Take Off Your Shoes Podcast By Marie Duquette

Send us Fan Mail Several things Jesus teaches us using Mary and Martha. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your child graduates and leaves home? Where is Jesus then? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What part do you play where Jesus cures the naked man chained and filled with demons? Are you Legion? Are you the pigs? Or are you the town crowd?   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Paul and Silas use their voices for more than preaching. Listen to this version of a deeper story about their experiences in prison Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we hear Jesus bless his disciples with peace—with the caveat, ”I do not give as the world gives.” How is the peace Jesus gives different than what the world gives? How do we experience the peace of Jesus in a time of conflict, violence, and turmoil?  The peace that Jesus provides may not be the calm we seek, but it is a kind of peace we need the most. Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail On Palm Sunday there were two parades. One celebrating peace; the other provoking violence. Today we consider both and how we best carry on in this tension we live in still today.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today's sermon considers how being physically separated and close affects how we see one another, as well as how we recover what we lost in relationships, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about home: what it means to go home, to leave home, to return home, and how we welcome people home -- even those who bring with them guilt, shame, and regret.  https://youtu.be/xBGBG-LQ1AY Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today's sermon is a meditation on human suffering, and how God works with humanity to continually recreate life in the world.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's Gospel we learn that Lent is about much more than giving something up or taking something on. It isn't about us and something else or someone else at all. Lent is about learning to look in the mirror and owning all that we see magnified back to us.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Jesus' job never ends...more to do after his Transfiguration on the mountain. Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail God always equips the called. God never calls the equipped. Zoom gospel and sermon Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we hear how God's word to the reluctant prophet, Jeremiah, gives us an encouraging word that answers the question, what do we do in times like these? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives his inaugural sermon, quoting from the prophet, Isaiah, and calling all those who heard him then, and hear him today, into action.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Don't listen to Herod.  Listen to James Taylor instead.  (no transcript) Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Is it with much sadness to leave Detroit to accept another call, but Detroit has been there for me from the start and never turned it's back on this minister.  Detroit is a City of Redemption and I'm an example of it....grit and all. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today we consider some of the apocalyptic prophecies of Jesus and what they might mean in the world today. Then we look at what to do now, and how to find our way forward.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail All Saints Sunday is a day in the church in which we remember all those we have loved who have died -- all the saints. Today's Gospel reading tells the story of Jesus, when he wept because Lazarus had died, and when he resurrected Lazarus, even though he had been dead four days. The reading from Revelation gives us glimpses into what eternal life might look like. Today, Pasto...

Send us Fan Mail “…You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” So says Jesus in one of his most well-known quotes, so much so that even non-believers say it, especially when trying to convince someone who is resistant to hear the truth from which they turn away. Today’s sermon explains the truth and the freedom that Jesus was referring to when he said this and looks at how we might...

Send us Fan Mail A rare type of atonement that repeats itself in history. Support the show