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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Jesus Teaches about Inner Purity 7 One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. 3 (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not e…
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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time This week’s passage: Ephesians 6:10-20 The Whole Armor of God 10 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. 12 For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and au…
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19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Ephesians 4:21-5:2 NLT 21 Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, 22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, cr…
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18th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Ephesians 4:1-16 NLT Unity in the Body 4 Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. 2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. 3 Make every eff…
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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT Paul’s Prayer for Spiritual Growth 14 When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then C…
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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Ephesians 2:11-22 NLT Oneness and Peace in Christ 11 Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. 12 In those days you were living apart from…
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14th Sunday of Ordinary Time Note: This recording includes both the children’s message and sermon, as this Sunday was a family worship service. Sermon Passage: Matthew 13:45-46 NLT The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price 45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. 46 When he discovered a pearl of great valu…
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13th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 5:21-43 Jesus Heals in Response to Faith 21 Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. 22 Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, 23 pleading fe…
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12th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 NLT 6 As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it. 2 For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation. Paul’s Hardships 3…
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12th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 4:26-34 NLT Parable of the Growing Seed 26 Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens. 28 The earth produces the crops on its own. First a l…
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10th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 3:20-25 NLT Jesus and the Prince of Demons 20 One time Jesus entered a house, and the crowds began to gather again. Soon he and his disciples couldn’t even find time to eat. 21 When his family heard what was happening, they tried to take him away. “He’s out of his mind,” they said. 22 But the teache…
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9th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 NLT 5 You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God th…
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Trinity Sunday | 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: romans 8:1-2; 12-17 NLT Life in the Spirit 8 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 12 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you hav…
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Pentecost Sunday Sermon Passage: Acts 2:1-21 NLT The Holy Spirit Comes 2 On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. 2 Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. 3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and sett…
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7th Sunday of Easter | Happy Mother’s Day! Sermon Passage: John 17:6-19 NLT 6 “I have revealed you to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you, 8 for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and…
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4th Sunday of Easter | Our Good Shepherd SERMON PASSAGE: John 10:11-18 NLT 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. 12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. …
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3rd Sunday of Easter SERMON PASSAGE: 1 John 3:1-7 3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be l…
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2nd Sunday of Easter SERMON PASSAGE: John 20:19-31 NLT Jesus Appears to His Disciples 19 That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said. 20 As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. …
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Easter Sunday 2024 SERMON PASSAGE: John 20:1-18 NLT The Resurrection 20 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of…
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5th Sunday of Lent Sermon Passage: John 12:20-33 ESV Some Greeks Seek Jesus 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered t…
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4th Sunday of Lent Sermon Passage – John 3:14-21 NLT 14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. 16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish …
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3rd Sunday of Lent Sermon Passage: John 2:13-22 Jesus Clears the Temple 13 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. 15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased…
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2nd Sunday of Lent This week’s passage: Mark 8:31-38 NLT 31 Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. 32 As he talked about this openly with his discipl…
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1st Sunday in Lent Please note: As this was a family worship service, this recording includes the children’s lesson about Jesus and the Children from Matthew 19:13-15, Mark 10:13-16, and Luke 18:15-17. Our curriculum, Godly Play, leaves generous space for wondering and comtemplation. You will hear silence in this week’s recording during the childre…
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Ash Wednesday Sermon Passage: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 Locusts Invade like an Army 2 Sound the trumpet in Jerusalem! Raise the alarm on my holy mountain! Let everyone tremble in fear because the day of the Lord is upon us. 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds and deep blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a g…
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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 9:2-9 The Transfiguration 2 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain to be alone. As the men watched, Jesus’ appearance was transformed, 3 and his clothes became dazzling white, far whiter than any earthly bleach could ever make them. 4 Then Elijah and Moses a…
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 1:29-39 NLT 29 After Jesus left the synagogue with James and John, they went to Simon and Andrew’s home. 30 Now Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. They told Jesus about her right away. 31 So he went to her bedside, took her by the hand, and helped her sit up. Then the fever left…
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sermon Passage: Mark 1:21-28 21 Jesus and his companions went to the town of Capernaum. When the Sabbath day came, he went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority—quite unlike the teachers of religious law. 23 Suddenly, a man in the synagogue who…
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1st Sunday after epiphany Note: Due to the snowy weather, we met over Zoom for this service This week’s passage: Mark 1:4-11 NLT 4 This messenger was John the Baptist. He was in the wilderness and preached that people should be baptized to show that they had repented of their sins and turned to God to be forgiven. 5 All of Judea, including all the …
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1st Sunday after Christmas This week’s passage: Luke 2:22-40 NLT 22 Then it was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child; so his parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. 23 The law of the Lord says, “If a woman’s first child is a boy, he must be dedicated to the Lord.”24 So th…
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3rd Sunday of Advent This week’s passage: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 NLT Good News for the Oppressed 61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. 2 He has sent me to tell th…
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2nd Sunday in Advent This week’s passages: Mark 1:1-8 NLT John the Baptist Prepares the Way 1 This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. It began 2 just as the prophet Isaiah had written: “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way. 3 He is a voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for …
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1st Sunday of Advent This week’s passages: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 NLT 3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. Paul Gives Thanks to God 4 I always thank my God for you and for the gracious gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus. 5 Through him, God has enriched your church in every way—with all of yo…
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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time This week’s passages: Matthew 25:1-13 NLT Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids 25 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 The five who were foolish didn’t take enough olive oil for their lamps, 4 but the o…
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time This week’s passage: Matthew 23:1-12 NLT Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders 23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For t…
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time This week’s passage: Matthew 22:34-46 NLT The Most Important Commandment 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again. 35 One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the most important c…
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This week’s passage: Matthew 22:15-22 NLT Taxes for Caesar 15 Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested. 16 They sent some of their disciples, along with the supporters of Herod, to meet with him. “Teacher,” they said, “we know how honest you are. You teach the way of God truthful…
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This week’s passage: Philippians 4:1-9 NIV Closing Appeal for Steadfastness and Unity 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! 2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, hel…
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THIS WEEK’S PASSAGES: MATTHEW 21:33–46 33 “Now listen to another story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country. 34 At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collec…
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time *note: This recording includes a special family worship service. There is no formal sermon, rather a time of musical worship, extended time of prayer, a children’s message on how the church tells time (the liturgical calendar!), and more musical worship.* This week’s passage: Philippians 2:1-13 NLT Is there any encourag…
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This week’s passages: Matthew 20:1-16 Parable of the Vineyard Workers 20 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work. 3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people st…
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This week’s passages: Matthew 18:21–35 NLT 21 Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” 22 “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven! 23 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who …
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This week’s passages: Matthew 18:15–20, NLT 15 “If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back. 16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witn…
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This week’s passages: Romans 12:1-8 A Living Sacrifice to God 12 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but l…
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This week’s passages: Romans 11:1-2a; 29-32 NLT 11 I ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning. 29 For God’s gifts and his call can never be …
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This week’s passages: Matthew 14:22-33 22 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people home. 23 After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone. 24 Meanwhile, the disciples were in trouble …
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This week’s passages: Romans 9:1-5 9 With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it. 2 My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief 3 for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them. 4 They are th…
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This Week’s Passages: GOSPEL READING: Matthew 13:33-34, 44–52 Parable of the Mustard Seed: 31 Here is another illustration Jesus used: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed planted in a field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but it becomes the largest of garden plants; it grows into a tree, and birds come and make nests in its branches.…
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This week’s passage: Romans 8:12-25 12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of G…
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This week’s passage: Matthew 13: 1-9; 18-23 The Parable of the Sower 13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As h…
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