Tag: love
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What is Love?
New Day Sermon Advent 4 We talk about love all the time. We love food. We love fun. We love each other. But what is love, and how do we experience love in the incarnation?
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Special Delivery
Today we hear how the Almighty One does great things for the lowly, those who fear and are hungry, those who need assistance and all who hold onto a promise from God. We lit a final candle and assembled a humble manger in preparation for the Christ child, the baby Jesus, Mary’s son, our Lord.…
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Memes, Mistakes, and Martin Luther
New Day Sermon Reformation Sunday Memes are a good way of telling stories…so here’s a few to tell the story of sin, salvation, and God’s hope for you.
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A Father’s Love
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. (George Webster Douglas) I write to you both as a son and a father and a grandfather who has been on both the receiving end and the giving…
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Serving Through Agape Love
New Day Sermon Easter 6 Serving is an integral part of agape love which is one way to fulfill Jesus’ commandment to love one another.
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A Tale of Two Hugs
Email Devotion For The Week Following Easter Rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight. (1 Peter 3:4) God works in mysterious ways indeed. Last week it was two hugs that I observed given and received by…
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The Cross on Good Friday
What is there to say this evening? This evening that we remember Jesus crucified. This evening where we look upon the cross. The cross, an instrument, by which empires tortured and shamed masses into silence. The cross, a symbol when abused, that can still carry a message of shame and force. The cross, a sign…
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Love Stories
New Day Sermon lent 4 We talk about God’s love for the world, but how does God love the world? In what way can we even begin to describe this love? Maybe we start with some love stories…
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Saints and Death … A Conversation
Traditional Sermon All Saints Sunday You have been here before. Saints … tears … the first Sunday in November … a litany naming those we have lost … the Beatitudes serving as our Gospel Lesson … All Saints Sunday. It is a day when we remember … formally through the…
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A Mother’s Love
Traditional Sermon Pentecost 11 The other night my husband and I were sitting around and Erik was reading some quotes about parenthood. Several of them came from the actor Ryan Reynolds who has a thing or two to say about this crazy thing called parenting. Some of his more famous quotes include: And this one:…
