| Story Sermon
Bearers of the Seed Story Lectionary 1 May 2016 Jesus’ Commissioning of His Disciples The Story of Noah’s Mission and the Rebirth of the World (Genesis 9) The Story of Tamar’s Mission to Bear a Child of the Covenant (Genesis 38) The Birth and Saving of Moses (Exodus...
| Master Sermons
Go On Strike! Lectionary 1 May 2016 6th Sunday of Easter Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 67 Revelation 21:1-10, 22-22:5 John 14:23-29 Text to Life Every US election season it is important for Christians in the US to remember that the kingdom of God and the Church Universal are not...
| Preaching Tips
Help people embody your sermon by inviting them to act it out! Use a blindfold to lead them out. Or as our fellow contributor David McDonald did one Sunday to demonstrate Jesus’ burial, wrap them up! You can have them up and moving about the space or participating...
| Sound Theology |
The featured work this week was “lost,” (actually, unknown) for almost 230 years. Austrian composer and violinist Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was born in 1644, and he revolutionized the playing of the violin. His most well-known work was not discovered until 1905!...
| Pastor's Prayer |
O persistent God, Deliver me from assuming your mercy is gentle. Pressure me that I may grow more human, not through the lessening of my struggles, but through an expansion of them. . . . Deepen my hurt until I learn to share it and myself openly, and my needs...
