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Below are sermons available for download.
While sermons are helpful to read, they are meant to be heard within the congregation of those gathered for worship.
Still, it can be useful to study themes and ideas and ponder the proclamation. If sermons are used by you in your own
sermons or speeches, I ask only that you make every effort to cite the source accurately. Most importantly, as
you journey in faith, I invite you to dialogue with me about the texts you are about to read.
Recent sermons:
Confessions of a Patriot II, Memorial Day Sunday 2008
Easter Sermon 2008
Jesus: Poet, Preacher, Healer
These Scars, God's Grace. A sermon on the inclusive nature of our church, contra homophobia.
Three Lies, Two Truths, One Idea
Dear Pope Benedict: A sermon in response to the Vatican's assertion that Protestant churches are not properly churches
When Statues Weep, in response to the massacre at VA Tech
My African Ancestors
How To Put Together A Life: A New Year's Eve Sermon, 2007
Worship As Resistance: Being a response to Secretary Rumsfeld's Accusation of moral confusion
Joanna and the Apostles of Christ (Mother's Day '06)
The Hour Is Late (Palm Sunday 2006)
Alien-Nation (MLK Sunday)
Make Me Wanna Holler: A Sermon About Recent Events From Rosa Parks to Indictment of VP Cheney's Aid
Burning Bush: A Sermon on Intelligent Design
One Less One More
The Words Beneath
FaithCraft
Live Bravely and Free: Baptist Distinctives, Part II
My Journey to Freedom (July 4th)
A Duct Tape, WD-40 Kind of Life
She Who Is (Mother's Day '04)
Come Ashore! (Easter '04)
A FAVORITE SERMON OF MINE
The Road To The Beloved Community
Sermons
from the Advent Series 2007:
My Heart Exults In The Lord: Birth Stories For Advent
The Birth of the Original, sermon 1
My Heart Exults in the Lord, sermon 2
The Stranger, sermon 3
Lord of the Earth, sermon 4
A Christmas Reliquary, Christmas Eve Sermon
Three Sermons After 9/11
A Call To Prayer
And Arise, Arise...
God's Savage Country
An excerpt from the sermon, "A Meditation
On All That Is Good"
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"Planets," by Kirsten Bledsoe, age 10 at the time. |
"A Meditation On All That is Good" Before you awakened this morning from a sleep that refreshed and healed
your body and mind, a billion people had finished tens of billions of kindnesses. A mother soothed her child in India; a grandmother
picked flowers for her grandchild in Australia; a grandfather carved a toy for his grandchild in Africa. Across the
globe, mothers and fathers and children and grandparents and cousins prayed together, played together, exchanged love together
and overnight, another rainbow blanket of love was made for the world. Families everywhere embraced ten thousands of
times and kissed good-byes and hugged helloes. The goodness of a family is a coat of many colors. . .
Download this sermon here.
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