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Sermon: God Gone Wild

"God Gone Wild" (Feb 14, 2010 - Transfiguration) We've become very good at keeping God in check, acting like the church has the corner on God and shielding ourselves and the rest of the world from the 'God contagion.' Because God is actually quite startling, quite life-changing, and is likely to run amok all over…

Sermon: Go Deep

"Go Deep" (Feb 7, 2010) When Jesus encounters Simon Peter and his fishing companions, he instructs them to cast out into deeper water to throw their nets. Going deeper suggests the need to take a risk, the need to go deep out into the mission field where the 'fish' actually are. Nothing is gained by…

Sermon: Love Writ Large

"Love Writ Large" (Jan 31, 2010) Love-- which is really just a synonym for God-- is all around us, and it is this presence that sustains us. Just a little bit of Valentine's Day lovey-dovey a couple weeks early. (1 Corinthians 13) Toward the beginning of this sermon, I played a clip from the opening…

When doing the right thing is wrong

Perhaps you may have read this week about the group of American Baptist volunteers arrested in Haiti for trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country (a longer article here). I confess that I'm of several minds about this, and don't really know what to say. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Mine…