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Tag Archives: God
Gather in Joy – a sermon for our first Sunday in our new sanctuary
Can you believe it?! I never doubted we would get here, really, but we have been talking about needing a bigger sanctuary since I started at Foothills 11 years ago, and that conversation had been going on long before I … Continue reading
What Punishments of God Are Not Gifts? Job and the Hope of a Mysterious God
For a long time, Job agrees with Stephen Colbert. You know, Job. The one whose life was the epitome of #blessed. That is, until he lost everything. His money. His land. All ten of his children. Even his own health. By … Continue reading
More Than Enough
Reading: The Church Where Everything Goes Wrong by Elea Kemler Sermon: More than Enough Like a lot of teenagers, my daughter really does not love getting up in the morning. Instead she loves her cozy bed, and the sweet dark of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Change, Church, Community, Covenant, Emerson, Enough, Faith, God, Grace, Love, pandemic, Post-pandemic, Recovery, Resilience, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, Transcendentalism, Transcendentalists, Trauma
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Abide With Me
What is the thread that connects us as a people, the unique comfort and calling of our community pressing upon each of us willing to tend to it, to be tended by it? What is the thread that connects your … Continue reading
God With Us – Christmas 2020
It never fails that Christmas comes when I’m not quite ready. It’s a particularly problematic given my profession, but I know I’m not alone. It’s always such a shock after Thanksgiving, here comes December, and the rush of balancing it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas Eve, Companion, Expectation, God, Grace, Hope, Human, Humanity, Jesus, Partner, Preparation, Presence, Sermon, Sermons
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God is Trans – Sermon July 15 2018
First Reading – From William Ellery Channing’s Likeness to God Second Reading – God Says Yes to Me by Kaylin Haught Sermon – God is Trans A couple of weeks ago, I got into a fight with a stranger on … Continue reading
A/Part: God as Presence, Partner, and Process
Last Sunday, Sean ended his sermon on Humanist Becoming by reminding us of this picture. It is the image that Carl Sagan describes as the pale blue dot of earth. “Look at that dot.” He says. “That’s here. That’s home. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Sagan, Einstein, Emergence, evolution, Faith, God, Process Theology, Religion, Science, Science and Faith, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, Worship
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When God Had a Body
Text: The Education of God – The Incarnation by David Bumbaugh Sermon “When God Had a Body,” December 11, 2016 New Testament scholar and sometimes-skeptic Bart Ehrman tells the story of one special person who lived about 2000 years ago. … Continue reading
Thin Places
Reading for this service, “Thin Places” by John Crossley Morgan Sermon preached August 14, 2016 You can find the audio of this sermon here. The story of my “thin place” is not a tale of a trip to a Celtic abbey, … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Holy, Pilgrimage, Place, Sacred Place, Sermon, Sermons, Spirituality
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