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Christmas Kenosis
A sermon on Philippians 2:5-11 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash.] I had not planned to preach a sermon today. I had discussed with the Worship & Music team instead offering some extemporaneous thoughts on the star words that you all just drew. (And for anyone who is interested, I’d love to chat about your star words during fellowship hour after worship). But during this week several unconnected conversations kept drawing
On Not Turning On the Light
Of all of the kinds of grief that I have experienced in my life, and there have been a number, I think possibly the most difficult for me to deal with is the grief of watching my children suffer. As a person with Major Depressive Disorder, I have a lot of strategies for dealing with my own pain. I have a therapist, and the gift of medication, and a strong support network, and decades of trial and error with different coping mechanisms. Less helpfully, I can also get comfortab
Tweaking the Formula of a Christmas Love Story
A Christmas Eve sermon on Luke 2:1-14 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash.] Throughout the season of Advent, our community has been pondering the theme of Holy Disruption, In worship, reflections, and learning activities we have explored the ways in which we can recognize God’s pattern of breaking into the status quo, turning things upside down, surprising our expectations, and bringing about changes that we don’t expect, but d
