Dialogue #1 – Mark Diller Harder and Don Penner Genesis 18:1-15 (Mark and Don go up on stage and sit on two stools. Have a dialogue) Mark: So Don, this service and the Scriptures we are using evolved in a different way that I had first imagined – maybe a bit like this […]
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I Have Seen The Lord! John 20:1-25 Introduction When my son was little, probably around age 5, I remember this one time we went for a hike as a family. And as children often do, he picked up a stick along the way. It was good for turning over stones to see what
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John 12:12-27; 19:16b-22 Dramatic Reading (sermon part 1) What a week it was. I saw people starting to line the streets one day and soon heard the crowds get louder and louder. As I elbowed my way to the front, I saw a man riding on a donkey. Most people were waving palm
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John 18:12-40 We are several Sundays into the season of Lent right now, the 6 weeks leading into Good Friday and Easter, the weeks where we follow the journey of Jesus toward the cross. This year our Lent worship themes and Scriptures have been guided by the worship materials given to us in
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Dwelling in Dissonance: Belief and Uncertainty John 11:1-45 Entering the Season of Lent This week in our worship service we enter the stories and season of Lent. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we lit the Advent candles, and celebrated the coming of the light to us and to all nations. And
John 12:1-11, John 13:1-17 There is a famous quote about unknown unknowns that came from the mouth of United States Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld in a news briefing on February 12, 2002. He was being questioned about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq and Saddam Hussein with the supply
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