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Mix It Up with the World

Sermon 2-9-2020 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Texts: Matthew 5:13-20; Isaiah 58:1-12 Pastor Jean M. Hansen  

Turning Points

Today is Groundhog Day, and this morning Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, which is bad news for Pastor Jean, who loves winter, and, I suspect, good news for many of the rest...

We Scatter the Shadows

Some of you may be confused…not just in general … but by today’s Gospel reading, especially if you were here last Sunday when we read in John’s Gospel how Andrew was called by Jesus to...

Letting God Be God, for Us

I will let you in on a preacher’s secret. When you’ve gone through the three-year cycle of assigned readings a few times, especially when it has been 10 or 11 times, as has been the...

Don’t Know? Come and See!

You probably have to be of a “certain age” to know the song I’m about to quote. It was the “class song” when I graduated from high school, which I’ve always thought was somewhat silly...

Our Identity: God's Beloved Ones

Did you notice the baptism maps on the bulletin board next to the church nursery, across from the Meeting Room? Quite a few of you have added a pin to the maps (one for the world, and...

Love Came Down at Christmas, part 3

Today we celebrate the Epiphany of Our Lord, a festival of the church that actually is tomorrow, January 6. Epiphany means “the manifestation of God,”; so today we celebrate the...

Love Came Down at Christmas, Part 2

At least three things are odd about today’s readings. First, they are out of order; that which is described in the Gospel reading takes place after the arrival of the Magi, which will...