2011 Sermons
Christmas Day 12/25/2011
Christmas worship in the daytime always feels different to me than Christmas worship at night.
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Christmas Eve 12/24/2011
After reading the Gospel lesson at this service it always feels like there isn’t a need to say much more.
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Advent 12/18/2011
Today, on this Fourth Sunday of Advent, with the Gospel lesson I just read, we move more into what we think of as the Christmas Story.
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Advent 12/11/2011
In the lessons for today we’re still in Advent, more in the mode of just hearing faint hints of things to come as again this week there is nothing in the lessons that connects directly to the Christmas story, only hints.
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Advent 12/04/2011
On this Second Sunday of Advent, we continue to be out of step with the wider culture’s observance of this season.
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Advent 11/27/2011
The story begins again on this First Sunday of Advent. For Christians, our story is the Jesus story; the cycle of the church year takes us through that story.
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Thanksgiving 11/22/2011
Rev. Scott Lindenberg
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Christ the King 11/21/2011
Christology is probably not a word most of you are familiar with but you’re probably smart enough to figure out what it means.
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Pentecost 11/13/2011
This parable is so familiar that it has become a cliché.
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All Saints Sunday 11/06/2011
These words of blessing were just as stunning to those who heard them from Jesus’ own lips as they are to us today.
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Chrys Levesque Hendrick
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All Hallows Eve 10/30/2011
Well Halloween is evil, you know that right? That's what some would say.
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Pentecost 10/23/2011
I’m a sucker for a happy ending....
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Pentecost 10/16/2011
Today’s gospel, the “render unto Caesar” text, at first seems like it would be more appropriate for stewardship Sunday....
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Pentecost 10/09/2011
It’s one of those weeks when there isn’t much gospel in the gospel, not much good news ....
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Pentecost 10/02/2011
As I talked about last week, Moses’ life couldn’t have been all that easy.
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Pentecost 09/25/2011
On Sunday Morning we turn it off and we gather for worship. And what we do in worship is different from anything we do the rest of the week...
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Pentecost 09/18/2011
OK, I get it. This parable of the laborers in the vineyard is about God’s grace; it’s about the fact that the rules in God’s kingdom are different, you don’t earn God’s grace....
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Pentecost 09/11/2011
Ten years ago, right about now, the numbing significance of what was happening in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania on that Tuesday morning was starting to sink in.
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Pentecost 09/04/2011
You’re all faithful church members, here on a holiday weekend at the end of summer, so I’m sure you could all recite the Ten Commandments for me.
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Pentecost 08/28/2011
Moses has been described as having had an “interrupted life” and I think interrupted life is an idea worth thinking about.
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Pentecost 08/21/2011
Peter passed the test. When Jesus surprised the disciples with a pop quiz Peter had the correct answer to “Who do you say that I am?” He got it.
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Pentecost 08/14/2011
In the past month or so I attended both the ordination and the installation of Dave Johnson the new pastor at Faith.
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Pentecost 08/07/2011
I have a confession to make.… I absolutely cannot put myself into the disciples’ experience. Pastor Chrys Levesque Hendrick
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Pentecost 07/31/2011
According to legend, the Apostles’ Creed was composed by the Apostles, having been inspired by the Holy Spirit, on the tenth day after the Ascension of Jesus with each of the twelve apostles contributing one clause.
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Pentecost 07/24/2011
“Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob;” so it says in Matthew 1:2, the beginning of the genealogy of Jesus.
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Pentecost 07/10/2011
Now hold it right there. What if that’s all we had, that there was no explanation in subsequent verses?
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Pentecost 07/03/2011
If the promise to Abraham about offspring as numerous as the stars was to come true, Isaac needed a wife.
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Pentecost 06/26/2011
Abraham is one of the key figures of the Bible, the father of the Jewish people with many stories and references concerning him in both testaments.
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Holy Trinity Sunday - 06/19/2011
The doctrine of the Trinity was a product of controversy.
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Pentecost 06/12/2011
Things were out of control in the house where the disciples and others had gathered.
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Easter 06/05/2011
What is glory? What do you think of when you hear that word?
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Ascension 06/02/2011
“Lord is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"
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Easter 05/29/2011
The reading from Acts last week had to do with the stoning of Stephen, the story of the first Christian to die for his faith.
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Easter 05/22/2011
The name Rob Bell probably doesn’t mean a lot to you; it doesn’t mean that much to me either but from what I know about him, I think he and I agree on some things.
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Easter 05/15/2011
By the Fourth Sunday of Easter it does get a little hard to keep the Easter glow going.
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Easter 05/08/2011
For Cleopas it was time to go home. There wasn’t much reason to stay in Jerusalem.
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Easter 05/01/2011
Showing up for church the Sunday after Easter seems a little bit like showing up late for a party.
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Easter Sunday 04/24/2011
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary never saw it coming; how could they? People didn’t rise from the dead, then, now or ever; it didn’t happen.
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Good Friday 04/22/2011
It is finished. In John’s gospel those are Jesus’ last words from the cross.
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Maundy Thursday 04/21/2011
It’s hard to fully imagine the scene we think about tonight, especially the contrast between what was going on inside and what was going on outside.
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Lent 04/10/2011
Many of you probably remember the days of school clothes, play clothes and church clothes.
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Lent 04/03/2011
And so we come to the best known of all the psalms, maybe the best known six verses in the whole Bible.
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Lent 03/27/2011
Today the encounter is with a woman, a Samaritan, a marginal member of society who comes to Jesus in broad daylight.
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Lent 03/20/2011
There’s probably no theme I return to more often than that of “faith as a journey.”
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Lent 03/13/11
Confession of sin is central to Ash
Wednesday, but on this first Sunday in Lent sin is still very much on the agenda.
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Ash Wednesday 03/09/2011
There's a story you may have heard about a woman who dies and
encounters St. Peter at the pearly gates of heaven.
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Transfiguration 03/06/2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever been quite so ready for and happy about Transfiguration Sunday as I am this year.
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Epiphany 02/27/2011
It might have been nice if Easter was a week earlier and we could have avoided today’s gospel text.
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Epiphany 02/20/2011
With the Sermon on the Mount one thing seems indisputable - Jesus must have meant what he said because he kept hammering away at the same themes.
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Epiphany 02/13/2011
You have heard that it was said, you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not bear false witness.
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Epiphany 02/06/2011
Today we see the other role of a prophet, a role defined by telling it like it is....
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Epiphany 01/30/2011
I pick up where I left off last week: are we disciples or are we just part of the crowd?
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Epiphany - 01/23/2011
Liturgically, we’re now in what is called “ordinary” time.
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Epiphany - 01/16/2011
“What are you looking for?” Jesus asks, and the disciples respond, “Where are you staying?”
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Baptism of Our Lord - 01/09/2011
“Who am I? Why am I here?”
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Epiphany - 01/06/2011
The story of the Wise Men is at the center of Matthew’s telling of the nativity story.
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Christmas - 01/02/2011
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God,” and so begins John’s gospel.
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