3 August 2025

Maintenance

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Things seem to fall apart and get broken rather easily—from our aging bodies, to the buildings we live in, to the equipment we rely on each day, to our lives in general and the world at large. Just think of your current to-do list of things that you need to fix, replace, clean, or sort out. What are we meant to do in the midst of this reality? Give up on fixing anything? Let’s talk on Sunday about the importance of maintenance and how to find the humility, courage, and trust to do the work to maintain what matters.

Previous Sermons

12 April 2026

Making Truth False

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5 April 2026

Failure is an Option

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29 March 2026

Celebrate the Lord!

In the Gospel of John, Palm Sunday is described in the context of the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead.

22 March 2026

Anointed With Love

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15 March 2026

Is Life Getting Better?

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8 March 2026

Spiritual Healing

Many of Jesus's miracles consisted in healing the sick. But in the grand scheme of things He was only able to heal a tiny fraction of the people who have suffered, constrained to a relatively small geographic area of the world. So why did Jesus spend so much time healing people?

1 March 2026

Misguided Humility

Jesus teaches that the first will be last, and the last first. He also teaches that he who would be great must become a servant. To be meek and mild therefore seems like the goal we should all aspire to