Sermons

May 12, 2013
SPICED: The Dreamer read more...
 In our world it is easy to become jaded, cynical and skeptical.  Everyone is out for their own.  Everyone is working an angle.  You need someone in your life who is able to dream about what could be to balance out all the voices griping over what currently is.
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May 4, 2008
Why are You Thinking These Things? read more...
Would this question help us recognized the wrong headed ideas we have about who God is and how he works? What core values is Jesus challenging by asking this question of the Teachers of the Law? How does it challenge our values?
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May 11, 2008
Which is Lawful on the Sabbath: To do Good or to do Evil? read more...
Mindlessly marching through the mundane while thinking that God is pleased frequently misses the heart of God. What probing insight did Jesus hope to evoke in his hearers by contrasting healing and killing?
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May 18, 2008
Why are You so Afraid? Do You Still Have No Faith? read more...
Christians today still struggle to balance a seemingly unresponsive God with the overwhelming storms of life. At the end of the story the disciples were terrified for a very different reason.
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July 6, 2008
How Many Loaves Do You Have? read more...
When do interruptions become opportunities and how can we learn to recognize them? Why is setting aside our own agenda a prerequisite in discerning such teachable moments?
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July 13, 2008
You Mean You Still Don’t Have it Figured Out Yet? read more...
When our focus is riveted to external standards we position ourselves toward self-righteousness and distance ourselves from the things that really matter to God.
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July 20, 2008
Leave Her Alone, Why are You Bothering Her? read more...
Dark purposes and betrayal bookend this beautiful story of unselfish love. Jesus’ question is really a ‘motive’ question that struck at the hearts of his hearers. What attempts to we make to interrupt the beauty of heart-felt worship today?
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July 27, 2008
Do You See Anything? read more...
From the Pharisees demanding a sign to the disciples’ inability to connect leaven with spiritual insight, the story of the blind man emerges as an object lesson that we still need today.
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August 3, 2008
Who Do You Say I Am? read more...
The anonymity of being just another face in the crowd exempts us from making any personal commitment. Jesus’ question was, and is, intended to move people from the Crowd to the Committed.
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August 10, 2008
Why do You Call Me Good? read more...
Jesus had a unique way of turning comments into questions that probed deeply into the facades of manmade religion. What does ‘good’ look like through the eyes of the Messiah?
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