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Freedom for Life in the Spirit

Sunday, June 29, 2025 – 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21, Psalm 16, Galatians 5:1, 13-25, Luke 9:51-62 Though there is a lot of rich material in all of our readings, today, I’d like to explore the idea of freedom. What does freedom mean to you? In the gospel of John, Jesus says If you abide in […]

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Out of Hiding, Into Wholeness

Sunday, June 22, 2025 – Isaiah 65:1-9, Psalm 22:19-28, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39 I want to begin today with a question: Have you ever felt as though God is far away—perhaps hidden or silent just when you needed God most? One of those childhood games that never seems to go out of fashion is hide

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Dancing with Trinity: Embracing the Flow of God’s Wisdom

Sunday, June 15, 2025 – Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31, Psalm 8, Romans 5:1-5, John 16:12-15 When you think about God, what do you imagine God to be like? What is the image in your mind? Do you image God as a white-bearded man sitting on a throne in the sky? Or like the painting of God

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Fire’s Revelation and Commandment, Shavuot and Pentecost

Sunday, June 8, 2025, Pentecost – Acts 2:1-21 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\”\”] Light, Love, and Healing in the Command to Transform the World I\’d like to thank Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison for the inspiration for this sermon. We co-led a \”Prelude to Pentecost What is Ours to Do?\” worship at the Haden Institute Summer Dream & Spirituality

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Everything Changes in the Light of Love

Sunday, May 18 – Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\”\”]Have you ever had the experience of something that you initially thought was a bad thing turning into a good thing? When I lost my job at the University of the South during Covid in 2020, I was devastated. I didn’t necessarily

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Who Gives Us Life?

Sunday, May 11, 2025 – Acts 9:36-43, Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30 Who gives us life? In the everyday sense, we know that our mothers give us life (with our fathers\’ help of course!). There’s not a human soul who has ever walked the earth that was not birthed by a mother. Many women,

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Resistance Melts in the Arms of Love

Sunday, May 4 – Acts 9:1-6 [7-20], Psalm 30, Revelation 5:11-14, John 21:1-19 I’m currently reading a book called Why Religion Went Obsolete, by Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame (see his conversation with Tripp Fuller below). In it, Smith writes about societal movements and changes since the 1990s that came

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The Passion: The Loving Heart of God

Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 – Luke 24:1-12 Years ago, I visited a Shroud of Turin exhibit that was housed in the CNN center in downtown Atlanta. The Shroud itself wasn’t there, but large photographs were everywhere that showed very clearly what probably happened to Jesus. It was a very emotional experience. So, when the

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Journey to the Passion: Shattered Hearts

April 13, 2025, Passion Sunday – Luke 19:28-40, Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Philippians 2:5-11, Luke 22:14—23:56 We began this service with Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on the donkey as the people waved palms and shouted “Hosanna!” We’ve just heard the whole passion narrative that begins with the final supper that Jesus shared with his closest

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Journey to the Passion: Resentful Hearts

Sunday, March 30, Lent 4 – Joshua 5:9-12, Psalm 32, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\”\”]I stood in the library of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, preparing to leave for a spiritual retreat the next day at the Greenbough House of Prayer in middle Georgia. I pulled Henri Nouwen’s book The Return

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