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Sermons
“When Half Spent Was the Night”
1st Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 11:1-3a
(Organ interludes from “Variations on Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” – Murry C. Bradshaw)
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“Old Ways and New Paths”
19th Sunday after Pentecost
Exodus 3:7-8; Matthew 13:52
Rev. Dr. Roy Medley, guest preacher
General Secretary, ABC-USA
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“The Witness of a People and a Place”
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Rededication of our Sanctuary
Revs. Paul & Stacey Simpson Duke
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“The Liberating Law”
16th Sunday after Pentecost
World Communion Sunday
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
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Ask any of your friends, “How are you?” and many of them are likely to answer with variations on the same answer, “I am so busy.” There is sadness and exhaustion in those words, but there is a little bit of pride in them too. If we are busy, then maybe we are also valuable and significant. Maybe we are indispensable. Maybe we matter.
Some of us are not as busy anymore as we once were. Loss of job, loss of health, loss of mobility – all of these can force us to stop with the busyness. For many, this can raise questions of identity and worth. Who are we if we are not busy? Do we still matter if we are not producing the way we used to? (more…)