Sermon Podcast
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Sheep, Goats, or the Least of These?
We all hope we’re sheep, and even Mister Rogers was a little worried he was a goat, but hardly anybody wants to admit to being The Least of These, even though we all are at one time or another.
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Tell Somebody Thank You
In today’s text, Jesus is disappointed because 9 people he healed didn’t come back to say thank you. If Jesus, fully human and fully God, appreciated a thank-you, how much more do the people who have shaped your life for good?
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You Had One Job
The parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25 can be scary if you grew up hearing it meant that if you weren’t ready, you go to hell, but Pastor David thinks this story is about something else.
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How Saints Get Made
They’re just like the rest of us: doing what they think they’re supposed to. Maybe the difference is in what they think they’re called to do.
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You Shall Love
Our relationships with God have seasons. Sometimes we feel more like we love God, and sometimes we feel less that way, but God in love always loves us, and faithfully helps us grow in love for God and our neighbors.
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Where is God’s Justice Now?
Psalm 99:4 says God has “established equity; …executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.” Where is God’s justice seen today? On the cross, where God forever joined the oppressed as judgment against the powerful.
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…And Out Leapt This Calf!
The golden calf replaces Community with Conjuring, a Dynamic God with a Static one, and the weakness of the (not-yet-known) Crosswith the strength of a Calf.
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You Didn’t Build That
On first glance, the parable of the tenants may look like the story of a landowner demanding a share of the value created by others based only on the fact that he owns the land, but if we look closer, we might see how very little of that value the tenants actually created, and how…
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Authenticity as Authority
When the chief priests and elders ask Jesus by what authority he is doing the things he does, he inverts the relationship between authority and action. The people who have authority are those who can tell the truth about when faith doesn’t work the way we were told it was supposed to.
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After Egypt
After God delivers Israel from Egypt and they cross the Red Sea, their situation isn’t immediately better. In fact, it seems much worse. They find themselves in the wilderness. That happens sometimes when we leave impossible situations. But this story teaches us that God is with us in the wilderness.