West End UMC
By West End UMC
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Messages presented by Senior Pastor Michael Williams and other speakers during worship at West End UMC in Nashville, Tennessee.
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I Am Sending You | We are a people who are sent by Jesus to abide in his love and bear fruit in his name as the spirit of God works through us. Is that our “a-sent-sion”? | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abide in My Love | Jesus tells his followers not just to love but to abide (live fully and constantly) in his love. Imagine what a different place the world would be if all the followers lived fully and constantly in Jesus’ love and reflected that love for others. | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bear Much Fruit | Jesus doesn't tell his disciples to add church members or increase giving, but to "bear much fruit." This is the way, he says, that we become his disciples. What would it look like for us to bear much fruit today? | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laying It Down and Picking It Up | The Good Shepherd lays down his life for others in order to pick it up again. Is it possible that those who follow the Good Shepherd are expected to follow his example? | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Many Other Signs | John indicates that he has left a lot of what Jesus did out of his version of the story. Is he giving a nod to other gospel writers or suggesting that we should continue to look for signs of Jesus' presence or both? | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To Remember What Really Happened | The earliest texts of the Gospel of Mark don’t conclude with resurrection appearances. We are left facing an empty tomb and the mystery that Jesus might appear in any place, at any time, as anyone. | 4/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Remembrance of Her | At the last supper with his disciples, as Jesus breaks the bread and passes the cup he tells them to continue that practice "in remembrance of me." Earlier when a woman anoints jesus he says that wherever the good news is proclaimed this story will be told "in remembrance of her." | 3/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What It's All About | Love of God and loving your neighbor as yourself is what the whole life of faith boils down to according to Jesus. Apparently he summed it up so well that none of his questioners had any other questions. Why don't we, as Jesus followers, give it a try? | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surely They Will Listen | Jesus’ theory of atonement (if you can call it that) seems to say that God intended for people to listen to Jesus, not kill him. That differs greatly from the way many Christians today interpret God’s purpose in sending Jesus. | 3/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 3/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jesus’ Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Jesus is having a bad day. First, he curses a fruitless fig tree then drives all the animals out of the Temple. Then he turns the tables over the people who are selling the animals. Haven’t we all had days like that? | 3/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Jesus Nobody Wanted | Peter rebukes Jesus, then Jesus rebukes Peter (even calling him Satan). Do we still resist a Messiah who suffers and wish he hadn’t said that thing about taking up our cross. | 3/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wild Beasts and Angels | The Spirit of God drives Jesus into the wilderness to live among the wild beasts and be waited on by angels. Mark doesn’t specify the temptations Satan offers Jesus. Does he just assume they are the same as ours? | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just So Proud to Be Here | Peter wants to stay on the mountaintop. We, too, are tempted to live for those mountaintop experiences that come along once in a while. Instead of living for the sensational experiences perhaps we are just supposed to listen to Jesus. | 2/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 2/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping Jesus' Secret | The man Jesus heals in this story cannot keep his mouth shut. He talks up what this itinerate preacher/teacher/healer has done for him that Jesus practically has to go into hiding. Keeping Jesus' secret doesn't seem to be a problem for most of us today. | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What I Came to Do | Jesus seems to be hindered in doing what God has called him to do for all the people who want something else from him. Do we sometimes want something other than Jesus had to give? | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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And Now for Something Completely Different | The reign of God has begun. Those who fished for fish will hereafter fish for people. The way they earned a living prepared them for life in the reign of God. | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Whom There Is No Deceit | Nathaniel is the first person in the gospels to insult Jesus. Then Jesus praises him for it. Are the followers of Jesus known for being those "in whom there is no deceit" today? | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Heavens Torn Open | In Mark's gospel, at Jesus' baptism the clouds don't just part. Instead, the heavens are torn open. Somthing has changed—drastically. Also, the voice of God appears to be heard by Jesus alone. What's up with that? | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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By Another Road | Those who encounter Jesus always leave the experience "by another road" as changed people. How is that change going to live out in us as individuals and as a congregation in the coming year? | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rising and The Falling | Simeon says in his song that the child he holds in his arms, the child he has waited for so long, Jesus is "destined for the rising and falling of many". New Years Day is a time when we think about the times we have fallen and our regrets, as well as our hopes of rising above the past with God's help. This worship service will offer a chance to let go of our regrets and go forth with our hopes | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Time for All God's Children | There are a number of legends about animals who were present at the birth of Jesus. This is a story I wrote the Advent just before our older daughter, Sarah, was born about a cat that was present for that wondrous event, and who brings a different perspective to Jesus' birth | 12/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greetings Favored One | She is young and pregnant and isn't married yet. If this is the sign of God's favor, most of us would rather not be God's favored one. But young Mary rises to the occasion. “Let it be with me according to your word," she says. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Man Sent from God | When John the Baptist is questioned about his calling and his authority he deflect the questions, first to Isaiah, then to the one who is to come. Clearly, though he is sent from God, John has kept his role in the proper perspective. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Spirit of the Lord | Jesus quotes this passage in his sermon at his home congregation in Nazareth. In doing so he seems to be describing his own calling. He winds up (in the words of the cliché) comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Comfort My People | God speaks a word of comfort to a people who seem to be at the point of despair. The question is: Will we live out of our faith in God or be confined by the circumstances around us? | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Come! Surrender! Be Transformed! | -- | 11/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 11/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Reluctant Prophet | Jonah is reluctant to do what God tells him to do. After all, Nineveh is the capital of an enemy country, the people are of another religion. Why does God care and why should he waste his time? | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Requirements for the Course | -- | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Woman of Substance | Throughout Proverbs wisdom is embodied in female figures. This one at first seems to be superwoman, but what if she is just a wonderful example of a good steward for women and men alike? | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 10/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World Enough and Time | -- | 10/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children or Millstones, You Decide | -- | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Have You Considered My Servant, Job? | One of the most troubling questions for religious and non-religious people is, " Why do good people suffer?" The book of Job combines two different approaches to this question and comes up with some provocative responses, though they don't seem to be answers. | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Those Kind of People | When we include and look out for outsiders, we create the healthy community that God has in mind all along, making a way out of the no way. | 10/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spies in the Land | Spies are sent into the land of promise to see what kind of resistance Israel might meet when they entered. In the process the spies receive help and protection from a most unlikely source. | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Book of Romans | Dr. Watson discusses the book of Romans | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Golden Calves | No sooner had Moses gone to the mountain to talk with God than the people wanted an idol to worship. What are our American idols, that out of fear we create to worship in place of the living God? | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Daily Bread | When Jesus refers to our daily bread in the prayer he teaches his disciples, he is likely making reference to this story. Though the people are constantly complaining, God provides all that they need for their journey. On the tenth anniversary of a tragic day it might be good to remember that God provides all that we need as well. | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaving Egypt | Most of us think of Cecil B. DeMille's version of the crossing of the Red Sea when we imagine this story. Except it was the Sea of Reeds and wasn't nearly as dramatic as Hollywood would have us think. Except for those crossing into freedom, of course. For them it must have been way larger than life. | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Burning Bush | Is there any place in your life that you would consider holy ground? Do remember what happened there that makes you regard it as such? Well, Moses had a life-changing conversation with a voice that came from a bush, and it led him not only to consider the place holy ground but to leave a comfortable life as a shepherd and embark upon a world-changing journey. | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Midwives Tale | Sometime what on the surface seems to be an untruth is really a way of telling the deepest truth. The midwives who refuse to kill on Pharaoh’s command learn to tell that kind of truth. | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph the Man | Maturity is a remarkable thing, especially when it happens to someone with Joseph’s track record. Can this Egyptian Official be the same brat that his brothers tried to get rid of? | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph the Boy | First, he never does any of the hard work. Then he starts having dreams in which he is the hero and his brothers are…well. Nothing! If Joseph had been my brother, I would have thrown him in a hole too. | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Look at Those Teeth!" | For his faithfulness to his God Daniel is rewarded with a trip to the zoo, only to find out that he will be supper for the lions. Will he escape the gaping mouths and dagger-like teeth of the lions? | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jacob the Trickster | If you think that the Patriarchs were fine upstanding people, forget it! Jacob is a shyster from the word go. Yet he was one of those chosen by God to receive the promise. Don’t you wish that God had better taste sometimes? | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honoring Those God Sends Us | -- | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 7/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Call and the Promise | Abram and Sarai were living a quiet life when God called them to leave everyone and everything they knew to go to a land that God would show them. Does that sound like a winning proposition to you? | 7/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Take it Easy | In times of trial and hardship we can miss the grace of God that is right in front of us. | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Unfinished Project | Have you ever started a project that went so far astray it was better to just start all over again? Well, the same thing happened with God’s first attempts at creation. So, God gives the universe and people another chance. That seems to be the very thing God specializes in. | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Beginning | The narratives (yes there are two) of creations tell us more about the who and why of creation than the how and the what. Set alongside the scientific account of creation we get a more complete glimpse of the greatness of God. | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Will Pour Out My Spirit Upon All Flesh | Sometimes we as Christians act as if we have a corner on God’s spirit. Pentecost is both a Jewish holy day celebrating the first fruits of the harvest and a Christian holy day celebrating the gift of the Holy Spirit coming to Jesus first followers. Still, its impact goes far beyond one or even two religious traditions. God’s spirit breathes through “all flesh”. Now that’s good news. | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It Is Not for You to Know | As Jesus prepares to leave his followers and go to be with God he reminds them that there are certain things they just cannot know. God is so vast that the human mind cannot even being to fathom the dream God has for this world. Still, God gives us the power to participate in the realization of that dream—God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caught Up in Community | -- | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Place of Laughter and Tears | As the exiles return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple there are both laughter and tears in response to this opportunity. West End UMC has been a place where generations have come to celebrate and to mourn, a place baptized with laughter and tears. As we care for this building we continue a great tradition as well as live into God’s dream for us in the future. | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Guess You’re Wondering Why I Called You Here | The only reason we have a building is to provide a place that we can practice the love of God and neighbor to which Jesus called all his followers. It is place where we cultivate “glad and generous hearts” and “goodwill toward all people”. Believe it or not, it even provides the environment where we can learn to “love our enemies”. | 5/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's Not Just A Building | As beautiful as our church building is its importance lies in the fact that it provides the place where each week we gather in anticipation of an encounter with the risen Christ. We are stewards of a building whose beauty invites us into a transforming relationship with God, a purpose that no civic gathering place could come close to matching. | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honest Thomas | In Jesus' conversation with Thomas Jesus responds to Thomas's honest doubt by inviting him to an even more intimate encounter, to touch his wounds. Though the story does not indicate whether Thomas actually did touch Jesus, could it be that God can use even our doubt to draw us into a more intimate relationship with the risen Christ? | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Whom do you seek?" | Matthew 28:1-10 “Whom do you seek?” The women came to the tomb seeking the dead Jesus, only to hear the news that the he isn’t there because he has passed through death and into new life. Whom do we seek this Easter morning? Is it possible that we might come expecting to hear the fossilized remains of some ancient witness, but instead encounter the living Christ who, if we follow him, will change our lives beyond anything we can imagine? | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who Is This? | While his followers must have been excited about Jesus entry into Jerusalem, it most likely left the mass of the population of Jerusalem baffled. Matthew may be exaggerating a bit to say that the “whole city was in turmoil”, but there must have been many people wondering. “Who is this who enters the holy city on a donkey? Will he bring us peace or trouble?” It seems that he was to bring both. | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blessings | -- | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the Desert | -- | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can These Bones Live? | Ezekiel 37:1-14 “Can These Bones Live?”--Venture Ezekiel is led into a valley where a battle has left the ground littered with the skeletons of those who died drying and being bleached by the sun. Can these bones live again? It hardly seems likely. Yet with God many thinks are possible. Can those of us who walk around feeling “all dried up” or “half dead” find new life? Watch and see. | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To Die for the Ungodly | The central paradox of the Christian faith is that Jesus didn’t come for those who think they deserve such a divine visitation. The truth is that none of us could earn or deserve such a gift. Jesus came to reclaim those parts of each of us that might be called ungodly. Though we could never deserve it, we benefit from God’s love for the ungodly. | 3/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children's Moment | -- | 3/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For the Love of God | Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born again, not literally as Nicodemus suggests, but by the spirit of God. It is a chance to begin life again, to be birthed into the mystery of God's love for all the "cosmos." John 3:1-17 | 3/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wilderness of the World | Other than the Lord's Prayer the Twenty-third Psalm is probably the most memorized passage of scripture. It is read frequently at Services of Death and Resurrection as a means of comforting those who mourn. Still, these are words that offer challenge as well as comfort. What is the responsibility of those of us who have been cared for by "the Good Shepherd" toward others as we wander through the wilderness of the world? | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Easy Way | Among the temptations that Satan places before Jesus, each one offers an easy way to power and celebrity. To follow those paths would require that Jesus give up his trust in God, which he steadfastly refuses to do. Are we ever tempted to take the easy path, because we are unwilling to trust God? | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Listening is an Act of Love | -- | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's Not Really About Us | -- | 2/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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God's Temple/God's Spirit | -- | 2/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Small Parts | -- | 2/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A People of Salt and Light | -- | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Upside-down Blessings | -- | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Undivided Light | -- | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Footsteps of the Lamb | -- | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Borrowed Light | -- | 1/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Brightest and Best | -- | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Eyes | -- | 12/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Body, My Blood | -- | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Treasure in Clay Jars | -- | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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So That's What We're Supposed To Be Doing | -- | 12/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Soul Give Glory | -- | 12/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Unwelcome Conversation | -- | 11/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The King Who Speaks from the Cross | -- | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the Worst Happens | -- | 11/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wee Little Man | Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus was probably the most hated man in Jericho. When Jesus visits, though, his life and behavior is literally transformed. Will we be open to the changes that might be required of us is we welcome the transforming presence of Jesus into our lives? | 10/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Much is Too Much? | Luke 18:9-14 There is an old saying related to medicine that If a little will do a little good, then a lot will do a lot of good. We all know, however, that too much of even a good thing can kill us. How do we know how much is enough, and when we cross the line into the territory of “Too much”. | 10/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Covenant of the Heart | Our gratitude is the response to God’s initiating a covenant with us. God’s covenant is not a document but is to be written on our hearts and is to shine forth in our lives. Jeremiah 31:27-34 | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The One Who Returned | Luke 17:11-19 Gratitude lies at the heart of faith Jesus lived and taught. All that we are and all that we have is a gift from God. Will we simply take God’s generosity for granted or will we, like the one leper, show our gratitude? | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guard the Good Treasure | 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Bedrock Beliefs: We believe that prayer connects us with God’s transforming power and presence and that God is with us; we are not alone. | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Spirit--What Truth? | -- | 9/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Waiting for the Rat to Die | Bedrock Belief: We believe in the forgiveness of sins. | 9/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just Tell the Love of Jesus, and Say He Died for All | Luke 15:1-10 Bedrock Beliefs: We believe that God loves everyone unconditionally, and that Jesus is the human face of God. | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Peculiar Community | Philemon 1-21 Bedrock Beliefs: We believe that God calls us to love, and that God calls us into a community of faith. | 9/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 135 Episodes |
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