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The Tenderness of God’s Judgement

Date: September 7, 2025
Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-11, Psalm 139
Preacher: Rev. Eileen Parfrey

Although not a potter of anything remotely utilitarian, I know enough about clay to get Jeremiah’s experience. Clay is a valuable material, and that business of smashing a flawed vessel is not trashing what didn’t work in an act of judgment, which is how we often interpret this story. In fact, what the potter does … read

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New-Kid Feelings

Date: August 17, 2025
Scripture: Luke 18:15-17
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

I am more than 40 years old and I haven’t been in school for several years now, but I am very aware of my anxiety in August. Some of it, I think, is residual from keeping an office at a university for many years after my own schooling. I had a colleague who’d always ask, … read

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God Demands Life

Date: August 3, 2025
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
Preacher: Rev. Junha Kim

The scripture today comes from Luke 12:13-21, and it’s often known as the parable of the rich fool. This is a parable Jesus tells to a crowd of thousands, and often told more than once to more crowds of thousands, and so, reflects what Jesus was not only saying, but doing and living out throughout … read

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Pray This Way

Date: July 27, 2025
Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

I was grateful to find our Gospel text today is the Lord’s Prayer. It’s universal and personally formational prayer. Even though there were only five people there when my wife and I got married, I made us all say it and half said it with debts and half said it with trespasses and at least … read

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Since Before Your Borning Cry

Date: July 20, 2025
Scripture: Genesis 18:1-15
Preacher: Rev. Eileen Parfrey

That laugh of Sarah’s has been bugging me all week. If it’s true that “laughter is carbonated faith,” then why do so many biblical scholars characterize Sarah’s laugh as cynical ingratitude? Those two oldsters (Abraham and Sarah) have waited 24 years for the fulfillment of a promise made six chapters earlier—a promise of place, progeny, … read

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Song of Summber

Date: June 22, 2025
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

As of Friday, even with all the madness happening in the world, it is officially summer. We’re commemorating with jazz music, sending our youth off on their service-learning trip, and eating ice cream before noon, inside. We come to this space to remind ourselves that we are not God, and thus don’t control if this … read

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