Recent Sermons

Friends For Hire

gary — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:19:08 -0400

Friends For Hire

John 15:9-17

The Illuminated Scripture

gary — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:39:29 -0400

The Illuminated Scripture

Acts 8:26-40
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Road Maps

gary — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:24:47 -0400

Road Maps

Acts 4.5-12
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How Many People Can God Love?

gary — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:22:14 -0400

How Many People Can God Love?

1 John 3.1-7
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A Titanic Lie

gary — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:24:00 -0400

A Titanic Lie

1 John 1.1-2.2
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Nothing Is Everything

gary — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:46:27 -0400

Nothing Is Everything

Mark 16.1-8
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WHY? Why God's Love Prevails

gary — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:34:45 -0400

WHY? Why God's Love Prevails

Mark 11.1-11
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WHY? Why Can’t I See God’s Will for My Life?

gary — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:34:32 -0400
WHY?
Why Can’t I See God’s Will for My Life?

Romans 11.33-36, 12.1-2
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
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What Makes For Peace in Israel-Palestine?

gary — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:32:14 -0400

Text is not available for this sermon. Please listen to audio file to hear Rev. Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel, Canon of St. Georges Cathedral, Jerusalem.

Meditation by Rev. Ateek:

"The search for strict justice, with its overtones of retaliation, can all too easily lower people to the level of the inhuman or even the subhuman; while the excercise of mercy and reconciliation can lift them up to the level of the genuinely human and even the devine."

WHY? Why Do My Prayers Go Unanswered?

gary — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:41:22 -0400

WHY?

Why Do My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Luke 22.39-46
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WHY? Why Do the Innocent Suffer?

gary — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:51:08 -0500

WHY?

Why Do the Innocent Suffer?

Genesis 37.1-4, 18-30
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Why WHY?

gary — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:45:02 -0500

Why WHY?

Job 42.1-6
Then Job answered the LORD: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

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Five Wishes

gary — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:26:12 -0500

Five Wishes

Isaiah 40.21-31
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- Scout Day -

gary — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:13:14 -0500

Scouting Ministries Sunday

1 Corinthians 9.24-27

Our Scouting Ministries took center chancel this Sunday with a visit from Boy Scout Troop One - the oldest troop in California!

There is no text available. Please play the audio.

n a k e d – Harmony’s Song

gary — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:21:06 -0500

n a k e d – Harmony’s Song

John 15.1-17
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n a k e d – Power in Perplexity

gary — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:43:18 -0500

n a k e d – Power in Perplexity

Psalm 65.5-12
By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,

O God of our salvation;

you are the hope of all the ends of the earth

and of the farthest seas.

By your strength you established the mountains;

you are girded with might.

You silence the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

the tumult of the peoples.
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n a k e d – Confronting Complexity

gary — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:04 -0500

n a k e d – Confronting Complexity

Mark 2.1-12
After a few days, Jesus returned to Capernaum, and word got around that he was back home. A crowd gathered, jamming the entrance so no one could get in or out. He was teaching the Word. They brought a paraplegic to him, carried by four men. When they weren't able to get in because of the crowd, they removed part of the roof and lowered the paraplegic on his stretcher. Impressed by their bold belief, Jesus said to the paraplegic, "Son, I forgive your sins."
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n a k e d – Simplicity Redux

gary — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:31:05 -0500

n a k e d – Simplicity Redux

1 John 1.5; 4.7-8, 16
We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
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n a k e d - Wine, Wind, Wellsprings

gary — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:05:49 -0500

n a k e d - Wine, Wind, Wellsprings

John 4.7-26
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)
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WHEN We are Threatened

gary — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:48:31 -0500

WHEN We are Threatened

Matthew 2.1-15
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