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Sermon for Trinity Sunday 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

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“The doctrine of the Trinity that is this convoluted, Hellenistic, philosophical thing where they fight about five words that all mean the same thing…it has something larger behind it than that, something more important than that. It is the church in the 3rd and the 4th centuries’ attempt [...]

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Sermon for Pentecost Day 2007

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

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“This business of tongues–’languages’, literally–is about how a universal language comes into the midst of human history and experience. It is the good news of Jesus Christ, which is a language that will allow everyone everywhere to be united as if they spoke one language.
“Then there’s the wind [...]

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Sermon for May 20 on the Web

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

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“The more you do the mission of Christ in the world the better your prayer life will get. It’ll become simpler, too: ‘Help!’”

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Sermon for April 29 on the Web

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

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Contains the now-famous “give me the damn Jesus fish” story.
“This whole thing about the Good Shepherd, I think, needs some explanation. We tend to think of it as Jesus being kind to us, and being nurturing to us. And that’s really not totally what it’s about.
“Part of [...]

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Sermon for Easter Sunday 2007 on the Web

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

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Luke 24 1:12
“Do you want to live in a reality where death is not the end, but is a portal to life? do you want to live in a reality where evil does not have all the cards, God does? Do you want to live in a reality [...]

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Easter Vigil sermon on the Web

Monday, May 7th, 2007

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“In the midst of the dead of night, Jesus was raised from the dead.
“We can remember the first Sunday after Christmas day, where John’s gospel is read; and it says, ‘And what came into being through him was life, and that life was the light of all people, and the light shone [...]

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Sermon: Holy Week and Shamanism

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Sunday March 24 2007
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“Christianity, especially Catholic Christianity, is kind of a weird phenomenon. It’s not far removed from shaman kind of stuff. …If you’re a Navajo and get sick, really sick, what they do is take you into the hogan and plunk you down on the floor, and the medicine man does [...]

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Sermon: The Prodigal Son

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Sunday March 18, 2007
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“I have always said that if I had one story of Jesus’s to explain to people what Christianity and the Paschal mystery is all about, it would be this story: the Prodigal Son. Scrape away all of the other stuff about judgment, and right behavior, and who’s gonna be [...]

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Sermon for 2/25/07 available on the Web

Monday, March 26th, 2007

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Fr. John Fergueson preaches on the journey of Lent. He describes some of the artwork hung in the church for the season - a sackcloth banner on the wall, torn in places to reveal royal purple beneath, and a gnarled tree placed by the altar.
Angela, the artist who designed the Lenten artwork, [...]

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Sermon for Feb. 18, 2007 now on the Web

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Fr. John preaches on the real meaning of the passage from Corinthians that you always hear at weddings.
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