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All God’s Critters Have a Place – sermon on September 13, 2015
” Inheriting the Kingdom” – Nov 20, 2011 Sermon
” Mighty Hard Stuff” – Sermon on Oct 14, 2012
“A Fool for Love” Sermon on March 14, 2010
“A Gated Community” – Sermon on May 15, 2011
“A Great Light: Seeing and Being” – Jan 23, 2011
“A Matter of When, A Matter of Why” – Sermon May 19, 2013
“Abiding With You” – Sermon on May 29, 2011
“Ain’t Gonna Study War No More” – Nov 28, 2010
“All That Is Possible” – Easter Sermon March 31, 2013
“Am I My Brother’s (& Sister’s) Keeper?”
“Are You the One?” – Dec 12, 2010
“Awestruck” – June 3, 2012 Sermon
“Being the Best” – Sermon on Sept 25, 2011
“Between the Beginning and the End” – Oct 23, 2011 Sermon
“Beyond What We Could Imagine” – Sermon on Aug 26, 2012 Guest speaker Chris Cathcard
“Blasphemy!” – April 21, 2013 Sermon
“Blessed Are You” – May 5, 2013 Sermon
“Blessed” – Sermon on Jan 30, 2011
“Born of the Spirit” – Sermon on March 20, 2011
“Bread from Heaven” – Sermon on Aug 12, 2012
“Burning Love” – Sermon Aug 18, 2013
“By Turning, Turning We Come ‘Round Right”
“Call and Response” – Jan 15, 2012 Sermon
“Called Out” – Jan 9, 2011
“Can I Get a Witness?” – Sermon on 4/22/2012
“Cast Away” – Sermon on Oct 16, 2011
“Choosing What is Better” – Sermon on July 21, 2013
“Church Marketing 101” Sermon on March 11, 2012
“Coming and Going and Staying” – Sermon on May 13, 2012
“Compassion and Survival” – Sermon on July 14, 2013
“Costly Acts of Love” – March 17, 2013 Sermon
“Dealing With Rejection” – sermon on October 12, 2014
“Facing Fear, Finding Freedom” – Sermon on Sept 4, 2011
“Faith as a Verb” – Sermon on Aug 5, 2012
“Faith Works” – Sermon on Oct 6, 2013
“Faith, Hope and Love Abide” – Sermon on Dec 1, 2013
“Fight, Flight, and Faith”- June 24, 2012 Sermon
“Finding Our Place” – Sermon on Sept. 1, 2013
“Found Out” – Sermon on Sept 15, 2013
“From Here to There” – Sermon on 4/15/12
“Fulfilled in One Body” – Sermon on Jan 27, 2013
“Giving It All to Get It All” – Sermon on Oct 7, 2012
“God and Mammon” – Feb 27, 2011
“Going Once, Twice, Three Times” – Sermon on June 19, 2011
“Good Grief” – Sermon on Sept 22, 2013
“Good Intentions” – Nov 6, 2011 Sermon
“Grace Through the Ages” – Jan 8, 2012 Sermon
“Great Welcome, Part 2 ” – Sermon on Sept 30, 2012
“Great Welcome” – Sermon on Sept 23, 2012
“Healing and Wholeness” – Sermon on Oct 13, 2013
“Highly Favored” – Sermon Dec 23, 2012
“Holy Longing” – March 3, 2013 Sermon
“Holy Visions, Holy Voices” – Sermon on March 6, 2011
“Home by a Different Route” – Jan 2, 2011
“How Does Your Garden Grow?” – Sermon on July 17, 2011
“I Lay Down My Life” – Sermon on 4/29/12
“I Love A Parade” Sermon on April 17, 2011
“Intervention” – Sermon on Aug 25, 2013
“It’s Time” – Sermon on Jan 20, 2013
“Jesus Is On the Loose” – Easter Sermon 2012
“Just a Little Bit More” – Sermon on Feb 13, 2011
“Keeping Clean in the Dirt” – Sermon on Aug 19, 2012
“Keeping Heart”- Sermon on Oct 20, 2013
“Kept From Seeing” Sermon on May 8, 2011
“King and Un-King” – Sermon on July 29, 2012
“Knowing You” – Sermon on March 27, 2011
“Let It Begin With Me” – Sermon on Dec 8, 2013
“Let’s Not Come Unhinged”- Nov 4, 2012 Sermon
“Looking Up, or Looking Out?” – Sermon on June 5, 2011
“Lord of the Dance”- July 15, 2012 Sermon
“Lost in Translations”
“Love and Other Surprises”- Sermon on Feb 3, 2013
“Making a Difference without Making a Fuss” – sermon on August 24, 2014
“Making Impressions” – Sermon on Nov 11, 2012
“Making Sense” – May 27, 2012 Sermon
“More Than a Mile” – Sermon on Feb 20, 2011
“My Soul Waits” – Sermon on Nov 27, 2011
“Never Too Late” Sermon on April 10, 2011
“Ours the Journey” – Sermon on Jan 6, 2012
“People!” – Sermon on Jan 26, 2014
“People!” – Sermon on Jan 26, 2014
“Plan B” – Sermon on July 3, 2011
“Powerful Presence” – Sermon on June 23, 2013
“Promises Beyond Imagining” – Sermon on Dec 2, 2012
“Ready or Not” – Sermon on Nov 17, 2013
“Reign Down Your Love” – Nov 21, 2010
“Rejoice and Be Glad” – sermon on February 2, 2014
“Render Unto God” – Sermon on Oct 9, 2011
“Repent and Rejoice” – Sermon on Dec 9, 2012
“Restoration” – Oct 28, 2012 Sermon
“Salt in an Open Wound” – sermon on February 9, 2014
“Salty and Sparkly” – Sermon on Feb 6, 2011
“Salvation – By God or From God?” – Sermon 3/18/12
“Salvation: By God or From God? Pt. 2” – Sermon on 3/25/12
“Say What?!” – Sermon on Sept 9, 2012
“Stand Firm” – Nov 18, 2012 Sermon
“Storming the Gates” – Sermon on Aug 21, 2011
“Take a Break” – Sermon on July 22, 2012
“The Answer of a Girl” – Dec 11,2011 Sermon
“The Birthplace of Joy”- Sermon on Dec 15, 2013
“The Debt Crisis” – Sermon on Sept 11, 2011
“The Gift of Receiving” – Dec 26, 2010
“The God-Shaped Hole” – Sermon on March 13, 2011
“The Good Earth” – Sermon on July 10, 2011
“The Moment Everything Changes” Sermon on April 24, 2011
“The Power of a Question” – sermon on August 31, 2014
“The Problem of the Peaceable Kingdom” – Dec 5, 2010
“The Redeemer” – Sermon on Nov 10, 2013
“The Things That Make for Peace” – March 24, 2013 Sermon
“Tradition, Law and Love” – April 28, 2013 Sermon
“Treasure” – Sermon on Aug 4, 2013
“True Light” – Sermon on Jan 5, 2014
“Under Authority, With Authority” – Sermon on June 2, 2013
“Upon the Sea” – Sermon on Aug 7, 2011
“Visits with Jesus” – Jan 1, 2012 Sermon/Story
“What Do We Know?” – June 17, 2012 Sermon
“What Is Right” Sermon on Sept 18, 2011
“What Our Hearts Are Made For” – Sermon on Nov. 25, 2012
“What We Say and What We Do” – Sermon on Sept 16, 2012
“What will you do with your gifts” – Nov 13, 2011 Sermon
“What’s the Point” – Sermon notes from Sept 29, 2013
“Where Two or Three are Gathered” – Sermon on May 26, 2013
“Who Is That?” – Sermon on Jan 19, 2014
“Wonderful Words of Life” – Sermon on Oct 2, 2011
“All I Really Want” – sermon on July 27, 2014
“Belonging” – sermon on October 19, 2014
“Bring Them Here to Me” – Sermon for May 4, 2014
“But I Say to You” – sermon on February 16, 2014
“Confessing in Confidence” – sermon on March 16, 2014
“Cries from the Depths” – a sermon for March 2, 2014
“Fruit of the Vine” – sermon on October 5, 2014
“Hope” – Sermon for May 18, 2014
“In God We Trust” – Sermon on June 29, 2014
“Intervention” – Sermon on September 7, 2014
“It’s All Good” – sermon on September 21, 2014
“Love’s Disciples” – Sermon on June 15, 2014
“Messed Up” – sermon for August 10, 2014
“Radical Hospitality” – sermon on September 14, 2014
“Special Delivery” – Sermon on Easter Sunday 2014 (April 20)
“Standing on Uncertain Ground” – sermon for July 20, 2014
“The Father, Son and Holy Spirit” – Sermon for June 8, 2014
“The Plans God Has For You” – Sermon on March 23, 2014
“Walking Through It” – Sermon for May 11, 2014
“Wholly Holy” – sermon on February 23, 2014
A Change is in the Air
A Little Goes a Long Way – Sermon Oct 3, 2010
A Most Excellent Way – sermon on May 1, 2016
A New Commandment, A New Earth – May 2, 2010
A Place of Honor
Abba Knows Best – sermon on October 18, 2015
Across the Chasm – Sermon on Sept 26, 2010
Acts of Love – Sermon Aug 8, 2010
Alive and Feeling – sermon on April 2, 2017
And They Believed in Him – Sermon Jan 17, 2010
Asking for a Miracle – sermon on April 10, 2016
Authority to Heal – sermon on February 1, 2015
Baa – April 25, 2010 Sermon
Be Opened! – sermon on September 6, 2015
Building Resistance – sermon on Feb. 14, 2016
But wait… there’s more! – sermon on December 7, 2014
Can I Get a Witness? – sermon on April 12, 2015
Chosen and Choosing – sermon on May 10, 2015
Christmas Eve Worship 2020
Coming Around Again
Denial & Acceptance
Disagreement without Division – sermon on April 24, 2016
Divine Concerns – sermon on March 1, 2015
Divine Judgement – Sermon Jan 10,2010
Divinely Human
Divvied Up -Sermon on May 16, 2010
Dying and Living in Jesus – sermon on November 8, 2015
Each Moment a Decision – sermon on January 25, 2015
Each Moment a Decision – sermon on January 25, 2015
Enough! – sermon on August 20, 2017
Expecting the Unexpected – sermon on November 27, 2016
Eyes Wide Open – sermon on March 26, 2017
Faith and Wealth – sermon on September 18, 2016
Faithful Doubter – April 11, 2010
Faithful with Little, Faithful with Much – Sermon on Sept 19, 2010
Finding Glory: Upward, Inward, Outward – sermon on Feb. 21, 2016
Finding Sustenance in Times of Trouble – sermon on August 6, 2017
Follow the Light – sermon on January 10, 2016
Follow Your Bliss – sermon on January 22, 2016
Follow, and Follow Through – sermon on June 26, 2016
Foolishly Arrogant – sermon on August 28, 2016
For and Against – sermon on September 27, 2015
For God – sermon on November 15, 2015
For God’s Sake – sermon on July 2, 2017
For Those With Eyes to See – sermon on April 30, 2017
For What Purpose? – sermon on June 18, 2017
From the Beginning… – sermon on January 3, 2016
From Where Will My Help Come? – Sermon May 9, 2010
Full of Grace – sermon on December 13, 2015
God is Still Speaking – Jan 3, 2010
God Knows – sermon on January 18, 2015
God Rushes In Where Angels Fear to Tread – sermon on June 19, 2016
God Saw That It Was Good – sermon on June 11, 2017
God’s Stewardship – sermon on June 7, 2015
Going Ahead – sermon on March 20, 2016
Going Deep – sermon on Feb. 7, 2016
Grafted – sermon on December 4, 2016
Guilty – sermon on March 6, 2016
Happy Birthday, Dear Church, Happy Birthday to You – sermon on May 15, 2016
Having Seen Salvation – sermon on Dec. 28, 2014
Hear the Good News and …. Resent? – sermon on July 5, 2015
Here Comes the Judge – sermon on October 30, 2016
Hide it Under a Bushel? No! – sermon on February 5, 2017
Hold On Loosely – sermon on June 25, 2017
Holy Mystery – sermon on December 21, 2014
Holy Perfection – sermon on February 19, 2017
Hope: The Thing With Feathers – sermon on Feb. 28, 2016
Hospitality: Preparation and Presence
How Do I Love Thee? – sermon on November 1, 2015
How Neighborly – Sermon July 4, 2010
I Have Seen the Lord – Easter Sermon April 4, 2010
Idle Tales – sermon on Easter Sunday, 4/21/19
In the Garden – sermon on April 16, 2017 Easter Sunday
In the Spirit of Truth – sermon on June 9, 2019
Into Eternal Life – sermon on May 8, 2016
It’s All About Me – sermon on September 17, 2017
Jerusalem, We Have a Problem – sermon on November 6, 2016
Jesus the Messiah – sermon on August 27, 2017
Joyful Anticipation – sermon on December 14, 2014
Just Do It – sermon on September 20, 2015
Justified, or Self-Justified? – sermon on October 23, 2016
Keeping Sabbath Holy – sermon on June 14, 2015
Know It and Show It – sermon on August 30, 2015
Knowing Our Need – sermon on February 26, 2017
Learning to Love the Light – sermon on March 15, 2015
Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ – sermon on Nov. 16, 2014
Live at the Improv – sermon on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016
Living in the Mystery – Sermon Oct 24, 2010
Looking for the Good News – sermon on October 15, 2017
Looking Up – sermon on May 17, 2015
Love and Money – sermon on May 7, 2017
Making Choices – sermon on July 17, 2016
Making It Real – sermon on July 9, 2017
Matches Made in Heaven (?) – Sermon Nov 7, 2010
Means and Ends – sermon on May 28, 2017
Mindful Service – Sermon on June 27, 2010
Moving On Up – Sermon on Aug 29, 2010
Not All About You – sermon on Jan. 31, 2016
Not Hidden From You – sermon on January 14, 2017
Not What It Seems – sermon on November 29, 2015
Notes from Dialogue Sermon on June 16, 2013
O Say Can You See? – sermon on November 13, 2016
Outsider In – sermon on April 9, 2107
Pain and Gain-Sermon on May 30, 2010
Pass the Word – sermon on April 5, 2015 – Easter Sunday
Paying Attention – sermon on September 25, 2016
Possessed
Possessed – Sermon on June 20, 2010
Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving – Sermon Oct 10, 2010
Provoked by Jesus – Jan 31, 2010 Sermon
Ready or Not: The Choice is Ours” – sermon on November 9, 2014
Ready to Receive – sermon on August 7, 2016
Ready, Set, Go – sermon on February 22, 2015
Receiving What’s Provided – sermon on July 3, 2016
Resurrection… or Resuscitation? – sermon on June 5, 2016
Riding Into Town – Sermon on March 26, 2010
Seed Scattered and Sown – sermon on July 16, 2017
Seeds of Love – sermon on March 22, 2015
Sent Out to Tell – sermon on April 3, 2016
Sermon Notes – Sept 8,2013
Sermon: The New Testament and Beyond, Part 2 – sermon on August 16, 2015
Set Free for Sabbath Sermon – Aug 22, 2010
She Gets It! Do You? – sermon on June 12, 2016
Signs of Growth and Health – sermon on August 2, 2015
Sought and Found – Sermon on Sept 12, 2010
Spirit – sermon on June 4, 2017
Stirring Up the Water – sermon on March 19, 2017
Stranger in the Night – Sermon Oct 17, 2010
Such Potential – sermon on October 29, 2017
Suffering for Christ – sermon on April 17, 2016
Sustenance – Sermon on June 6, 2010
Taking Stock – sermon on September 4, 2016
Telling Dreams – sermon on December 18, 2016
Tempted Much? Sermon on Feb 21, 2009
Tenacious Faith – sermon on October 16, 2016
Tests and Testimony – sermon on October 4, 2015
The Big Catch – Feb 7, 2010 Sermon
The Dawning Light of Love – Feb 14, 2010 Sermon
The Good Life – sermon on April 19, 2015
The Kingdom of Heaven is Like… – sermon on July 30, 2017
The Limitations of Jesus – sermon on July 8, 2018
The Messenger, The Message – sermon on December 6, 2015
The New Testament and Beyond, Part 1 – sermon on August 9, 2015
The New Testament and Beyond, Part 3 – sermon on August 23, 2015
The Place of Abundance – sermon on August 3, 2014
The Plumb Line – sermon on July 12, 2015
The Power of One – sermon on October 9, 2016
The Power of True Hospitality – sermon on May 29, 2016
The Wind Beneath Our Wings – sermon on May 31, 2015
The Word Beyond Words – sermon on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018
The Word Beyond Words – sermon on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018
The Word More Precious Than Gold – sermon on Jan 24, 2016
To Give and To Take
To Know You is to Love You
To Pray as Jesus Taught Sermon Feb 28, 2010
Too Easy? – Sermon July 4, 2010
We Are Perishing – sermon on June 21, 2015
What is Most Important? – sermon on October 26, 2014
What? So What? Now What? – sermon on January 7, 2018
What’s Next – Sermon Oct 31, 2010
When Did We….? – sermon on November 23, 2014
When Love Abides – sermon on May 3, 2015
Where Human Effort Fails – sermon on January 29, 2017
Where the Holy Resides – sermon on March 8, 2015
Who Will Be Your Neighbor? – sermon on July 10, 2016
Who? – sermon on June 28, 2015
Who’s Tempting Who? – sermon on March 5, 2017
Widening the Welcome, Shining the Light – sermon on January 8, 2017
Words Fail – sermon on November 22, 2015
Worth the Worry Sermon on March 7, 2010
You Decide – sermon on December 11, 2016
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