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Sunday Sermons 2009

 Full text transcripts & streaming audio of our Sunday sermons.

December 27, 2009 - We Have God's DNA

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December 20, 2009 - Signs! Signs! Signs!

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December 13, 2009 - Elizabeth's Benediction

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December 6, 2009 - When Gabriel Comes Knocking

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November 29, 2009 - The Advent Agenda, St. Luke

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November 22, 2009 - Thanks for Nothing

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November 15, 2009 - God: The Shepherd

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November 8, 2009 - With Groans Too Deep For Words

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November 1, 2009 - Season of the Heart

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October 25, 2009 - When God Opens Our Eyes

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October 18, 2009 - Excel In Generosity

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October 11, 2009 - Our Ministry: Treasure In Earthen Jars

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October 4, 2009 - Disciples DNA

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September 27, 2009 - Welcome The Stranger

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September 20, 2009 - Martyrs, Golf, & Other Matters

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September 13, 2009 - Lessons from Sabbatical

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September 6, 2009 - Right Speech

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August 30, 2009 - An Eleven Word Sermon

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August 23, 2009 - At Home With God

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August 16, 2009 - Choosing the Unconditional

We have a model in our text today for faith that we share: a faith that first and foremost seeks the good of God?s kingdom, rather than the easy, selfish and private interests of our personal selves.
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August 9, 2009 - Family, Faith, & Finances!

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August 2, 2009 - What Are We Looking For?

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July 26, 2009 - Trademark of Love

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July 19, 2009 - You Give Them Something to Eat

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July 12, 2009 - Dance Lessons

Can we risk giving ourselves completely to the steady rhythm of God?s love? Dancing with all our heart, mind, soul and strength in response to God?s presence with us?
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July 5, 2009 - Coming Home, Sending Out

For one thing, it seems to be the people who have known Jesus the longest who have the hardest time accepting who he is. And it may be that the same is true for Christians in the early church.
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June 28, 2009 Forgiveness as a Way of Being

The mechanics of forgiveness seem to be beside the point for Jesus--who, how often, and under what conditions. Jesus' response. Jesus says that we are to forgive an infinite number of times.
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June 21, 2009 A Word to the Storm

It?s such a human thing, to be afraid in the midst of danger. That?s why we can so readily identify with Jesus? disciples when their boat is caught in a windstorm on the Sea of Galilee.
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June 14, 2009 - Soil, Seeds, and Shrubs

It would be obvious to say the kingdom of God is like the mighty oak or the Lebanon cedar that also starts from small seeds, but instead Jesus surprises his listeners by saying God?s reign is like a little mustard seed.
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June 7, 2009 - Listening for God's Voice in the Storm

We are part of a system to nurture and help others grow, each one with a unique gift. We know that even in the midst of horrible storms that the one true God reigns and sustains.
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May 31, 2009 - Houston, We Have... - Alan Lobaugh

You tell me that you have a problem with someone. I tell you that you have an opportunity with that one. It is hard work to begin a conversation, not a debate, not an argument, but a conversation that begins with listening.
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May 24, 2009 - Jesus in the House-Dani Loving Cartwright

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May 17, 2009 - Can Anyone Withhold? - Tim Carson

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May 11, 2009 - Youth Sunday

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May 3, 2009 - In Truth and Action - Tim Carson

The smallest act of kindness can change the world. The smallest act of courage can inspire the most fear ridden soul.
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April 26, 2009 - The Parable of the Conspicuous Consumer

The subconscious, the depths of the spirit, that deep well of our awareness, has no garbage disposal at the bottom.
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April 19, 2009 - You Don't Have to Be Wrong...

Religion has an especially bad track record in setting up false dichotomies, false dilemmas, and false either-or choices. So does politics.
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April 12, 2009 - Choose Your Ending -Tim Carson

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April 12, 2009 - Sunise Service - Alan Lobaugh

How do we rekindle the original fire of this day? How can we be renewed by this incredible news?
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April 9, 2009 - Maundy Thursday Meditation - Tim Carson

It is so easy to forget, to get lost, sidetracked and misguided by others who are themselves misguided. And no one is spared from that dilemma.
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April 5, 2009 - The Day After Palms - Tim Carson

Have you ever visited an incredibly sacred space, and were moved and humbled by the experience, only to encounter rows of tourist souvenir booths right outside the door?
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March 29, 2009 - Healers - Dr. Tim Carson

Although we are much more than the labels we affix to others or ourselves the failure of our spiritual imagination keeps shrinking us.
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March 22, 2009 - Dr. Serene Jones, Guest Minister

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March 15, 2009 - Partners - Tim Carson

?I know you Disciples don?t necessarily go out in that kind of pattern. But have you ever thought that you could apply the same principles in your own tradition??
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March 8, 2009 - Companions - Tim Carson

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March 1, 2009 - Transformers - Tim Carson

Now repentance is essential and important; there is no substitute for it. But transformation takes it to another level.
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February 25, 2009 - Ash Wednesday Meditation

It is an Ash Wednesday question that does not sugar-coat suffering, violence done to others and the moral dilemma of what to do with them.
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February 22, 2009 - Passing the Mantle - Tim Carson

We enter into self-examination, identify what it is that tears us away from God and neighbor, dare to put some things down and take other things up.
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February 15, 2009 - Compassion, Touch, & Healing

But what if alone is not elective? And what if there is no longer a place with others for me?
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February 8, 2009 - Reality Check

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February 1, 2009 - The Expulsive Presence

you can be delivered from the powers that bind you. Yes, there are sacred powers of liberation that will loosen the bonds and lift the weight.
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January 25, 2009 - Urgent Matters

We need to begin talking about the things that inspire us from the inside out, not the outside in.
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January 18, 2009 - You Could Say No

It is remarkable how easily we can confuse what is happening to us, and even miss when the Deep calls to the deep places in us.
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January 11, 2009 - Waters of Life - Tim Carson

Have you ever considered that Jesus would never have experienced that raw confirmation of his identity and call, his ultimate purpose in life until he put himself in the waters?
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January 4, 2009 - Jesus as Icon

When our prayers rise with incense to the unfinished portrait of the reigning Christ on that vault somewhere between heaven and earth, the paint is still wet.
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