 am service
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December 23, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 9 am service
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December 9, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Isaiah, paradigm shifts and Casablanca
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December 9, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 9 am service
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December 2, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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An invitation, not a threat
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November 25, 2007
The Rev. Tom Ehrich, 11 am service
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Decisions, decisions
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November 25, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 9 am service
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November 18, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Read, mark and learn your own life
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November 18, 2007
The Rev. Tom Ehrich, 9 am service
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November 11, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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The pity card is pulled from your hands
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November 11, 2007
The Rev. Tom Ehrich, 9 am service
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November 4, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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We get by with a little help from our friends
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October 28, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Humility before the facts
October 21, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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No more sour grapes
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October 14, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Thank God for this pile of stones
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October 7, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Out of your mind? God love you.
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September 30, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 11 am service
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Dancing toward God’s future
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September 30, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 9 am service
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September 23, 2007
The Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, 11 am service
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No longer here, so keep the faith
September 23, 2007
The Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, 9 am service
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Wise and unwise generation
September 16, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Welcome home
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September 11, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 12:05 pm service
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September 9, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Remember 9/11 and live beyond fear
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September 9, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 9 am service
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September 2, 2007
The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, 11 am service
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Humble Jesus watching you
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September 2, 2007
The Rev. Kevin D. Bean, 9 am service
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Radical welcome
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August 26, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 11 am service
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Point to God; that's the point
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August 19, 2007
The Rev. Kevin D. Bean, 11 am service
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A divine dissatisfaction
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August 19, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 9 am service
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August 12, 2007
The Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, 11 am service
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Jesus, the plumber, and fear
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August 12, 2007
The Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, 9 am service
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August 5, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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No quick fixes with Jesus
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August 5, 2007
The Rev. Kevin D. Bean, 9 am service
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Better and better off
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July 29, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 11 am service
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Harry, Homer, and Rowan
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July 29, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 9 am service
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Let’s be honest
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July 22, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Laughing at anxiety
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July 15, 2007
The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, 11 am service
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Living the eternal questions
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June 15, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 9 am service
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July 8, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Jesus, the not-nice Lord
July 1, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Will you embrace your own drama?
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July 1, 2007
The Rev. Deacon John David Clarke, 9 am service
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You can’t look back
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June 24, 2007
The Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey, 11 am service
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Don’t just sit there . . .
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June 24, 2007
The Rev. Gideon L.K. Pollach, 9 am service
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Clothed, healed, freed, restored, and living
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June 17, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Why I keep coming here
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June 17, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 9 am service
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June 10, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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From one atheist to another
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June 10, 2007
The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, 9 am service
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June 3, 2007
The Rev. William McD. Tully, 11 am service
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Jesus’ last will and testament
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June 3, 2007
The Rev. Kevin D. Bean, 9 am service
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The Holy Trinity and the Spirit of truth
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May 27, 2007
The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, 11 am service
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We are Pentecostals
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May 20, 2007
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Don't drop the connection
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May 13, 2007
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Wall of the Holy Spirit
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May 13, 2007
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God's different ways of helping
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May 6, 2007
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Do you have a vision for your life
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April 29, 2007
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Sermon by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, Bishop of New York
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April 22, 2007
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Why do you persecute me? Do you love me?
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April 22, 2007
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Reclaiming the Earth-bound Jesus
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April 15, 2007
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Easter: loosing the bonds—being freed to follow again
April 8, 2007: Easter Day
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Love wins. You matter.
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April 7, 2007: Easter Vigil
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April 6, 2007: Good Friday
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the First Word
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First Meditation
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the Second Word
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the Third Word
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the Fourth Word
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Fourth Meditation
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the Fifth Word
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the Sixth Word
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the Seventh Word
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Seventh Meditation
April 5, 2007: Maundy Thursday
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April 1, 2007: Palm Sunday
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the Passion (Gospel text)
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March 25, 2007
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Wake up and dream life
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March 25, 2007
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March 18, 2007
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Assignment: forgive
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March 11, 2007
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Think again
March 11, 2007
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Observe God, Moses, your heart and the
world—and repent
March 4, 2007
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Telling the fox where to go
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March 4, 2007
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Mediating foxes and chickens
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February 25, 2007
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The wilderness of our differences
February 25, 2007
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The spiritual laws of motion
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February 21, 2007 (Ash Wednesday)
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Your father who sees you in secret will reward you
February 18, 2007
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Transfiguration: We had the experience, but you didn't!
February 11, 2007
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High School doesn’t last forever, thank God
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February 4, 2007
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Set us free
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January 28, 2007
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Universalism vs. Exclusionism
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January 28, 2007
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An affair of the heart
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January 21, 2007
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The Jesus delusion and idolatry
January 14, 2007
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God’s Spirit, and the Big Rock
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January 7, 2007
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The redemptive trend
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2006 Sermons
December 31, 2006
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Jesus, the buzzword
December 31, 2006
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What if God were one of us . . .
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December 25, 2006
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Mystic or Unbeliever?
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December 24, 2006
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Christmas 2006
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December 24, 2006
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Something out of nothing
December 17, 2006
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A bittersweet farewell
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December 10, 2006
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G(od)PS and Where are you?
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December 3, 2006
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What time is it?
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November 26, 2006
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Christ the King
November 19, 2006 (11 am)
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Is it the end of the world
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November 19, 2006 (9 am)
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Choose hope
November 12, 2006
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Sermon by the Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane
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November 5, 2006
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A riff on the imagination of God
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October 29, 2006
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October 22, 2006
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Jesus, $27, and a BHAG
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October 15, 2006
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October 8, 2006
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The Bible on divorce: where is the good news?
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October 1, 2006 (11 am)
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“Whoever is not against us is for us”
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October 1, 2006 (9 am)
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The nature of the beast
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September 24, 2006
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Jesus, Buddha, faith and reason
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
02/06/05 Rise and shine, beloved ones!
01/30/05 Life with a capital L
01/30/05 “Complete are you . . . ”
01/23/05 Our deeper unity
01/16/05 Keep looking
01/09/05 Belonging, and staying
01/02/05 Finding faith to carry on
2004 Sermons
12/26/04 Growing up and becoming children of God
12/25/04 Joy, innocence, and generosity
12/24/04 A Christmas renovation
12/12/04 Beyond depression, a new Advent
12/19/04 Seeing reality through Mary
12/05/04 Grit or grace?
11/28/04 Remember the ark
11/21/04 Was Galileo wrong after all?
11/14/04 Attention must be paid
11/07/04 Practicing sainthood
10/31/04 The story of Zacchaeus
10/24/04 Election 2004: Part 2
10/17/04 Election 2004: Part 1
10/01/04 The lessons of the lepers
10/03/04 Grow up and grow into faith
09/26/04 Life with a warning label
09/26/04 Rich and poor alike
09/19/04 Moving forward
09/12/04 Sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk
09/05/04 Cost and promise
08/29/04 The work of welcome
08/22/04 A holy narrow-mindedness
08/15/04 No peace without conflict
08/08/04 Our
real source of security
07/25/04 The model for your prayer
07/18/04 More than a guest at the table
07/11/04 Join the Good Samaritan
07/04/04 What freedom is for
06/27/04 For freedom, Christ has set us free
06/24/04 Does God change? Can you?
06/13/04 Trapped: forgiven to forgive
06/06/04 The spacious poetry of the Trinity
05/23/04 Carried away by love
05/16/04 Idol thoughts
05/09/04 Love in a time of war
04/25/04 Knocked down, you can be raised up
04/18/04 Thomas’ doubts, and yours
04/11/04 (Easter Day) The risen life is not a movie
04/04/04 Dying to live
03/28/04 Good news from the vineyard
03/21/04 Amazing grace. Then what?
03/14/04 Your burning bush
03/07/04 The city is calling
02/29/04 Tempted but still struggling
02/25/04 What is your practice?
02/22/04 It’s what’s inside that counts
02/15/04We’re to be restless, not anxious
02/08/04 The good news about sin
02/02/04 It’s the outsiders
01/25/04 Saved from addiction
01/25/04 To make a better world
01/18/04 The sacrament of seeing
01/11/04 It’s about trust
01/04/04 A sermon preached by The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA
01/04/04 Now for the journey
2003 Sermons
12/28/03 The light still shines
12/25/03 Room for joy: If I could meet the innkeeper
12/24/03 All hands joined at Christmas
12/14/03 An Advent parable
12/07/03 God’s leveling plan begins with you
11/30/03 Our day is dawning
11/23/03 What kind of king
11/16/03 Faith, the future and the flying trapeze
11/09/03 Two widows, two cracking hearts
11/02/03 The cluelessness of the saints
10/19/03 Following the servant-king
10/12/03 When you come to a fork in the road . . .
10/05/03 Blessing of the animals: our godly companions
10/05/03 Because of your hardness of heart
09/28/03 What I learned on someone else’s sabbatical
09/14/03 I believe. Help my unbelief.
08/31/03 Let’s talk about true religion
08/24/03 The Church: autocracy or democracy?
08/17/03 Little children, love one another
08/10/03 A time for healing
08/03/03 And what was the question?
07/27/03 Christ is with us
07/13/03 Sent out: the radical dismissal
07/06/03 A chance for a new start
06/29/03 The house that fear built
06/10/03 It doesn’t have to be that way
05/25/03 To know God is to love God
05/18/03 The presence of absence
05/04/03 Teachers of life, not death
04/27/03 Friends of Thomas
04/20/03 Easter 2003: The clown lives to tell
04/06/03 Which will it be?
03/30/03 What’s grace got to do with it?
03/23/03 The war within
03/16/03 Beyond knowing
03/09/03 A season for honesty
03/02/03 Whispering hope
02/23/03 First, forgive
02/16/03 Beyond stress management
02/09/03 From one pagan to the others
02/02/03 Let there be peace among us
http://www.stbarts.org/sermons/ser012603.htm
01/19/03 Nathanael and Dr. King: they came and saw
01/12/02 Are we safe here?
01/05/03 The three lessons of life
2002 Sermons
12/29/02 And that’s the rest of the story
12/25/02 Christmas Day A.D. 2002
12/24/02 There
was room in the inn, after all
12/22/02 Let it be
12/15/02 Out of time
12/08/02 Questions and answers worth living
12/01/02 Here we go again
11/24/02 Judging your life
11/17/02 Live in expectation (A sermon about what we didn’t do on Nov. 17)
11/10/02 This great, good, sacred place
11/03/02 Faith is not for wimps
10/27/02 Lessons from the #6 train
10/20/02 I have a dream
10/13/02 War or peace?
10/06/02 Are you giving what you’ve been given?
10/06/02 Blessing of the animals
9/29/02 Sour grapes, or the sweet life?
9/22/02 What kind of world?
9/15/02 The tools of faith
9/8/02 God breaks our hearts—open
9/1/02 A matter of death and life
8/25/02 WWJT: What was Jesus thinking?
8/18/02 Getting to yes
8/11/02 Walking on water
8/4/02 It’s not easy being kind
7/21/02 Be patient while weeding
7/14/02 How does faith grow?
7/7/02 Lightening life’s burden
6/30/02 Peace or a sword?
6/23/02 Profiles in courage
6/16/02 The bad news is good news
6/9/02 Saints and sinners
6/2/02 Beyond stupidity
5/26/02 Surrounded by God
5/19/02 God’s quickening Spirit
5/12/02 What next?
4/28/02 Trust and truth
4/21/02 Priming the pump
4/14/02 Breaking bread
3/31/02 Easter. Yeah. Uh-huh.
3/24/02 Where was God?
3/17/02 God-avoidance
3/3/02 The elements of the Spirit
2/24/02 You are a marvel
2/17/02 What’s wrong with the world
2/10/02 The gift, a changed life
2/3/02 Pointed foolishness
1/20/02 Come and see
1/13/02 True happiness
1/6/02 New Year smarts
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
02/06/05 Rise and shine, beloved ones!
01/30/05 Life with a capital L
01/30/05 “Complete are you . . . ”
01/23/05 Our deeper unity
01/16/05 Keep looking
01/09/05 Belonging, and staying
01/02/05 Finding faith to carry on
2004 Sermons
12/26/04 Growing up and becoming children of God
12/25/04 Joy, innocence, and generosity
12/24/04 A Christmas renovation
12/12/04 Beyond depression, a new Advent
12/19/04 Seeing reality through Mary
12/05/04 Grit or grace?
11/28/04 Remember the ark
11/21/04 Was Galileo wrong after all?
11/14/04 Attention must be paid
11/07/04 Practicing sainthood
10/31/04 The story of Zacchaeus
10/24/04 Election 2004: Part 2
10/17/04 Election 2004: Part 1
10/01/04 The lessons of the lepers
10/03/04 Grow up and grow into faith
09/26/04 Life with a warning label
09/26/04 Rich and poor alike
09/19/04 Moving forward
09/12/04 Sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk
09/05/04 Cost and promise
08/29/04 The work of welcome
08/22/04 A holy narrow-mindedness
08/15/04 No peace without conflict
08/08/04 Our
real source of security
07/25/04 The model for your prayer
07/18/04 More than a guest at the table
07/11/04 Join the Good Samaritan
07/04/04 What freedom is for
06/27/04 For freedom, Christ has set us free
06/24/04 Does God change? Can you?
06/13/04 Trapped: forgiven to forgive
06/06/04 The spacious poetry of the Trinity
05/23/04 Carried away by love
05/16/04 Idol thoughts
05/09/04 Love in a time of war
04/25/04 Knocked down, you can be raised up
04/18/04 Thomas’ doubts, and yours
04/11/04 (Easter Day) The risen life is not a movie
04/04/04 Dying to live
03/28/04 Good news from the vineyard
03/21/04 Amazing grace. Then what?
03/14/04 Your burning bush
03/07/04 The city is calling
02/29/04 Tempted but still struggling
02/25/04 What is your practice?
02/22/04 It’s what’s inside that counts
02/15/04We’re to be restless, not anxious
02/08/04 The good news about sin
02/02/04 It’s the outsiders
01/25/04 Saved from addiction
01/25/04 To make a better world
01/18/04 The sacrament of seeing
01/11/04 It’s about trust
01/04/04 A sermon preached by The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA
01/04/04 Now for the journey
2003 Sermons
12/28/03 The light still shines
12/25/03 Room for joy: If I could meet the innkeeper
12/24/03 All hands joined at Christmas
12/14/03 An Advent parable
12/07/03 God’s leveling plan begins with you
11/30/03 Our day is dawning
11/23/03 What kind of king
11/16/03 Faith, the future and the flying trapeze
11/09/03 Two widows, two cracking hearts
11/02/03 The cluelessness of the saints
10/19/03 Following the servant-king
10/12/03 When you come to a fork in the road . . .
10/05/03 Blessing of the animals: our godly companions
10/05/03 Because of your hardness of heart
09/28/03 What I learned on someone else’s sabbatical
09/14/03 I believe. Help my unbelief.
08/31/03 Let’s talk about true religion
08/24/03 The Church: autocracy or democracy?
08/17/03 Little children, love one another
08/10/03 A time for healing
08/03/03 And what was the question?
07/27/03 Christ is with us
07/13/03 Sent out: the radical dismissal
07/06/03 A chance for a new start
06/29/03 The house that fear built
06/10/03 It doesn’t have to be that way
05/25/03 To know God is to love God
05/18/03 The presence of absence
05/04/03 Teachers of life, not death
04/27/03 Friends of Thomas
04/20/03 Easter 2003: The clown lives to tell
04/06/03 Which will it be?
03/30/03 What’s grace got to do with it?
03/23/03 The war within
03/16/03 Beyond knowing
03/09/03 A season for honesty
03/02/03 Whispering hope
02/23/03 First, forgive
02/16/03 Beyond stress management
02/09/03 From one pagan to the others
02/02/03 Let there be peace among us
http://www.stbarts.org/sermons/ser012603.htm
01/19/03 Nathanael and Dr. King: they came and saw
01/12/02 Are we safe here?
01/05/03 The three lessons of life
2002 Sermons
12/29/02 And that’s the rest of the story
12/25/02 Christmas Day A.D. 2002
12/24/02 There
was room in the inn, after all
12/22/02 Let it be
12/15/02 Out of time
12/08/02 Questions and answers worth living
12/01/02 Here we go again
11/24/02 Judging your life
11/17/02 Live in expectation (A sermon about what we didn’t do on Nov. 17)
11/10/02 This great, good, sacred place
11/03/02 Faith is not for wimps
10/27/02 Lessons from the #6 train
10/20/02 I have a dream
10/13/02 War or peace?
10/06/02 Are you giving what you’ve been given?
10/06/02 Blessing of the animals
9/29/02 Sour grapes, or the sweet life?
9/22/02 What kind of world?
9/15/02 The tools of faith
9/8/02 God breaks our hearts—open
9/1/02 A matter of death and life
8/25/02 WWJT: What was Jesus thinking?
8/18/02 Getting to yes
8/11/02 Walking on water
8/4/02 It’s not easy being kind
7/21/02 Be patient while weeding
7/14/02 How does faith grow?
7/7/02 Lightening life’s burden
6/30/02 Peace or a sword?
6/23/02 Profiles in courage
6/16/02 The bad news is good news
6/9/02 Saints and sinners
6/2/02 Beyond stupidity
5/26/02 Surrounded by God
5/19/02 God’s quickening Spirit
5/12/02 What next?
4/28/02 Trust and truth
4/21/02 Priming the pump
4/14/02 Breaking bread
3/31/02 Easter. Yeah. Uh-huh.
3/24/02 Where was God?
3/17/02 God-avoidance
3/3/02 The elements of the Spirit
2/24/02 You are a marvel
2/17/02 What’s wrong with the world
2/10/02 The gift, a changed life
2/3/02 Pointed foolishness
1/20/02 Come and see
1/13/02 True happiness
1/6/02 New Year smarts
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
02/06/05 Rise and shine, beloved ones!
01/30/05 Life with a capital L
01/30/05 “Complete are you . . . ”
01/23/05 Our deeper unity
01/16/05 Keep looking
01/09/05 Belonging, and staying
01/02/05 Finding faith to carry on
2004 Sermons
12/26/04 Growing up and becoming children of God
12/25/04 Joy, innocence, and generosity
12/24/04 A Christmas renovation
12/12/04 Beyond depression, a new Advent
12/19/04 Seeing reality through Mary
12/05/04 Grit or grace?
11/28/04 Remember the ark
11/21/04 Was Galileo wrong after all?
11/14/04 Attention must be paid
11/07/04 Practicing sainthood
10/31/04 The story of Zacchaeus
10/24/04 Election 2004: Part 2
10/17/04 Election 2004: Part 1
10/01/04 The lessons of the lepers
10/03/04 Grow up and grow into faith
09/26/04 Life with a warning label
09/26/04 Rich and poor alike
09/19/04 Moving forward
09/12/04 Sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk
09/05/04 Cost and promise
08/29/04 The work of welcome
08/22/04 A holy narrow-mindedness
08/15/04 No peace without conflict
08/08/04 Our
real source of security
07/25/04 The model for your prayer
07/18/04 More than a guest at the table
07/11/04 Join the Good Samaritan
07/04/04 What freedom is for
06/27/04 For freedom, Christ has set us free
06/24/04 Does God change? Can you?
06/13/04 Trapped: forgiven to forgive
06/06/04 The spacious poetry of the Trinity
05/23/04 Carried away by love
05/16/04 Idol thoughts
05/09/04 Love in a time of war
04/25/04 Knocked down, you can be raised up
04/18/04 Thomas’ doubts, and yours
04/11/04 (Easter Day) The risen life is not a movie
04/04/04 Dying to live
03/28/04 Good news from the vineyard
03/21/04 Amazing grace. Then what?
03/14/04 Your burning bush
03/07/04 The city is calling
02/29/04 Tempted but still struggling
02/25/04 What is your practice?
02/22/04 It’s what’s inside that counts
02/15/04We’re to be restless, not anxious
02/08/04 The good news about sin
02/02/04 It’s the outsiders
01/25/04 Saved from addiction
01/25/04 To make a better world
01/18/04 The sacrament of seeing
01/11/04 It’s about trust
01/04/04 A sermon preached by The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA
01/04/04 Now for the journey
2003 Sermons
12/28/03 The light still shines
12/25/03 Room for joy: If I could meet the innkeeper
12/24/03 All hands joined at Christmas
12/14/03 An Advent parable
12/07/03 God’s leveling plan begins with you
11/30/03 Our day is dawning
11/23/03 What kind of king
11/16/03 Faith, the future and the flying trapeze
11/09/03 Two widows, two cracking hearts
11/02/03 The cluelessness of the saints
10/19/03 Following the servant-king
10/12/03 When you come to a fork in the road . . .
10/05/03 Blessing of the animals: our godly companions
10/05/03 Because of your hardness of heart
09/28/03 What I learned on someone else’s sabbatical
09/14/03 I believe. Help my unbelief.
08/31/03 Let’s talk about true religion
08/24/03 The Church: autocracy or democracy?
08/17/03 Little children, love one another
08/10/03 A time for healing
08/03/03 And what was the question?
07/27/03 Christ is with us
07/13/03 Sent out: the radical dismissal
07/06/03 A chance for a new start
06/29/03 The house that fear built
06/10/03 It doesn’t have to be that way
05/25/03 To know God is to love God
05/18/03 The presence of absence
05/04/03 Teachers of life, not death
04/27/03 Friends of Thomas
04/20/03 Easter 2003: The clown lives to tell
04/06/03 Which will it be?
03/30/03 What’s grace got to do with it?
03/23/03 The war within
03/16/03 Beyond knowing
03/09/03 A season for honesty
03/02/03 Whispering hope
02/23/03 First, forgive
02/16/03 Beyond stress management
02/09/03 From one pagan to the others
02/02/03 Let there be peace among us
http://www.stbarts.org/sermons/ser012603.htm
01/19/03 Nathanael and Dr. King: they came and saw
01/12/02 Are we safe here?
01/05/03 The three lessons of life
2002 Sermons
12/29/02 And that’s the rest of the story
12/25/02 Christmas Day A.D. 2002
12/24/02 There
was room in the inn, after all
12/22/02 Let it be
12/15/02 Out of time
12/08/02 Questions and answers worth living
12/01/02 Here we go again
11/24/02 Judging your life
11/17/02 Live in expectation (A sermon about what we didn’t do on Nov. 17)
11/10/02 This great, good, sacred place
11/03/02 Faith is not for wimps
10/27/02 Lessons from the #6 train
10/20/02 I have a dream
10/13/02 War or peace?
10/06/02 Are you giving what you’ve been given?
10/06/02 Blessing of the animals
9/29/02 Sour grapes, or the sweet life?
9/22/02 What kind of world?
9/15/02 The tools of faith
9/8/02 God breaks our hearts—open
9/1/02 A matter of death and life
8/25/02 WWJT: What was Jesus thinking?
8/18/02 Getting to yes
8/11/02 Walking on water
8/4/02 It’s not easy being kind
7/21/02 Be patient while weeding
7/14/02 How does faith grow?
7/7/02 Lightening life’s burden
6/30/02 Peace or a sword?
6/23/02 Profiles in courage
6/16/02 The bad news is good news
6/9/02 Saints and sinners
6/2/02 Beyond stupidity
5/26/02 Surrounded by God
5/19/02 God’s quickening Spirit
5/12/02 What next?
4/28/02 Trust and truth
4/21/02 Priming the pump
4/14/02 Breaking bread
3/31/02 Easter. Yeah. Uh-huh.
3/24/02 Where was God?
3/17/02 God-avoidance
3/3/02 The elements of the Spirit
2/24/02 You are a marvel
2/17/02 What’s wrong with the world
2/10/02 The gift, a changed life
2/3/02 Pointed foolishness
1/20/02 Come and see
1/13/02 True happiness
1/6/02 New Year smarts
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
02/06/05 Rise and shine, beloved ones!
01/30/05 Life with a capital L
01/30/05 “Complete are you . . . ”
01/23/05 Our deeper unity
01/16/05 Keep looking
01/09/05 Belonging, and staying
01/02/05 Finding faith to carry on
2004 Sermons
12/26/04 Growing up and becoming children of God
12/25/04 Joy, innocence, and generosity
12/24/04 A Christmas renovation
12/12/04 Beyond depression, a new Advent
12/19/04 Seeing reality through Mary
12/05/04 Grit or grace?
11/28/04 Remember the ark
11/21/04 Was Galileo wrong after all?
11/14/04 Attention must be paid
11/07/04 Practicing sainthood
10/31/04 The story of Zacchaeus
10/24/04 Election 2004: Part 2
10/17/04 Election 2004: Part 1
10/01/04 The lessons of the lepers
10/03/04 Grow up and grow into faith
09/26/04 Life with a warning label
09/26/04 Rich and poor alike
09/19/04 Moving forward
09/12/04 Sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk
09/05/04 Cost and promise
08/29/04 The work of welcome
08/22/04 A holy narrow-mindedness
08/15/04 No peace without conflict
08/08/04 Our
real source of security
07/25/04 The model for your prayer
07/18/04 More than a guest at the table
07/11/04 Join the Good Samaritan
07/04/04 What freedom is for
06/27/04 For freedom, Christ has set us free
06/24/04 Does God change? Can you?
06/13/04 Trapped: forgiven to forgive
06/06/04 The spacious poetry of the Trinity
05/23/04 Carried away by love
05/16/04 Idol thoughts
05/09/04 Love in a time of war
04/25/04 Knocked down, you can be raised up
04/18/04 Thomas’ doubts, and yours
04/11/04 (Easter Day) The risen life is not a movie
04/04/04 Dying to live
03/28/04 Good news from the vineyard
03/21/04 Amazing grace. Then what?
03/14/04 Your burning bush
03/07/04 The city is calling
02/29/04 Tempted but still struggling
02/25/04 What is your practice?
02/22/04 It’s what’s inside that counts
02/15/04We’re to be restless, not anxious
02/08/04 The good news about sin
02/02/04 It’s the outsiders
01/25/04 Saved from addiction
01/25/04 To make a better world
01/18/04 The sacrament of seeing
01/11/04 It’s about trust
01/04/04 A sermon preached by The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA
01/04/04 Now for the journey
2003 Sermons
12/28/03 The light still shines
12/25/03 Room for joy: If I could meet the innkeeper
12/24/03 All hands joined at Christmas
12/14/03 An Advent parable
12/07/03 God’s leveling plan begins with you
11/30/03 Our day is dawning
11/23/03 What kind of king
11/16/03 Faith, the future and the flying trapeze
11/09/03 Two widows, two cracking hearts
11/02/03 The cluelessness of the saints
10/19/03 Following the servant-king
10/12/03 When you come to a fork in the road . . .
10/05/03 Blessing of the animals: our godly companions
10/05/03 Because of your hardness of heart
09/28/03 What I learned on someone else’s sabbatical
09/14/03 I believe. Help my unbelief.
08/31/03 Let’s talk about true religion
08/24/03 The Church: autocracy or democracy?
08/17/03 Little children, love one another
08/10/03 A time for healing
08/03/03 And what was the question?
07/27/03 Christ is with us
07/13/03 Sent out: the radical dismissal
07/06/03 A chance for a new start
06/29/03 The house that fear built
06/10/03 It doesn’t have to be that way
05/25/03 To know God is to love God
05/18/03 The presence of absence
05/04/03 Teachers of life, not death
04/27/03 Friends of Thomas
04/20/03 Easter 2003: The clown lives to tell
04/06/03 Which will it be?
03/30/03 What’s grace got to do with it?
03/23/03 The war within
03/16/03 Beyond knowing
03/09/03 A season for honesty
03/02/03 Whispering hope
02/23/03 First, forgive
02/16/03 Beyond stress management
02/09/03 From one pagan to the others
02/02/03 Let there be peace among us
http://www.stbarts.org/sermons/ser012603.htm
01/19/03 Nathanael and Dr. King: they came and saw
01/12/02 Are we safe here?
01/05/03 The three lessons of life
2002 Sermons
12/29/02 And that’s the rest of the story
12/25/02 Christmas Day A.D. 2002
12/24/02 There
was room in the inn, after all
12/22/02 Let it be
12/15/02 Out of time
12/08/02 Questions and answers worth living
12/01/02 Here we go again
11/24/02 Judging your life
11/17/02 Live in expectation (A sermon about what we didn’t do on Nov. 17)
11/10/02 This great, good, sacred place
11/03/02 Faith is not for wimps
10/27/02 Lessons from the #6 train
10/20/02 I have a dream
10/13/02 War or peace?
10/06/02 Are you giving what you’ve been given?
10/06/02 Blessing of the animals
9/29/02 Sour grapes, or the sweet life?
9/22/02 What kind of world?
9/15/02 The tools of faith
9/8/02 God breaks our hearts—open
9/1/02 A matter of death and life
8/25/02 WWJT: What was Jesus thinking?
8/18/02 Getting to yes
8/11/02 Walking on water
8/4/02 It’s not easy being kind
7/21/02 Be patient while weeding
7/14/02 How does faith grow?
7/7/02 Lightening life’s burden
6/30/02 Peace or a sword?
6/23/02 Profiles in courage
6/16/02 The bad news is good news
6/9/02 Saints and sinners
6/2/02 Beyond stupidity
5/26/02 Surrounded by God
5/19/02 God’s quickening Spirit
5/12/02 What next?
4/28/02 Trust and truth
4/21/02 Priming the pump
4/14/02 Breaking bread
3/31/02 Easter. Yeah. Uh-huh.
3/24/02 Where was God?
3/17/02 God-avoidance
3/3/02 The elements of the Spirit
2/24/02 You are a marvel
2/17/02 What’s wrong with the world
2/10/02 The gift, a changed life
2/3/02 Pointed foolishness
1/20/02 Come and see
1/13/02 True happiness
1/6/02 New Year smarts
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
02/06/05 Rise and shine, beloved ones!
01/30/05 Life with a capital L
01/30/05 “Complete are you . . . ”
01/23/05 Our deeper unity
01/16/05 Keep looking
01/09/05 Belonging, and staying
01/02/05 Finding faith to carry on
2004 Sermons
12/26/04 Growing up and becoming children of God
12/25/04 Joy, innocence, and generosity
12/24/04 A Christmas renovation
12/12/04 Beyond depression, a new Advent
12/19/04 Seeing reality through Mary
12/05/04 Grit or grace?
11/28/04 Remember the ark
11/21/04 Was Galileo wrong after all?
11/14/04 Attention must be paid
11/07/04 Practicing sainthood
10/31/04 The story of Zacchaeus
10/24/04 Election 2004: Part 2
10/17/04 Election 2004: Part 1
10/01/04 The lessons of the lepers
10/03/04 Grow up and grow into faith
09/26/04 Life with a warning label
09/26/04 Rich and poor alike
09/19/04 Moving forward
09/12/04 Sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk
09/05/04 Cost and promise
08/29/04 The work of welcome
08/22/04 A holy narrow-mindedness
08/15/04 No peace without conflict
08/08/04 Our
real source of security
07/25/04 The model for your prayer
07/18/04 More than a guest at the table
07/11/04 Join the Good Samaritan
07/04/04 What freedom is for
06/27/04 For freedom, Christ has set us free
06/24/04 Does God change? Can you?
06/13/04 Trapped: forgiven to forgive
06/06/04 The spacious poetry of the Trinity
05/23/04 Carried away by love
05/16/04 Idol thoughts
05/09/04 Love in a time of war
04/25/04 Knocked down, you can be raised up
04/18/04 Thomas’ doubts, and yours
04/11/04 (Easter Day) The risen life is not a movie
04/04/04 Dying to live
03/28/04 Good news from the vineyard
03/21/04 Amazing grace. Then what?
03/14/04 Your burning bush
03/07/04 The city is calling
02/29/04 Tempted but still struggling
02/25/04 What is your practice?
02/22/04 It’s what’s inside that counts
02/15/04We’re to be restless, not anxious
02/08/04 The good news about sin
02/02/04 It’s the outsiders
01/25/04 Saved from addiction
01/25/04 To make a better world
01/18/04 The sacrament of seeing
01/11/04 It’s about trust
01/04/04 A sermon preached by The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA
01/04/04 Now for the journey
2003 Sermons
12/28/03 The light still shines
12/25/03 Room for joy: If I could meet the innkeeper
12/24/03 All hands joined at Christmas
12/14/03 An Advent parable
12/07/03 God’s leveling plan begins with you
11/30/03 Our day is dawning
11/23/03 What kind of king
11/16/03 Faith, the future and the flying trapeze
11/09/03 Two widows, two cracking hearts
11/02/03 The cluelessness of the saints
10/19/03 Following the servant-king
10/12/03 When you come to a fork in the road . . .
10/05/03 Blessing of the animals: our godly companions
10/05/03 Because of your hardness of heart
09/28/03 What I learned on someone else’s sabbatical
09/14/03 I believe. Help my unbelief.
08/31/03 Let’s talk about true religion
08/24/03 The Church: autocracy or democracy?
08/17/03 Little children, love one another
08/10/03 A time for healing
08/03/03 And what was the question?
07/27/03 Christ is with us
07/13/03 Sent out: the radical dismissal
07/06/03 A chance for a new start
06/29/03 The house that fear built
06/10/03 It doesn’t have to be that way
05/25/03 To know God is to love God
05/18/03 The presence of absence
05/04/03 Teachers of life, not death
04/27/03 Friends of Thomas
04/20/03 Easter 2003: The clown lives to tell
04/06/03 Which will it be?
03/30/03 What’s grace got to do with it?
03/23/03 The war within
03/16/03 Beyond knowing
03/09/03 A season for honesty
03/02/03 Whispering hope
02/23/03 First, forgive
02/16/03 Beyond stress management
02/09/03 From one pagan to the others
02/02/03 Let there be peace among us
http://www.stbarts.org/sermons/ser012603.htm
01/19/03 Nathanael and Dr. King: they came and saw
01/12/02 Are we safe here?
01/05/03 The three lessons of life
2002 Sermons
12/29/02 And that’s the rest of the story
12/25/02 Christmas Day A.D. 2002
12/24/02 There
was room in the inn, after all
12/22/02 Let it be
12/15/02 Out of time
12/08/02 Questions and answers worth living
12/01/02 Here we go again
11/24/02 Judging your life
11/17/02 Live in expectation (A sermon about what we didn’t do on Nov. 17)
11/10/02 This great, good, sacred place
11/03/02 Faith is not for wimps
10/27/02 Lessons from the #6 train
10/20/02 I have a dream
10/13/02 War or peace?
10/06/02 Are you giving what you’ve been given?
10/06/02 Blessing of the animals
9/29/02 Sour grapes, or the sweet life?
9/22/02 What kind of world?
9/15/02 The tools of faith
9/8/02 God breaks our hearts—open
9/1/02 A matter of death and life
8/25/02 WWJT: What was Jesus thinking?
8/18/02 Getting to yes
8/11/02 Walking on water
8/4/02 It’s not easy being kind
7/21/02 Be patient while weeding
7/14/02 How does faith grow?
7/7/02 Lightening life’s burden
6/30/02 Peace or a sword?
6/23/02 Profiles in courage
6/16/02 The bad news is good news
6/9/02 Saints and sinners
6/2/02 Beyond stupidity
5/26/02 Surrounded by God
5/19/02 God’s quickening Spirit
5/12/02 What next?
4/28/02 Trust and truth
4/21/02 Priming the pump
4/14/02 Breaking bread
3/31/02 Easter. Yeah. Uh-huh.
3/24/02 Where was God?
3/17/02 God-avoidance
3/3/02 The elements of the Spirit
2/24/02 You are a marvel
2/17/02 What’s wrong with the world
2/10/02 The gift, a changed life
2/3/02 Pointed foolishness
1/20/02 Come and see
1/13/02 True happiness
1/6/02 New Year smarts
Rabbi Schoolman's High Holy Day Sermons
06/25/06 Don't Rock the boat
06/18/06 In sync with God
06/18/06 Jesus, the professor, and the madman
06/04/06 A rose is a rose, and the church is the church
05/28/06 Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus: good, true, and beautiful
05/21/06 Love: Jesus' last will and testament
05/14/06 Don't go it alone
05/07/06 The model shepherd
04/30/06 Be afraid. Be
very afraid.
04/23/06 Absent Thomas’s gift to the church
04/16/06 Easter: Read it again, children
04/09/06 In his Passion, Jesus hands us his hand
04/02/06 See Jesus See
03/26/06 Serpents and skids
03/19/06 A righteous rant: a renewal of religion
03/12/06 Satan, Margaret Mead and you
03/05/06 Lent: the new normal
02/26/06 “Catching electrons”
02/19/06 Jesus, still a “new thing”
02/12/06 Jesus healing Jesus
02/12/06 Overcoming your resistance
02/05/06 Healing happens . . . how?
01/29/06 Word becomes flesh, and the chickens come home
01/22/06 Call and giftedness
01/15/06 A new era for you
01/08/06 Baptism: going public
01/02/06 Holy naming and seeing
2005 Sermons
12/25/05 The mystery of incarnation
12/24/05 Christ in the person next to you
12/24/05 A Christmas story in a Santa world
12/18/05 Is Mary still necessary?
12/11/05 Expect the light
12/04/05 Where is God?
11/27/05 Beware, keep alert
11/27/05 Advent: a breath of dead air
11/20/05 Come and inherit
11/13/05 All the difference
11/06/05 Blessed are those who know their need
10/30/05 Formation: not just another churchy word
10/30/05 “Power tends to corrupt . . . ”
10/23/05 Nasty?
10/23/05 God help us!
10/16/05 Caesar, Cyrus, God—and your hierarchy of needs
10/16/05 God and Caesar—Christian responsibility in the public arena
10/09/05 We are God’s stories
10/02/05 An affair of the heart (October 2, 2005)
10/02/05 Paws for thought
09/25/05 Katrina, Rita, and flight 292
09/18/05 God’s economy
09/11/05 “9.11.2005: Terror, hurricane and transformation”
09/04/05 Forming a family out of strangers
08/28/05 Moses and Peter: coming to our real selves
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (Kevin Bean)
08/21/05 But who do you say that I am? (J.D. Clarke)
08/07/05 That sinking feeling
07/31/05 You have enough
07/24/05 Let it grow
07/24/05 Did you hear the one about . . . ?
07/17/05 Laboring in a messy field
07/10/05 Finding your parable
07/03/05 Spiritual, biblical and civic understandings of freedom
06/26/05 Welcome: close, personal, specific and human
06/26/05 Until we get it right
06/19/05 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword”
06/12/05 Do you have an attitude?
06/05/05 The power of forgiveness
05/22/05
You are the Great Commission
05/15/05 Love, sweet love
05/15/05 Are you “spirit-filled?”
05/08/05 “So that they may be one, as we are one”
05/01/05 “Googling” God
04/24/05 The Church as showroom floor
04/17/05 The shepherd and the gate: ownership and relationship
04/07/05 Whose hearts God had touched
04/03/05 Words you need to hear
04/03/05 Easter: Loosing the bonds
03/27/05 Lighten your load
03/20/05 What’s keeping you away?
03/13/05 “I am the resurrection and the life”
03/06/05 God does not make junk
02/27/05 Reaching out and reaching across
02/20/05 Free as the wind
02/20/05 Saved every time
02/13/05 Tempted?
