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Following the Thread

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany (Year A)
January 19th, 2020

In the West, we deeply value determining our own destiny and to choose our own callings in life. But our calling may have far less to do with our choices than we like to believe, and much more to do with the thread of grace that we are each drawn to follow.

Duration: 19:47

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Christmas on the Muddy Road

The First Sunday after Christmas Day
December 29th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

The prologue to John’s gospel is so radical, so audacious, that it tells us something fundamental about the reach of God’s care and concern for us: that we will never be left alone anywhere.

Duration: 15:27

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Honking for the Peaceable Kingdom

The Second Sunday of Advent (Year A)
December 8th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

In a season where we are more crazed than usual, John the Baptist mirrors our crazed state by calling for repentance, and Isaiah offers us a radical new vision of God’s promise.

Duration: 18:51

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The Reign of Love

Christ the King - Proper 29 (Year C)
November 24th, 2019

by Patricia Rose

The image of Christ ruling from something as outrageous as a cross is meant to remind us that the kingdom is not about a power that this world trades in, but in an entirely different divine order of things, based on love.

Duration: 20:52

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Gaining Our Souls

Proper 28, Year C
November 17th, 2019

by Rev. Gerald Caprio

As the Church Year draws to a close, we are reminded of our time also coming towards an end. In a life filled with reminders of our transience, our mortality, Jesus exhorts us to endure and, in doing so, gain our souls.

Duration: 10:00

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Torah for the Age of Anxiety

Proper 27, Year C
November 10th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Our anxieties always give us tunnel vision, and worse, often lie and cheat us out of a full life with God. Jesus reminds us that we are loved beyond our wildest fears and our greatest joys, and not even death is an obstacle to the life that we have been promised.

Duration: 16:46

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