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Prove It

Where we place our earthly treasure reveals something about what we value in our hearts. How we handle our money has a remarkably formative effect on our hearts, much more powerful than anything we say. For good or for ill. Think for a moment about your annual expenses. Where does your money go? What does it say about what you value? It is easy to make an idol out of money, or out of the things money can buy. Jesus provides us with a different way. Instead of seeking after more and more, Jesus seeks to give more and more.

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The Near and Distant God

The tension between God’s “closeness” and his “otherness,” his transcendence and his immanence, is part of what led to the doctrine of the Trinity in the early Church. As Christians we believe that God is one God in three Persons. It is hard to get our mind around how this could be, and yet, this is how God has revealed himself to us. It is Jesus, the second person of the Trinity and the “image of the invisible God” who reconnects us with our heavenly Father and makes the distant God near to us once more. For those of us who are “in Christ,” God now dwells within us in the person of the Holy Spirit!

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Present in the Midst of the Storm

Year A – Proper 14 Jonah 2:1-9; Psalm 29; Romans 9:1-5; Matthew 14:22-33   Did you ever get in trouble for doing the right thing?  It happens often enough! Whistleblowers…

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Bread in the Wilderness

Year A – Pentecost 8-3 Nehemiah 9:16-21; Psalm 78:13-25; Romans 8:35-39; Matthew 14:13-21 Children’s Sermon Hudson Taylor, Missionary to China in the late 1800s Suddenly left in charge of a…

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Meet the Word

John designed his Gospel to introduce people to Jesus and to help them “believe that [he] is the Christ, the Son of God” so that they can “have life in his name” (John 20:31). To really know someone, you have to know their story. How do you introduce yourself to someone you have never met before? What do you say about yourself? What do you want to know about that new person? What is their name? Where do they come from? Who are their people? What are their interests? The prologue to the Gospel of John answers these kinds of questions as it introduces us to Jesus, the Word.

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Missional Stewardship of God’s Resources

Sermon 2017-10-08 – 1030 – Christopher KlukasMissional Stewardship of God’s Resources  2017-10-08 – Year A – Pentecost 10-18 – The Rev. Christopher Klukas Isaiah 45:1-7; Psalm 96; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10;…

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Charlottesville, Race, and the Kingdom of God

Year A – Pentecost 8-17 Isaiah 56:1–8; Psalm 67; Romans 11:13–24; Matthew 15:21–28   “Unite the Right” White Nationalist Rally – Charlottesville, VA Matthew Heimbach, leader of the Charlottesville rally,…

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Joy for the Sinner Who Repents

Who do you identify with in the story of the laborers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16)? Are you the one who worked all day or the one who signed on at the 11th hour? There is a temptation to become prideful about our own obedience to Christ, this pride often comes with looking down on others. Pride can also lead to anger when we think we are not being properly recognized for our achievements.
This parable is begun and ended with the same phrase. “The last will be first, and the first last.”

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Responding to the Resurrection

How do we respond to the offer of new life given through the Resurrection of Jesus? For ages Christians have used the language of “turning” to talk about putting our faith in Christ. To receive the new life he offers, we need to turn our backs on all the sources of temptation and set out hearts on Christ. This is what we mean by the word “Repentance.”

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