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We talk about the strange way that the Easter story is told in Mark, and how it maybe isn’t so strange after all.

We consider Good Friday together and ask why it had to be this way - why the Cross?

We start our Holy Week series, the Heart, with Palm/Passion Sunday and the invitation to join Jesus this Holy Week as we consider what the "heart" of the Body of Christ is, the story of His suffering, death, and resurrection.

We end our "Wounded" series by talking about the wound of service/sacrifice and how we are given the opportunity and the position to serve others.

We talk about the "wound" of living counterculturally as Jesus' Body in the world in this 3rd week of Lent and our Lenten series "Wounded".

We continue our "Wounded" series with talking about the wound of being misunderstood by the world around us.

What is your biggest temptation? We start our Wounded series and we talk about what our biggest temptation really is - and that is to see ourselves as alone, not as unified together with the Body of Christ.

It is Transfiguration Sunday, so we talk about what that experience is like for the disciples, and how every Sunday is a "little Transfiguration" for all of us

We talk about how Jesus was always moving forward and how that should be a mark of His Church, always moving forward by His invitation

We celebrate Eleanor Anne's baptism while talking about how baptism works and how it relates to God's prophetic word.

Today we talk about our apprehensions in speaking to people about our faith, especially our apprehension of failure, and how Jesus has us covered even in that.

We continue our "Genome" series talking about the attributes of Jesus, that He knows us, and that as such, we can be set free to know other people.

We start off our "Genome" series with a question about who we are when we're Baptized and why Jesus' Baptism matters.

We talk about the commands to rejoice, to pray, and to give thanks – and how those are impossible for us without Christ.

We talked about Advent and what it means for us to repent, in addition to confessing our sins and believing in God's forgiveness.

We start off the season of Advent and a new Annual Focus year ("We are the Body") with a talk about what it means for us to "swap bodies" with Jesus and become the Body of Christ, the Church.

We end the church year by talking about Matthew 25 and how we are called to be the Body of Christ, and why that's a very good thing.

We talk today about the somewhat confusing parable of the talents and ask the question if God wants us to be prepared.

We celebrate(?) the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by talking about our freedom in Christ, and what it means to be people whose hearts are shaped by that freedom.

We talk about the greatest commandment, rule breaking, and what it means to be a Christian.

We talk about the parable of the wedding banquet and who the mysterious guest is who gets kicked out of the party.

We talk about our status as people who rent, but not own our bodies, but that God owns our bodies and even gave His Son for them.

Do you really want to get even? Or do you want to get ahead? How does God’s Word and Sacrament deal with us at a level that is the same for all of us?

What are we owed? That's the question that we're tackling, today, and how what we are owed might be distinct from what we owe God.

Sermon before Hurricane Irma. Receive the peace. Share the peace. Repeat.