• What Does Jesus Smell Like?

    By on March 18, 2024

    03/17/2024 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by Highwomen Father, Let Your...

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  • Taste & See

    By on March 11, 2024

    03/10/2024 Exodus 12:1-20 Kendall Vanderslice   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Open Unto Me by Thurman/Chambers Centering Prayer by...

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  • To Hold and Be Held

    By on March 4, 2024

    03/03/2024 John 13:18-30 Ty Wrage   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This is My Father’s World by Babcock Leaning...

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  • Finding God in the Sound of Silence

    By on February 26, 2024

    02/25/2024 1 Kings 19:9b-18 Toph Banke   Playlist from February 25, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Amazing Grace...

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  • The Difference Between Looking and Seeing

    By on February 19, 2024

    02/18/2024 Mark 8:22-25 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 18, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering From the Dust...

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  • Wildflowers & Everything All At Once

    By on February 12, 2024

    02/11/2024 Mark 9:2-9 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 11, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by...

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  • One of Us

    By on February 4, 2024

    02/04/2024 Mark 1:29-39 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 4, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Breastplate of St....

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  • Robots & Root Canals

    By on January 29, 2024

    01/28/2024 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 28, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Centering Prayer by...

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  • God is Already at Work (and so are you)

    By on January 22, 2024

    01/21/2024 Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 21, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Shall Be...

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  • Cold Coffee, Kitchen Tables, & Being Known Before You Even Knew It

    By on January 14, 2024

    01/14/2024 John 1:43-51 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 14, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There...

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  • (Dis)located Love

    By on December 24, 2023

    12/24/2023 John 1:14 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 24, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Silent Night by...

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  • That Ancient Joy

    By on December 17, 2023

    12/17/2023 John 1:9-13 Ty Wrage   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Simeon by The Jonah Project Hark! The Herald...

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  • Advent’s Pointing Finger

    By on December 11, 2023

    12/10/2023 John 1:6-8; 29-34 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering He Comes by Porter’s Gate Worship Canticle...

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  • To Cast Away the Works of Darkness

    By on December 4, 2023

    12/03/2023 John 1:1-5 Toph Banke   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Shepherds & Angels by The Jonah Project Sing...

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  • Muir Christianity (St. John Muir)

    By on November 27, 2023

    11/26/2023 Psalm 31:1-8 Ty Wrage   Slides from November 26, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering New Wonders by...

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  • Coming to Life (St. Ignatius of Loyola)

    By on November 19, 2023

    11/19/2023 Psalm 139 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 19, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Centering Prayer by...

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  • Follow the Child (St. Maria Montessori)

    By on November 13, 2023

    11/12/2023 Isaiah 11:1-9 Meg Hoffman   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace Like a River by Traditional Great is...

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  • The Price of Liberty (St. Ida B. Wells)

    By on November 6, 2023

    11/05/2023 Esther 4:4-17 Toph Banke   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Have Mercy by Paper Horses Canticle of the...

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  • Pastor Meg Ministry Transition Announcement

    By on November 6, 2023

    11/05/2023 Pastor Meg announces her transition into a new ministry with Lilly Endowment’s Christian Parents and Caregivers Initiative. We’ll...

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  • Love, Actually

    By on October 30, 2023

    10/29/2023 Matthew 22:34-40 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 29, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All Ye...

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  • The Difference Between Paying & Praying

    By on October 23, 2023

    10/22/2023 Matthew 22:15-22 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 22, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Take It Easy...

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  • Pilgrimage of Pain & Hope Testimony: Anna & Toph Banke

    By on October 23, 2023

    10/22/2023 Anna & Toph Banke   Consider being a part of Oak Church’s Pilgrimage on November 10-12, 2023 (in...

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  • A Crowded Table

    By on October 16, 2023

    10/15/2023 Luke 14:7-24 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by The Highwomen All Ye Refugees...

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  • Vines, Stones, & Fruit

    By on October 9, 2023

    10/08/2023 Matthew 21:33-46 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Our God is Present by White All Ye...

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  • Holding it Together

    By on October 2, 2023

    10/01/2023 Colossians 1:15-23 (the Message) Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Things New by Red Mountain...

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  • Season of Creation Testimony: Josh Cadorette

    By on October 2, 2023

    10/01/2023 Josh Cadorette   Sharing experiences of encountering God through Creation.

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  • The Grace of Time

    By on September 25, 2023

    09/24/2023 Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Ty Wrage   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Take it Easy by Porter’s Gate Worship Bring...

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  • Season of Creation Testimony: Elizabeth Christenson

    By on September 25, 2023

    09/24/2023 Elizabeth Christenson   Sharing experiences of encountering God through Creation.

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  • Hallelujah, y’all!

    By on September 18, 2023

    09/17/2023 Psalm 148 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord...

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  • Season of Creation Testimony: Natasha Arnold

    By on September 18, 2023

    09/17/2023 Natasha Arnold   Sharing experiences of encountering God through Creation.

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  • Human Propensities & Good Bones

    By on September 11, 2023

    09/10/2023 Genesis 2:25-3:7 & Romans 8:18-25 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering A Way to You (Isaac...

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  • Season of Creation Testimony: Janna Starr

    By on September 11, 2023

    09/10/2023 Janna Starr   Sharing experiences of encountering God through Creation.

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  • The God of Creation, Labor, & Rest

    By on September 5, 2023

    09/03/2023 Genesis 1:1-2:9 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Creatures of Our God & King by...

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  • The Subversive Act of “Knowing”

    By on August 28, 2023

    08/27/2023 Exodus 1:8-2:10 Toph Banke   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Jesus Loves the Little Children/He’s Got The Whole...

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  • Dogs are Sheep Too

    By on August 21, 2023

    08/20/2023 Matthew 15:21-27 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Breastplate of St. Patrick by Porter’s Gate Worship...

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  • (Not Quite) Walking on Water

    By on August 13, 2023

    08/13/2023 Matthew 14:22-33 Hannah Wheeler & Justin Farmer   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No...

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  • Saved By Grace (& Potlucks)

    By on August 7, 2023

    08/06/2023 Matthew 14:13-21 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Earth is Yours by Gungor This is...

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  • A Church in This Place

    By on July 31, 2023

    07/30/2023 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Slides from July 30th.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace Like a...

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  • Liminal Space & Agreeing In Spirit

    By on July 23, 2023

    07/23/23 Romans 8:12-25 Meg Hoffman   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love Is Strong by Foreman Take It...

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  • Growing & Sowing

    By on July 17, 2023

    07/16/2023 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Thomas Kortus   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by Porter’s Gate Worship...

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  • Paradoxology

    By on July 9, 2023

    07/09/2023 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Restore Us Again by...

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  • Peace That Surpasses Understanding

    By on June 26, 2023

    06/25/2023 Matthew 10:24-39 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All of Your Ways Are...

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  • Our New Ordinary

    By on June 19, 2023

    06/18/2023 Romans 5:1-8 Meg Hoffman & Brodie Heginbotham   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering You Hold it All Together...

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  • But Sick People Do

    By on June 11, 2023

    06/11/2023 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar...

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  • Welcome to Ordinary

    By on June 5, 2023

    06/04/2023 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by Porter’s Gate Worship Project...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Andy Shaver

    By on June 5, 2023

    06/04/2023 Andy Shaver   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Wayfarers, Truth-tellers, Vivifiers

    By on May 28, 2023

    05/28/2023 Acts 2:1-13 & Galatians 5:13-26 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Flourishing by McCracken This Joy...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Nicole Kamrass

    By on May 28, 2023

    05/28/2023 Nicole Kamrass   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Light, Both Visible and Invisible

    By on May 22, 2023

    05/21/2023 Matthew 5:14-16 Mark Acuff   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Little Light of Mine by Traditional The...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Nate Sawyer

    By on May 22, 2023

    05/21/2023 Nate Sawyer   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Vulnerable, Fed, & Led

    By on May 15, 2023

    05/14/2023 John 21:12-19 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Breastplate of St. Patrick by Porter’s Gate...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Junie Harris

    By on May 15, 2023

    05/14/2023 Junie Harris   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Chosen, Blessed, Broken, Given

    By on May 8, 2023

    05/07/2023 Luke 24:28-35 Justin Farmer   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering A Way to You (Isaac of Nineveh) by...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Calvin Gross

    By on May 8, 2023

    05/07/2023 Calvin Gross   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Deep Roots & Strong, Weird Networks

    By on May 1, 2023

    04/30/2023 Ephesians 3:16-19 & 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Slides from April 30, 2023 Music...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Hannah Wheeler

    By on May 1, 2023

    04/30/2023 Hannah Wheeler   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • A Good Gate Makes Good Neighbors

    By on April 24, 2023

    04/23/2023 Romans 12:9-21 Chris Breslin   Slides from April 23, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Fifty Miles of...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Justin Farmer

    By on April 24, 2023

    04/23/2023 Justin Farmer   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • Resurrection is a Team Sport

    By on April 17, 2023

    04/16/2023 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   Slides from April 16, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Open Unto Me...

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  • Oak Folk Testimony: Nicole Kallsen

    By on April 17, 2023

    04/16/2023 Nicole Kallsen   Sharing experiences of encountering Jesus.

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  • The Clap & the Clasp (Easter)

    By on April 10, 2023

    04/09/2023 John 20:1-18 | John 11:17-27 Chris Breslin   Easter Baptism Worship Gathering

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  • Through Eyes That Have Cried (Easter Vigil)

    By on April 10, 2023

    04/09/2023 John 20:1-18 | John 11:17-27 Meg Hoffman   Easter Morning Vigil

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  • A Holy Intersection (Good Friday)

    By on April 8, 2023

    04/07/2023 Curt Lowndes   Stations of the Cross with the Gathering Church View stations program

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  • The Doorway to Salvation

    By on April 5, 2023

    04/02/2023 John 12:12-18 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Daughters of Zion by Porter’s Gate Worship Project Hail...

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  • Vine, Vinter, & Wine

    By on March 27, 2023

    03/26/2023 John 15:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides from March 26, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Brother Sun by Porter’s...

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  • Bread That Binds Us Together

    By on March 20, 2023

    03/19/2023 John 6:25-35 Kendall Vanderslice     Kendall’s new...

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  • An Extraordinary Shepherd

    By on March 12, 2023

    03/12/2023 John 10:1-21 Meg Hoffman   Slides from March 12, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by...

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  • An Illuminating Presence

    By on March 6, 2023

    03/05/2023 John 8:1-12 Chris Breslin   Slides from March 5, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering I Want to...

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  • A Significant Journey

    By on February 27, 2023

    02/26/2023 John 14:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 26, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering From the Dust by...

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  • Sowing Seeds of Transfiguration

    By on February 20, 2023

    02/19/2023 Matthew 17:1-9 Natasha Arnold   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Transfiguration by Stevens Come Thou Fount by Robinson The...

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  • The Keys to the Kingdom

    By on February 13, 2023

    02/12/2023 Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love is Strong by Foreman Just a Closer...

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  • Tasting & Seeing the Kingdom

    By on February 6, 2023

    02/05/2023 Matthew 5:13-20 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No East or West by...

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  • Anticipating the Kingdom

    By on January 30, 2023

    01/29/2023 Matthew 5:1-12 (The Message) Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Blessed are the Merciful by the Porter’s...

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  • Confessions of Love (St. Augustine of Hippo)

    By on January 23, 2023

    01/22/2023 1 Corinthians 13 Wilco de Vries   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering They Will Know We Are Christians...

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  • Reflections from Pastor Meg’s Staybatical

    By on January 23, 2023

    Testimony by Pastor Meg Hoffman after her Winter 2022 Sabbatical.

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  • The Unassuming, All-Consuming Kingdom of God

    By on January 15, 2023

    01/15/2023 Revelation 5 Natasha Arnold   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Hope of the Poor by Kimbrough Father, Let Your...

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  • Kings & the God of Gifts (Tres Reyes Magos)

    By on January 9, 2023

    01/08/2023 Matthew 2:1-12 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar Peace Like a River, traditional...

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  • The > A

    By on December 25, 2022

    12/25/2022 Christmas Morning John 1:1-14 The Message Chris Breslin

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  • Here, Now, God with Us

    By on December 25, 2022

    12/24/2022 Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols Chris Breslin Joy to the World Jam

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  • Anticipating the Unexpected

    By on December 18, 2022

    12/18/2022 Isaiah 7:10-16 Natasha Arnold   Slides from December 18, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Silent Night by Mohr...

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  • Joy Springs Up

    By on December 12, 2022

    12/11/2022 Isaiah 35 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 11, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Psalm 126 by Bifrost...

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  • Life in the Peaceable Kingdom

    By on December 5, 2022

    12/04/2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 4, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All You Weary by...

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  • Life is Advent

    By on November 28, 2022

    11/27/2022 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 27, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lo How A...

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  • The Kingdom of God is a Neighborhood (St. Fred Rogers)

    By on November 21, 2022

    11/20/2022 Mark 10:13-16 Natasha Arnold   Slides from November 20, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Brother by The...

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  • The Saving Blood of Jesus (St. Julian of Norwich)

    By on November 14, 2022

    11/13/2022 Hebrews 10:19-24 Meg Hoffman   Slides from November 13, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering It Is Well...

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  • Upside Down & Backwards (St. Libba Cotten)

    By on November 7, 2022

    11/06/2022 Matthew 13:44, 51-58 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 6, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Freight Train...

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  • A Great Cloud & Tiny Drops

    By on October 30, 2022

    10/30/2022 Hebrews 12:1-2 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 30, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering When the Saints...

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  • A Parable for the Powerful

    By on October 24, 2022

    10/23/2022 Luke 18:9-14 Justin Farmer   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering They Will Know We Are Christians by Scholtes Come...

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  • The Ministry of Needling

    By on October 17, 2022

    10/16/2022 Luke 18:1-8 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering How Long? by Bifrost Arts What a Friend We...

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  • A Well-Making Faith

    By on October 9, 2022

    10/09/2022 Luke 17:11-19 Chris Breslin Slides from October 9, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Open Unto Me...

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  • Resting in the God of Naps

    By on October 3, 2022

    10/02/2022 Exodus 20:8-11 Natasha Arnold Slides from October 2, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come Light Our...

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  • Parables of Redemption

    By on September 25, 2022

    09/25/2022 Luke 16:19-31 Jesse Rudy (Redeem International) Slides from September 25, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This...

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  • How to Win Friends and Influence People?

    By on September 18, 2022

    09/18/2022 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Little Light of Mine by Folk Standard Peace...

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  • Celebrating with the God Who Loses

    By on September 11, 2022

    09/11/2022 Luke 15:1-10 Chris Breslin Slides from September 11, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Father, Let Your...

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  • Introducing Oak Pastoral Intern: Natasha Arnold

    By on September 11, 2022

    09/11/2022 Testimony: Natasha Arnold Get to know Natasha: I am originally from Olathe, Kansas and it is considered part...

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  • …lose it, all, right away, every time…

    By on September 6, 2022

    09/04/2022 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin Slides from September 4, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Woke Up This...

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  • Feasting This Fall (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 29, 2022

    08/28/2022 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Chris Breslin + Blessing of the Books testimony panel (Charlotte Ellison, Sara Baker, Stephanie Holmer,...

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  • A Good Day To Be Set Free

    By on August 21, 2022

    08/21/2022 Luke 13:10-17 Chris Breslin Slides from August 21, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Restore Us Again by...

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  • The Weather & What God Is Up To

    By on August 15, 2022

    08/14/2022 Luke 12:49-56 Chris Breslin Slides from August 14, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Enclosed by You by...

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  • When & How God Arrives

    By on August 8, 2022

    08/07/2022 Luke 12:32-40 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Oil in My Vessel by Traditional arr. Thompson Just...

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  • Breslin Sabbatical Recap

    By on August 8, 2022

    08/07/2022 Pastors Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin share a Q&A about the Breslin’s summer sabbatical.

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  • We Are the Body

    By on August 4, 2022

    07/31/2022 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 Meg Hoffman   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Showalter/Hoffman Peace...

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  • Human Bricks

    By on July 25, 2022

    07/24/2022 Nehemiah 8 Brodie Heginbotham Music for Sunday’s worship gathering How Long? by Bifrost Arts No Not One (Trad. Arr....

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  • Standing In The Right Place

    By on July 25, 2022

    07/17/2022 Nehemiah 5 Natasha Arnold Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There Is No East Or West (Trad....

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  • Climate and Community [Avery Davis Lamb]

    By on July 13, 2022

    07/10/2022 Nehemiah 2 Avery Davis Lamb Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Little Light of Mine (Traditional) All Creatures of...

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  • Chivalry Is Dead

    By on July 6, 2022

    07/03/2022 Ezra 10:1-6 Brodie Heginbotham Music for Sunday’s worship gathering God So Loved by We The Kingdom No Not One (Traditional)...

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  • The Wall In Your Head [Dr. Stephen Chapman]

    By on June 28, 2022

    06/26/2022 Ezra 9 Stephen Chapman Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Shirley Caesar Be Thou My Vision...

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  • How To Have An Enemy

    By on June 23, 2022

    06/19/2022 Ezra 4:1-5 Brodie Heginbotham Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There Is No East or West (Traditional...

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  • Repairing & Remaining

    By on June 15, 2022

    06/12/2022 Ezra 3 Sabrina Chan Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Jesus Lifted Me by Elizabeth Cotten Praise to the Lord,...

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  • Inauspicious Beginnings

    By on June 7, 2022

    06/05/2022 Ezra 1:1-5 Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube Music for Sunday’s worship gathering They Will...

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  • Trust in the Slow Work of God

    By on June 1, 2022

    05/29/2022 Ephesians 1:15-23 Chris Breslin Slides From May 29, 2022   Music for Sunday’s Worship Gathering: May the Mind...

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  • Where Pentecost Happens (St. William Seymour)

    By on May 22, 2022

    05/22/2022 Acts 2:1-13 Justin Farmer Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Woke...

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  • Where We Start From

    By on May 16, 2022

    05/15/2022 Revelation 21:1-6 Chris Breslin Slides from May 15, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • 2022 Oak Graduate Blessing

    By on May 16, 2022

    05/15/2022 Testimony Short recognition and testimonies from 8 graduates in our church community.

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  • The Tunic Maker & the Tanner [Kaitlyn Schiess]

    By on May 8, 2022

    05/08/2022 Acts 9:36-43 Kaitlyn Schiess Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This...

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  • The Kingdom Work of Play

    By on May 2, 2022

    05/01/2022 Matthew 18:1-5 Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Slides from May 1, 2022   Music...

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  • The Confusing New Newness of It All

    By on April 25, 2022

    04/24/2022 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Slides from April 24, 2022   Music...

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  • From the Depths

    By on April 18, 2022

    04/17/2022 – Easter Sunday Psalm 130 & Luke 24:1-12 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • Those Who Hate Peace

    By on April 17, 2022

    04/15/2022 – Good Friday Psalm 120 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.

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  • A Borrowed Donkey & a Weeping Messiah

    By on April 11, 2022

    04/10/2022 – Palm Sunday Psalm 126 & Luke 19:28-44 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • God Surrounds Us

    By on April 3, 2022

    04/03/2022 Psalm 125 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Enclosed...

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  • Flourishing on the Way

    By on March 31, 2022

    03/27/2022 Psalm 128 Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Take...

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  • When We Get There

    By on March 21, 2022

    03/20/2022 Psalm 122 Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Fifty...

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  • Building the House of Tomorrow

    By on March 13, 2022

    03/13/2022 Psalm 127 Meg Hoffman Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Kingdom...

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  • Cultivating a Quieted Heart

    By on March 7, 2022

    03/06/2022 Psalm 131 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Leaning...

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  • A Feature, Not A Bug

    By on February 28, 2022

    02/27/2022 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin Slides from February 27, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • Of Good Measure

    By on February 21, 2022

    02/20/2022 Luke 6:27-38 Chris Breslin Slides from February 20, 2022 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgroves’s Y’all Saints sermon on Ann Atwater Watch...

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  • A Level Place

    By on February 14, 2022

    02/13/2022 Luke 6:17-26 Brodie Heginbotham Slides from February 13, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • The Fellowship Haul

    By on February 7, 2022

    02/06/2022 Luke 5:1-11 Chris Breslin Slides from February 6, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • Some Great Thing vs. A Local Gospel

    By on January 31, 2022

    01/30/2022 Luke 4:21-30 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace...

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  • Jesus’ One Sermon

    By on January 24, 2022

    01/23/2022 Luke 4:11-21 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Hail...

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  • Whatever He Tells You

    By on January 16, 2022

    01/16/2022 John 2:1-11 Rev. Dorothy Clark Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering...

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  • Seeing and Praying in the New Year

    By on January 4, 2022

    01/02/2022 Visio Divina with Matthew 6:9-15 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 2, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols with the Gathering Church

    By on December 27, 2021

    12/24/2021 Genesis 1:1-5 | Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 | Luke 1:26-38 Curt Lowndes, Brodie Heginbotham, & Elizabeth Swett   Order...

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  • A Promise & A Calling

    By on December 20, 2021

    12/19/2021 Luke 1:39-55 Brodie Heginbotham   Slides from December 19, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • Instead of Armoring Up

    By on December 13, 2021

    12/12/2021 Luke 3:6-18 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 12, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • A Cosmic Christmas (Oak Kids Christmas Pageant)

    By on December 6, 2021

    12/05/2021 Communion homily by Chris Breslin   Slides from December 5, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube....

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  • Always Only Advent

    By on November 29, 2021

    11/28/2021 Luke 21:25-36 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 28, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • Strange Birds & the God of ‘Extra’ (St. Flannery O’Connor)

    By on November 21, 2021

    11/21/2021 John 6:1-16 Dr. Dan Train   Slides from November 21, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube....

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  • The Lord is With You (St. Harriet Jacobs)

    By on November 15, 2021

    11/14/2021 Luke 1:26-38 Brodie Heginbotham   Slides from November 14, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Creating a Durable Life Together (St. Benedict of Nursia)

    By on November 8, 2021

    11/07/2021 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 7, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Y’all Saints: Communion of Saints

    By on November 1, 2021

    10/31/2021 Hebrews 12:1-2 Meg Hoffman   Slides from October 31, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Agents of Instead-ness

    By on October 24, 2021

    10/24/2021 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Fruitful Self-Control

    By on October 18, 2021

    10/17/2021 2 Peter 1:1-9 Chris Breslin   Slides from Sunday October 17, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via...

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  • Fruitful Gentleness

    By on October 11, 2021

    10/10/2021 Titus 3:1-7 Brodie Heginbotham   Slides from Sunday October 10, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube....

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  • Fruitful Faithfulness

    By on October 4, 2021

    10/03/2021 Romans 1:13-17 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Repost: Kate Bowler at Oak Church

    By on September 28, 2021

    To celebrate Kate’s new book, No Cure for Being Human, listen in to this archived unedited version of The Road...

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  • Fruitful Goodness

    By on September 27, 2021

    09/26/2021 Genesis 1 Meg Hoffman   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Fruitful Kindness

    By on September 20, 2021

    09/19/2021 Romans 2:1-4 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak...

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  • Fruitful Patience

    By on September 13, 2021

    09/12/2021 Romans 5:4-6 Brodie Heginbotham   Sermon slides Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak...

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  • Fruitful Joy & Peace

    By on September 6, 2021

    09/05/2021 Romans 15:13 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides Meet Pastoral Intern Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via...

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  • Fruitful Love

    By on August 30, 2021

    08/29/2021 Romans 8:35-39 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides with Blessing of the Books Prayers. Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • A Cure for Face-Blindness

    By on August 24, 2021

    08/22/2021 Acts 9:1-22 Stephanie Holmer   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Boundless

    By on August 16, 2021

    08/15/2021 Acts 8:26-40 Mark Acuff   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Money, Magic, & ‘Illegitimi Non Carborundum’

    By on August 9, 2021

    08/08/2021 Acts 8:4-25 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Can I Be a Witness?

    By on August 2, 2021

    08/01/2021 Acts 6:8-15 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Fragments of Heaven

    By on July 25, 2021

    07/25/2021 Acts 6:1-7 Andre Franklin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Everything About This New Life

    By on July 19, 2021

    07/18/2021 Acts 5:17-32 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Currency of a New Kingdom

    By on July 13, 2021

    07/11/2021 Acts 4:37-5:16 Brodie Heginbotham   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Just One Justices

    By on July 5, 2021

    07/04/2021 Acts 4:5-22 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Good Shepherd & the World Communion

    By on June 27, 2021

    06/27/2021 John 10:1-18 Meg Hoffman   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • “But This is How God…”: Peter & the Spirit’s Jazz

    By on June 23, 2021

    06/20/2021 Acts 3:17-4:5 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • We Give What We Have

    By on June 14, 2021

    06/13/2021 Acts 3:1-16 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • We Are How We Eat

    By on June 7, 2021

    06/06/2021 Acts 2:42-47 Justin Farmer   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • This is That

    By on May 30, 2021

    05/30/2021 Acts 2:22-41 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Gardens, Grenades, & Google-Translate

    By on May 24, 2021

    05/23/2021 Acts 2:1-21 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Considering the Lilies

    By on May 17, 2021

    05/16/2021 Matthew 6:16-34 Meg Hoffman   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Learning to Talk and Listen to God [Will Willimon]

    By on May 10, 2021

    05/09/2021 Matthew 6:1-15 Will Willimon   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • New Plans for the Nonviolent Kingdom

    By on May 3, 2021

    05/02/2021 Matthew 5:38-48 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Concrete Good News

    By on April 26, 2021

    04/25/2021 Matthew 5:17-20 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • This Little Light of Mine

    By on April 19, 2021

    04/18/2021 Matthew 5:13-16 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Sermon on the Parking Lot

    By on April 11, 2021

    04/11/2021 Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Beautiful/Terrible Resurrection

    By on April 5, 2021

    04/04/2021 John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Descending Theology: The Resurrection by Mary Karr

    By on April 5, 2021

    From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched in—black ice and squid ink— till the hung...

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  • The Beautiful/Terrible Cross (Good Friday)

    By on April 5, 2021

    04/02/2021 with the Gathering Church Psalm 22 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this...

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  • What Do I Do with this Anger?

    By on March 29, 2021

    03/28/2021 Psalm 94 Sabrina Chan   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • The Poet Thinks About the Donkey by Mary Oliver

    By on March 29, 2021

    On the outskirts of Jerusalem the donkey waited. Not especially brave, or filled with understanding, he stood and waited....

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  • Who Gives You Thanks from the Grave?

    By on March 23, 2021

    03/21/2021 Psalm 6 Yudai Chiba   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • VI. Domine, Ne In Furore by Malcolm Guite

    By on March 23, 2021

    Whose mercy wakes me at the break of day? I feel my weakness, all my bones are vexed And...

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  • What Keeps You Up At Night?

    By on March 15, 2021

    03/14/2021 Psalm 4 Charlene Brown   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • Epilogue by Christian Wiman

    By on March 15, 2021

    The more I think the more I feel reality without reverence is not real.   The more I feel...

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  • Teach us to Number our Days: A Story of Pandemic Parenting in 3 Acts

    By on March 8, 2021

    03/07/2021 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • Bright Field by R.S. Thomas

    By on March 8, 2021

    I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way...

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  • Our Last Words and the Words After That

    By on March 1, 2021

    02/28/2021 Psalm 61 Chris Breslin   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • How I Talk to God by Kelly Belmonte

    By on March 1, 2021

    Coffee in one hand leaning in to share, listen: How I talk to God. “Momma, you’re special.” Three-year-old touches...

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  • It’s Both Better & Worse Than We Thought

    By on February 22, 2021

    02/21/2021 Psalm 51 Chris Breslin   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • Late Results by Scott Cairns

    By on February 22, 2021

    From 02/21/21 (Lent 1) worship gathering. Paired with Psalm 51. We wanted to confess our sins but there were...

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  • Ash Wednesday Evening Prayer

    By on February 18, 2021

    02/17/2021 A collaborative worship gathering with the Gathering Church Curt Lowndes   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube....

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  • An Outward-Facing Intimacy (St. Valentine)

    By on February 15, 2021

    02/14/2021 1 John 4:7-21 Meg Hoffman (Godly Play lesson) & Chris Breslin (homily)   Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • Healing Power with & from Intimacy

    By on February 8, 2021

    02/07/2021 Mark 1:29-45 Chris Breslin & Calvin Gross (testimony)   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this...

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  • The Ministry of Bear-poking & Tooth-extraction

    By on February 1, 2021

    01/31/2021 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 31, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Kitchen Tables & Sea Shores

    By on January 25, 2021

    01/24/2021 Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 24, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • God Knows Us

    By on January 18, 2021

    01/17/2021 John 1:43-51 Yudai Chiba   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Epiphany Means Revelation

    By on January 11, 2021

    01/10/2021 Mark 1:4-11 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Los Tres Reyes Magos (testimony by Pastor Ricardo Correa)

    By on January 11, 2021

    On this Epiphany Sunday, we were joined for a brief testimony by Pastor Ricardo Correa (CANU) as he shares...

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  • Son of God & Son of Mary

    By on December 21, 2020

    12/20/2020 Luke 1:26-38 Yudai Chiba   Slides for December 20, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Hark the Herald...

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  • Hope & Joy Collude (Advent 3)

    By on December 14, 2020

    12/13/2020 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   Slides for December 13, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Angels We Have...

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  • The 3mph Kingdom Coming (Advent 2)

    By on December 7, 2020

    12/06/2020 Mark 1:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides for December 6, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Lord is...

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  • Staying Awake for a Change (Advent 1)

    By on November 30, 2020

    11/29/2020 Mark 13:24-36 Chris Breslin   Slides for November 29, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come, Thou Long...

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  • No Mechanic of the Flesh: Suffering with & for Nagasaki (St. Takashi Nagai)

    By on November 23, 2020

    11/22/2020 John 16:32-17:5 Yudai Chiba   Takashi Nagai (永井 隆) was a Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author,...

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  • A Ministry of Stirring the Pot (St. Pauli Murray)

    By on November 16, 2020

    11/15/2020 Matthew 12:1-14 Meg Hoffman   Pauli Murray was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, a women’s...

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  • A Deliberate & Liberative Rest (Oak Church 6th Anniversary)

    By on October 26, 2020

    10/25/2020 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin Oak Folk Testimonies by Brynn Pendrak, Joey Morningstar, & Carolina Kammel Slides from October...

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  • A Fellowship For All People (St. Howard Thurman)

    By on October 19, 2020

    10/18/2020 Philemon 4-11, 17 Byron Cogdell   Howard Thurman was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader....

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  • Never Alone

    By on October 12, 2020

    10/11/2020 John 14:15-29 Yudai Chiba   Godly Play at Home   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Pass Us Not...

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  • Introducing Nate Hood (Oak Church Resident Artist)

    By on October 12, 2020

    Alexandra Burchette introduces one of the 2020-21 Brehm Center Resident Artists. Nate Hood is from Matthews, NC, the home of the...

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  • A People Who Bear the Kingdom’s Fruit

    By on October 5, 2020

    10/04/2020 Matthew 21:33-46 (Proper 22) Chris Breslin   “It is very easy to be servants of the word without...

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  • Introducing Bethie Figgie (Oak Church Resident Artist)

    By on October 5, 2020

    Pastor Chris introduces one of the 2020-21 Brehm Center Resident Artists. Bethie Figgie is from Bellingham, WA, the home...

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  • Don’t Call Me a Saint (St. Dorothy Day) [D.L. Mayfield]

    By on September 28, 2020

    09/27/2020 Psalm 126 D.L. Mayfield   Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a...

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  • Introducing Sayde Anderson (Oak Church Resident Artist)

    By on September 28, 2020

    Congregational liaison Alexandra Burchette introduces one of the 2020-21 Brehm Center Resident Artists. Sayde Anderson is from Denver, Colorado...

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  • Confusing Grace: God’s Vast Conspiracy of Enoughness

    By on September 21, 2020

    09/20/2020 Matthew 20:1-16 (Proper 20) Chris Breslin   “All my stories are about the action of grace on a...

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  • Never Forget Mercy

    By on September 14, 2020

    09/13/2020 Matthew 18:21-35 (Proper 19) Chris Breslin Testimony and introduction of Yudai Chiba (2020-21 Pastoral Intern) “Through my memory...

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  • Like the Gentiles & Tax Collectors

    By on September 7, 2020

    09/06/2020 Matthew 18:15-20 (Proper 18) Justin Farmer   Godly Play at Home Practical Tips and Resources for Hand Copying...

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  • God Loves You & Has a Cross Planned for Your Life

    By on August 31, 2020

    08/30/2020 Matthew 16:21-28 (Proper 17) Chris Breslin   “Jesus gives his disciples a new barometer.” Whereas the God’s people’s...

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  • The Cross & the Mustard Seed (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 24, 2020

    08/23/2020 Matthew 13:31-33 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Godly Play at Home Practical Tips and Resources for Hand...

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  • A Persistent Prayer for Humble Access

    By on August 17, 2020

    08/16/2020 Matthew 15:21-28 (Proper 15) Chris Breslin   We do not presume to come to this your table, O...

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  • God Moves on the Water

    By on August 10, 2020

    08/09/2020 Matthew 14:22-33 (Proper 14) Chris Breslin   “Faith is not a characteristic. Faith is not a personality trait....

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  • The Ordination of Meg Hoffman

    By on August 3, 2020

    08/02/2020 Psalm 68:4-6a Rev. Meg Hoffman & Rev. Chris Breslin   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Nothing to Fear...

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  • The Resurrection & the Life: Jesus & Vacant Tombs [Andy Byers]

    By on July 27, 2020

    07/26/2020 John 11:14-44 Rev. Dr. Andy Byers   Slides for July 26, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More...

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  • Forgiven-ness & Sheep-Feeding

    By on July 20, 2020

    07/19/2020 John 21:9-19 Chris Breslin   “Kichijiro who has been the Judas figure throughout, turns out to be Fr....

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  • More Than What It Currently Is

    By on July 14, 2020

    07/12/2020 Ephesians 3:10-21 Charlene Brown   “The “rulers and authorities”— both the earthly authorities and their shadowy heavenly counterparts—...

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  • God’s Breath in Breathless Times

    By on July 7, 2020

    07/05/2020 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Hope sounds like a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   Slides...

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  • The Restorative Judge

    By on June 29, 2020

    06/28/2020 Acts 10:34-43 Chris Breslin “In his appearing we find neither a dualist rejection of the present world nor...

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  • The Gifts of the Ever-Present Christ

    By on June 22, 2020

    06/21/2020 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin   “ stripping off garment after garment, making himself naked, then flashing...

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  • Jesus Grabbed Me By the Wrist

    By on June 15, 2020

    06/14/2020 John 11:1-44 Chris Breslin   “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.”...

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  • The Healing Wounds of Jesus

    By on June 11, 2020

    06/07/2020 Isaiah 53 Chris Breslin   “God’s ‘yes’ will always have the final say over our ‘no.’ God’s justice...

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  • The Imitation of Mary [Chris E.W. Green]

    By on June 1, 2020

    05/31/2020 Passages from Luke 1 & 2 Dr. Chris E. W. Green   Slides from May 31, 2020 Godly...

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  • Walk This Way: Resurrection, Scripture, and Eating with Jesus by Fr. Mike Boone

    By on May 31, 2020

    Fr. Mike Boone passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday May 26, 2020 at his home in Bremerton, WA. He was...

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  • Lord, Teach Us To Follow

    By on May 25, 2020

    05/24/2020 Mark 8:27-35 Joe Longarino   Godly Play at Home   More resources on Faith and the Apostles’ Creed:...

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  • This Is My Father’s World

    By on May 18, 2020

    05/17/2020 Luke 15:11-32 Chris Breslin   “It’s the unlimited power to be there, to be faithful to and for...

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  • Beautiful, Credible Friends

    By on May 11, 2020

    05/10/2020 1 Peter 2:2-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from May 10, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More resources...

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  • Intense, Immersed, Intimate, & In Awe

    By on May 4, 2020

    05/03/2020 Acts 2:42-47 Dr. Linda Gorham   Dr. Linda F. Gorham is the President and Founder of Spring in...

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  • The Stranger on the Road

    By on April 27, 2020

    04/26/2020 Luke 24:13-35 Christian DaPonte   Godly Play at Home Download Songs for Good Friday by Oak Music  ...

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  • Peace, Even in Lockdown

    By on April 19, 2020

    04/19/2020 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin   “When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man....

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  • [Repost] Slow Church w/C. Christopher Smith

    By on April 17, 2020

    Five years ago (4/16/15) we hosted C. Christopher Smith for a talk and potluck conversation (sponsored by Duke Divinity...

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  • Do Not Be Afraid

    By on April 13, 2020

    04/12/2020 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin   “I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist, Jesus Christ is risen from the...

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  • Love So Amazing (Good Friday audio version)

    By on April 10, 2020

    Video version available via Youtube Slides of Featured Artwork Presentation Song: “Daughters of Zion” By Isaac Wardell, Erin Rose...

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  • Worshipping the God Who is Working Even When We Can’t See It (Palm Sunday)

    By on April 6, 2020

    04/05/2020 John 12:12-19 Kurt Bubalo Testimony by Jessica Farmer   Godly Play at Home   More resources for the...

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  • The Fast We Didn’t Choose

    By on March 30, 2020

    03/29/2020 Isaiah 58:5-10 Chris Breslin   “The self-denial involved in the period of Lent isn’t about just giving up...

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  • Lament in a Time of Coronavirus [Amy Peterson]

    By on March 23, 2020

    03/22/2020 Lamentations 1 Amy Peterson   Amy Peterson is a writer, teacher, and postulant living in Durham, NC. Her...

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  • The Language of Community [Richella Parham]

    By on March 9, 2020

    03/08/2020 1 John 1:1-9 Richella Parham   “The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive...

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  • Hammer is the Prayer

    By on March 2, 2020

    03/01/2020 Philippians 4:4-9 Chris Breslin   “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against...

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  • Transfigurate

    By on February 24, 2020

    02/23/2020 Psalm 99 & Matthew 17:1-9 Chris Breslin   “The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and...

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  • Discipleship for Losers*

    By on February 17, 2020

    02/16/2020 Psalm 119:1-9 & Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin   “Only the cross as God’s truth about us makes us...

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  • Kingdom Values and the Valuable Cross

    By on February 3, 2020

    02/02/2020 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin   “To be a Negro in this country and to...

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  • An Extraordinary Call

    By on January 27, 2020

    01/26/2020 Psalm 27 & Matthew 4:12-23 Chris Breslin   “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us...

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  • The Mindset of Christ

    By on January 20, 2020

    01/19/2020 Genesis 1:26-27 & Philippians 1:27-2:12 Stephanie Holmer   Sermon Resources Slides for January 19, 2020 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond...

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  • Ecclesia Network National Gathering 2020 Update

    By on January 20, 2020

    01/19/2020 Testimony Christian DaPonte Ecclesia Network

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  • Open Eyes & Open Ears

    By on January 13, 2020

    01/12/2020 Psalm 29 & Matthew 3:13-17 Chris Breslin   “Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of...

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  • The Bread of Tears

    By on December 22, 2019

    12/22/2019 Psalm 80 Dave Crispell   This Sunday’s Songs Do You Hear What I Hear? by Regney/Baker Little Drummer...

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  • Songs of Hope & Joy

    By on December 16, 2019

    12/15/2019 Songs of Hope & Joy Matthew 11:2-11 Chris Breslin   “Joy builds on the past and borrows from...

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  • In the Days to Come

    By on December 2, 2019

    12/01/2019 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   “To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep,...

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  • Imaging the Invisible God (St. Macrina)

    By on November 25, 2019

    11/24/2019 Colossians 1:15-20 Chris Breslin   Macrina the Younger  (c. 330 – 19 July 379) was a nun in...

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  • Learning to Love Like Jesus Loved (St. Rich Mullins)

    By on November 18, 2019

    11/17/2019 Philippians 2:5-11 Christian DaPonte   Rich Mullins was a Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana....

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  • Crucified with Christ in Community (St. Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

    By on November 11, 2019

    11/10/2019 Galatians 2:20 Chris Breslin   Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, underground seminary-founder, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member...

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  • Praying Times (St. Ann Atwater) [Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove]

    By on November 4, 2019

    11/03/2019 Luke 18:1-8 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove   Ann Atwater was an American civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. She became an...

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  • Another Ring (5th Anniversary)

    By on October 28, 2019

    10/27/2019 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally...

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  • Peace Within Your Walls

    By on October 21, 2019

    10/20/2019 Psalm 122 Christian DaPonte   Christian DaPonte is Oak Church’s Pastoral Intern for the 2019-20 academic year from...

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  • A Home for God

    By on October 14, 2019

    10/13/2019 Psalm 132 Chris Breslin   “You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they...

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  • The Holy Everywhere and the Holy Here

    By on October 7, 2019

    10/06/2019 Psalm 48 Chris Breslin   “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”...

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  • The Hope of the Poor Will Not Die

    By on September 30, 2019

    09/29/2019 Luke 16:19-31 Chris Breslin   I say móre: the just man justices; Keeps grace: thát keeps all his...

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  • Gotta Serve Somebody

    By on September 24, 2019

    09/22/2019 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin   “he unjust steward is nothing less than the Christ-figure in this parable, a...

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  • Homecoming

    By on September 16, 2019

    09/15/2019 Luke 15 Chris Breslin   “I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where...

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  • Counting the Cost in the Kingdom

    By on September 9, 2019

    09/08/2019 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin   “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer   “Pragmatism, legalism,...

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  • [Repost] Jeremy Begbie at Oak Church

    By on September 4, 2019

    To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Duke Initiatives in Theology and Arts, we’re revisiting this sermon by Jeremy...

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  • The Kingdom of God Has Come Near

    By on September 2, 2019

    09/01/2019 Luke 10:1-20 Yucheng Bai   Yucheng Bai is a doctoral student in World Religions in the Duke University...

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  • Teach & Establish (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 26, 2019

    08/25/2019 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin   “Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,...

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  • By Faith

    By on August 19, 2019

    08/18/2019 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Chris Breslin   “How subversive, raising a liberator under Pharaoh’s roof!  She joined their efforts to...

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  • The End is Where We Start From

    By on August 12, 2019

    08/11/2019 Revelation 22 Chris Breslin   With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling  ...

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  • Here and Now

    By on August 5, 2019

    08/04/2019 Revelation 21:1-22:5 Mindy Erdmann   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room by McGhee Your...

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  • Enemies, not Rivals

    By on July 29, 2019

    07/28/2019 Revelation 20 Chris Breslin   “There are two angels with a (hu)man—one of righteousness, and the other of...

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  • Hallelujah Anyhow

    By on July 22, 2019

    07/21/2019 Revelation 19:1-10 Chris Breslin   “For us, refers to something much more like the human tendency, the...

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  • The Apocalyptic Ordinary

    By on July 20, 2019

    07/14/2019 Revelation 17:3-18 Sarah Neff   Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)   Songs for Today’s...

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  • Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes

    By on July 8, 2019

    07/07/2019 Revelation 12:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Jesus was faced with these same questions, but when he was asked to...

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  • The Art of the Interlude

    By on July 1, 2019

    06/30/2019 Revelation 10-11 Andre Franklin   Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife...

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  • Songs, Scents, & Silence

    By on June 24, 2019

    06/23/2019 Revelation 8:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   “I wanted...

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  • The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd

    By on June 17, 2019

    06/16/2019 Revelation 6-7 Chris Breslin   “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic...

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  • Gathered Around the Throne

    By on June 10, 2019

    06/09/2019 Revelation 4&5 Chris Breslin   “Christians worship with a conviction that they are in the presence of God....

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  • Identity Crisis

    By on June 3, 2019

    06/02/2019 Revelation 2 & 3 Jeremiah Dodson   “Revelation is not about the antichrist, but about the living Christ....

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  • Past, Present, & Future

    By on May 28, 2019

    05/26/2019 Revelation 1:12-20 Chris Breslin   “Christ is the center and at the center.” -Eugene Peterson   “Jesus is...

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  • Can I Get a Witness?!

    By on May 19, 2019

    05/19/2019 Revelation 1:1-11 Chris Breslin   “The imagination is our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see...

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  • A Magnifying Life

    By on May 13, 2019

    05/12/2019 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   “My mother and grandmother taught me to ignore Mother’s Day (a commercial gimmick)...

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  • What’s So Great About This Commission?

    By on May 5, 2019

    05/05/2019 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin   “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were...

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  • Scary Good News

    By on April 29, 2019

    04/28/2019 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Those who had thought they were alive now discover that what they took...

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  • Evergreen (Easter Sunday)

    By on April 22, 2019

    04/21/2019 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” -Frederick Buechner  ...

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  • Walk With Me (Good Friday)

    By on April 22, 2019

    04/19/2019 Chris Breslin   “The symbol of the cross in the church points to the God who was crucified...

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  • A House of Prayer

    By on April 15, 2019

    04/14/2019 Matthew 21:1-17 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Eternity Already

    By on April 7, 2019

    04/07/2019 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • The Unfamiliarity of the Christian Life

    By on March 31, 2019

    03/31/2019 Matthew 25:10-13 Andre Franklin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured...

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  • Everything is on the Table

    By on March 24, 2019

    03/24/2019 Matthew 22:1-14 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Insouciant Grace

    By on March 17, 2019

    03/17/2019 Matthew 20:1-16 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured...

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  • As You Forgive Those

    By on March 11, 2019

    03/10/2019 Matthew 18:15-35 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

    By on March 3, 2019

    03/03/2019 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin   “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Elvis Costello (maybe, or David...

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  • Farm Faithfulness

    By on February 25, 2019

    02/24/2019 Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40 Chris Breslin   “The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often...

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  • A Gospel Economy

    By on February 18, 2019

    02/17/2019 Luke 6:17-26 Matthew Rehnborg   “The situation of the soul in contemplation is something like the situation of...

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  • The Pains of Being Pure of Heart

    By on February 10, 2019

    02/10/2019 Isaiah 6:1-11 Chris Breslin   “Holy ground is dangerous ground. The holy is never, never something of God...

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  • Instigators of Jubilee

    By on February 4, 2019

    02/03/2019 Luke 4:21-30 John Chandler   John Chandler is the Marketing and Communications Director for Help One Now, an...

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  • Epiphany & Jubilee

    By on January 28, 2019

    01/27/2019 Luke 4:14-21 Chris Breslin   “A Sabbath is a weekly Jubilee during which the powerful are humbled and...

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  • New Year, New You…Same God

    By on January 20, 2019

    01/20/2019 Isaiah 30:1-5, 12-22 Charlene Brown   Season Resources: Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century) Living...

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  • Through Waters

    By on January 14, 2019

    01/13/2019 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Sarah Neff   “The Epiphany story that most tempts my memory is the story of...

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  • Feast of the Three Kings (with CANU)

    By on January 7, 2019

    01/06/2019 Matthew 2:1-12 Carolina Kammel & Ricardo Correa   A special collaborative Epiphany celebration with our friends from Centro...

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  • Holy Shift

    By on December 24, 2018

    12/23/2018 Luke 1:39-55 Mindy Erdmann (Bumper music:Because the Night is Longby Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   Mindy...

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  • Hope in the Wilderness

    By on December 17, 2018

    12/16/2018 Luke 3:1-6 Carolina Kammel (Bumper music:Because the Night is Longby Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   Christmas...

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  • Stories of Freedom: A Conversation on Race and Place with Natasha Sistrunk-Robinson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    By on December 14, 2018

    Our conversation took place at Oak Church on December 13, 2018. Margot Starbuck facilitated the conversation in partnership with DurhamCares(directed by...

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  • It’s the Start of the World as We’ve Never Known It

    By on December 2, 2018

    12/02/2018 Luke 21:25-36 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:Because the Night is Long by Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   “Advent...

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  • The Not-From-Around-Here King (Christ the King Sunday)

    By on November 25, 2018

    11/25/2018 John 18:33-38a Chris Breslin   “A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a...

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  • Two Sides of the Same Coin

    By on November 18, 2018

    11/18/2018 Micah 6:1-8 Stephanie Holmer   “Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me....

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  • What She Needed to Live On

    By on November 12, 2018

    11/11/2018 Mark 12:35-44 Chris Breslin   “The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what...

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  • Just the Way the World Works

    By on November 5, 2018

    11/04/2018 Luke 13:10-17 Matthew Rehnborg   “When the prophet dares to expose to the light the congregation who is...

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  • A New Life Burgeons

    By on October 29, 2018

    10/28/2018 Isaiah 60:15-22 & Revelation 21:1-5 Chris Breslin   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And...

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  • God’s (Vulnerable) Person

    By on October 22, 2018

    10/21/2018 Genesis 22:1-18 Chris Breslin   “ThroughAbraham and his family, God will bless the whole world. Shimmering like a...

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  • God’s (Vulnerable) People

    By on October 15, 2018

    10/14/2018 Genesis 22:1-18 Chris Breslin   “The church is a countercultural community of discipleship, and this community is the...

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  • Our Wicked Problem

    By on October 8, 2018

    10/07/2018 Genesis 2:25-3:7 Chris Breslin   “Genesis 3 paints the scenario that is the hinge point of history. Humanity...

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  • Introducing & Blessing New Steering Group Members & Pastoral Intern

    By on October 8, 2018

    We introduced and blessed three new members of our Steering Group: Bettejean Cramer, Carolina Kammel, and Sarah Neff. We...

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  • Created to Eat [Kendall Vanderslice]

    By on October 1, 2018

    09/30/2018 Genesis 2:4-25 Kendall Vanderslice   Kendall Vanderslice is a graduate of Wheaton College and Boston University (MLA Gastronomy). She...

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  • Re-Placing Friendships

    By on September 24, 2018

    09/23/2018 Acts 16:13-34 Chris Breslin   “It’s easy for us to see what our church or neighborhood or city...

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  • A Tale of Two Tables

    By on September 17, 2018

    09/16/2018 Acts 2:42-47 Chris Breslin   “After I gazed for a long time at Rublev’s Trinity these words spoke...

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  • Reconstructing the Gospel: an evening with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    By on September 10, 2018

    Our conversation took place at Oak Church on September 9, 2018. Tammy White Rodman (Pilgrimage Coordinator for DurhamCares) was...

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  • The Roots of Shalom

    By on September 10, 2018

    09/09/2018 Jeremiah 29:4-9 Reynolds Chapman   Reynolds Chapman is Executive Director of DurhamCares, whose mission is to mobilize Durham...

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  • Who is My Actual Neighbor?

    By on September 3, 2018

    09/02/2018 Luke 10:25-37 Chris Breslin   The missionary must be the salt which dissolves in the meat, disappears and...

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  • Prayer & Work & Presence

    By on August 27, 2018

    08/26/2018 Prayer & Work & Presence Psalm 46 Chris Breslin   “Every step an arrival.” -Eugene Peterson   “Instructions...

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  • Circle of the Church Year

    By on August 21, 2018

    08/19/2018 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Meg Hoffman   Oak Kids Website Godly Play Foundation   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Turn!...

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  • The Spirit and the Bride Say, “Come!”

    By on August 12, 2018

    08/12/2018 Revelation 22:16-21 Chris Breslin   “I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from...

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  • Hidden in Plain Sight

    By on August 6, 2018

    08/05/2018 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   “…the Holy Spirit takes the ‘givenness’ of what has happened in Christ, and...

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  • Two Laws and the Gospel [Jeff McSwain]

    By on July 23, 2018

    07/22/2018 Romans 8:1-11 Jeff & Susan McSwain Jeff & Susan are the founders of Reality Ministries, a community-based non-profit that...

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  • The Renaissance Spirit

    By on July 16, 2018

    07/15/2018 John 3:1-21 Chris Breslin   “I am a child of God, one in whom Christ dwells, and I...

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  • The Spirit, Poured Out

    By on July 11, 2018

    07/08/2018 Joel 2:28-32 & Acts 2:1-21 Meg Hoffman   Powerpoint Slides (July 8)   Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:1-19  ...

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  • Hope-filled & Peace-able, Imagine That

    By on July 1, 2018

    07/01/2018 Isaiah 11:1-10 & Jeremiah 37:1-14 Chris Breslin   “A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God...

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  • Illuminating Light: Worship & Work in the Spirit

    By on June 25, 2018

    06/24/2018 Exodus 31:1-11 Sarah Neff   “We are holy creatures living among other holy creatures in a world that...

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  • A Prayer for Our Immigrant Sisters & Brothers

    By on June 25, 2018

    Our 06/24/18 Call to Worship: Bendito eres Tú, Señor Jesucristo. Cruzaste todas las fronteras entre la divinidad y la humanidad para hacer...

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  • That Fitful, Fluent Spirit

    By on June 11, 2018

    06/10/2018 Psalm 51 Chris Breslin   Incurable and unbelieving in any truth but the truth of grieving, I saw...

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  • Fill Your Horn with Oil and Get Going

    By on June 3, 2018

    1 Samuel 16:1-13 & Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin “The strength or weakness of means is neither the spur nor...

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  • Over the Bent World Broods

    By on May 29, 2018

    05/27/2018 Genesis 1:1-2 & Genesis 2:5-9 Chris Breslin   The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It...

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  • Breathing Forgiveness

    By on May 21, 2018

    05/20/2018 John 20:19-23 Chris Breslin   “The convex (outward tilted) of the concave (inward tilted) Resurrection is mission, and...

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  • God as Our Witness

    By on May 14, 2018

    05/13/2018 1 John 5:9-13 Chris Breslin   “How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people...

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  • The Water and the Blood

    By on May 8, 2018

    05/06/2018 1 John 5:1-6 Chris Breslin   “If we ask the question, ‘Where might you expect to find the...

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  • This is How We Know

    By on April 24, 2018

    04/22/2018 1 John 3:16-24 Chris Breslin Slides from April, 2018 Scripture: John 3:16 Matthew 25:40 1 John 4:19 Romans...

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  • Ecclesia Network National Gathering Testimonies

    By on April 17, 2018

    04/15/2018 Testimony Katie DeConto, Jeremiah Dodson, Matt Hoffman, Meg Hoffman Ecclesia Network

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  • Called What We Already Are

    By on April 17, 2018

    04/15/2018 1 John 3:1-7 Chris Breslin “In the New Testament, there is an ongoing ministry of reminding.” –Bruxy Cavey...

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  • A Sensible Life

    By on April 10, 2018

    04/08/2018 1 John 1:1-2:2 Chris Breslin “The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless...

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  • Mourning into Dancing (Easter Sunday)

    By on April 3, 2018

    04/01/2018 John 11:17-44 Chris Breslin “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve...

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  • Baptismal Testimonies (Gary Davis & Matthew Fox)

    By on April 1, 2018

    Baptismal Testimonies and Liturgy Gary Davis & Matthew Fox April 1, 2018

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  • Conversion at the Cross (Good Friday)

    By on March 30, 2018

    03/30/2018 Isaiah 52:14 & 53:1-6; John 18-19 Chris Breslin “Like the lynching tree in America, the cross in the...

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  • Behold Your King

    By on March 29, 2018

    03/25/2018 Matthew 21:1-11/John 9:1-14; 35-41 Joe Longarino Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken Hosanna...

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  • On the Water, Through the Storm

    By on March 20, 2018

    03/18/2018 John 6:15-21 Chris Breslin “Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each...

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  • “Five Barley Loaves and Two Fish”

    By on March 13, 2018

    03/11/2018 John 6:5-14 Sarah Neff “It is not easy to offer the world to each other and to God....

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  • “Pick Up Your Mat & Walk!”

    By on March 6, 2018

    03/04/2018 John 5:1-15 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian...

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  • “Go. Your Son Lives!”

    By on February 26, 2018

    02/25/2018 Sermon John 4:46-54 Chris Breslin “Jesus peculiarly dramatizes the dynamics of grace: what is needed by humans is...

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  • Everything Happens for a Reason: a Conversation with Kate Bowler & Bob Crawford

    By on February 26, 2018

    An archived unedited version of The Road to Now (RTN Theology #3) episode. Pastor Chris Breslin recently invited Bob...

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  • A Vintage Richer for the Keeping

    By on February 19, 2018

    02/18/2018 John 2:1-11 Chris Breslin Here’s an epiphany to have and hold, A truth that you can taste upon...

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  • Listen Up! (Transfiguration Sunday)

    By on February 12, 2018

    02/11/2018 Sermon Mark 9:2-13 Chris Breslin “Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one in the world who is...

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  • The Kingdom of God Comes Home (Epiphany 5)

    By on February 6, 2018

    02/04/2018 Mark 1:29-39 Matt Hoffman Sermon Resources: Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard The Spirit of the Disciplines:...

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  • We Should All Be Wearing Crash Helmets (Epiphany 4)

    By on January 29, 2018

    01/28/2018 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin “…carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all...

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  • Hooked (Epiphany 3)

    By on January 22, 2018

    01/21/2018 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 & Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin “The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice, it’s...

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  • Nazareth?! (Epiphany 2)

    By on January 17, 2018

    01/14/2018 John 1:43-51 Chris Breslin “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” –Wendell...

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  • The Voice of the Lord (Epiphany 1)

    By on January 8, 2018

    01/07/2018 Psalm 29 & Mark 1:4-11 Chris Breslin “This is the Epiphany’s first lesson about joy: to rejoice in...

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  • Advent 4 – Directions For Singing

    By on December 31, 2017

    12/24/17 Psalm 96 Chris Breslin “Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were...

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  • Advent 3: Lying at Rest & Letting the Pieces Fly

    By on December 19, 2017

    12/17/2017 Psalm 126 & Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Chris Breslin “And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth...

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  • Advent 2: Landscaping for Peace (and Kissing Babies)

    By on December 12, 2017

    12/10/2017 Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2; 8-13 Sarah Neff “The peace between God and man and the salvation which comes...

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  • Advent 1: Seeing God’s Face

    By on December 9, 2017

    12/03/2017 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Isaiah 64:1-9 Curt Lowndes Rev. Curt Lowndes is the Associate Pastor of the Gathering Church....

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  • Get Your Hopes Up

    By on November 27, 2017

    11/26/2017 Romans 15:3-11 Chris Breslin   “Advent is an invitation to plunge into the deep, dark waters of our...

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  • The Practice of Welcoming Children

    By on November 20, 2017

    11/19/2017 Mark 9:36-37; 10:13-16 Meg Hoffman   ‘Welcome’, the word is always on your lips, Each welcome warms another...

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  • Simply Sit Among the Shards

    By on November 15, 2017

    11/12/2017 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin “When we allow ourselves to be disarmed, we become both vulnerable and strong. The...

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  • Just as Long as I am in this World…

    By on November 7, 2017

    11/05/2017 John 9:1-17 Chris Breslin “To proclaim the Gospel is to proclaim that it is at last possible to...

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  • Praying in the [King]dom

    By on November 1, 2017

    10/29/17 Matthew 6:1-13 Kate Hamman   “The Lord’s Prayer, along with the Eucharist, forms the liturgical equivalent to what...

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  • The Hospitality of God [Norman Wirzba]

    By on October 23, 2017

    10/22/2017 Luke 14:12-24 Norman Wirzba Dr. Norman Wirzba was raised on a farm in Southern Alberta, and went on...

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  • Our Gifts Combined: the Fullness of Christ in Our Midst

    By on October 17, 2017

    10/15/2017 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in...

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  • Be Reconciled: Peace-making as Ecology, Geology, & Hydrology

    By on October 14, 2017

    10/01/2017 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 Sarah Neff “When God sets out to embrace the enemy, the result is the cross.”...

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  • Presence Takes Practice (& vice versa)

    By on October 2, 2017

    10/1/17 Psalm 46 Chris Breslin “Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything.” –Gordon Hempton...

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  • The Floor & the Ceiling

    By on September 25, 2017

    09/24/2017 Philippians 4:10-23 Chris Breslin “’This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be.’ That certainly...

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  • Incarcerated Joy

    By on September 18, 2017

    09/17/2017 Acts 16:16-28 Dewey Williams Rev. Dewey Williams is a minister at Mt. Level Missionary Baptist Church in Durham,...

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  • The Lord is Near!

    By on September 11, 2017

    09/10/2017 Philippians 4:1-9 “Thanksgiving means giving God the glory in everything, making room for him, casting our care on...

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  • Third Culture Kids

    By on September 5, 2017

    09/03/2017 Philippians 3:17-21 Chris Breslin Testimony by Bryan Diver & Blake “Slowly, I started to enter more fully into...

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  • Humility, Even Unto Death

    By on August 28, 2017

    8/27/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian...

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  • Renouncing Our Righteousness

    By on August 23, 2017

    08/20/2017 Philippians 3:1-16 Chris Breslin “Faith in its decisive act is the collapse of every effort of our own...

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  • REI Groundwater Testimony

    By on August 23, 2017

    8/20/2017 Stephanie Holmer, Joe Longarino, Nate Hood, Erin Victor, Elizabeth Christenson & Chris Breslin

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  • A Family on Mission

    By on August 15, 2017

    08/13/2017 Philippians 2:19-30 Chris Breslin A Congregational Prayer for Churches after Charlottesville by Rich Villodas (Missio Alliance) “Hitherto I...

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  • Fear and Trembling…and Joy?!

    By on August 9, 2017

    8/6/2017 Philippians 2:12-18 Chris Breslin   “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though...

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  • Everything that Converges Must Kneel

    By on July 31, 2017

    07/30/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Chris Breslin “We can increasingly resemble Christ in character and in power by following him in...

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  • The Impeded Stream Sings

    By on July 25, 2017

    07/23/2017 Philippians 1:27-30 Chris Breslin It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have...

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  • The Gospel in Chains? [Richard B. Hays]

    By on July 18, 2017

    07/16/2017 Philippians 1:12-26 Dr. Richard B. Hays   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Leave it There by Tindley Rejoice...

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  • Of Slaves & Saints…

    By on July 10, 2017

    07/09/2017 Philippians 1:1-11 Chris Breslin “All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer...

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  • Do What?!

    By on July 3, 2017

    07/02/2017 Joshua 6:1-20 Marty Childers (Director of Mission, Yates Baptist Association)   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take Us,...

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  • A Little Lower; Just Right

    By on June 27, 2017

    06/25/2017 Psalm 8 Chris Breslin “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” -Frederick...

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  • “and the Lord for the body?”

    By on June 23, 2017

    06/18/2017 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Joe Longarino “In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much...

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  • Here We Go

    By on June 12, 2017

    06/11/2017 Matthew 28:16-20 Matt Hoffman Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take to the World by Tate/Webb I Saw the...

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  • Ascension Ora et Labora

    By on May 31, 2017

    05/28/2017 John 17:1-11 Chris Breslin “The glory of God is humanity fully alive.” –Irenaeus “To embrace the ascension is...

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  • Believe into God, Believe into Me Also

    By on May 22, 2017

    5/21/17 John 14:1-21 Chris Breslin “These chapters have often rightly been seen as among the most precious and intimate...

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  • Go There

    By on May 17, 2017

    05/14/2017 Sermon John 4:1-30, 39-43 Stephanie Holmer Scripture: 2 Kings 17 Ezra 4 Luke 9:51-56 John 1:32 Songs for...

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  • 2017 Ecclesia Network National Gathering & Missio Alliance Reflection

    By on May 9, 2017

    Rachel Breslin, Stephanie Holmer, Sarah Neff, & Nate Hood reflect about their week in Alexandria, VA at the Ecclesia...

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  • He Calls His Own Sheep by Name & Leads Them Out 

    By on May 9, 2017

    05/07/2017 John 10:1-15 Chris Breslin Scripture: Ezekiel 34 John 1:4 John 3:16 John 11:25 John 17:3 John 20:31 Psalm...

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  • These Things

    By on May 3, 2017

    04/30/2017 Sermon Luke 24:13-35 Jeremiah Dodson   “We do not gain a grasp of Scripture’s significance solely through lectures...

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  • Still Easter

    By on April 25, 2017

    04/23/2017 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin   “The church exists for mission as a fire exists by burning.” –Emil Bruner...

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  • Easter: Why Are You Weeping? Who Are You Looking For?

    By on April 19, 2017

    John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin “The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all...

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  • Good Friday 2017: “Save Yourself!”

    By on April 17, 2017

    04/14/2017 Luke 23:35-43 Mark Acuff Call to Worship: Lamentations 3:40-57 Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Lamb of God by...

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  • A Weeping Messiah & A Hidden Peace

    By on April 11, 2017

    04/09/2017 Luke 19:28-44 Chris Breslin “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve...

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  • Silent God, Dissonant Prayer

    By on April 5, 2017

    04/02/2017 Lamentations 5 Sarah Neff “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith...

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  • Calamities & Good Things

    By on March 26, 2017

    03/26/17 Lamentations 3 Meg Hoffman “Lament allows for the fullness of emotions to be expressed. Worship should not operate...

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  • Sharing Our Words & Wounds

    By on March 19, 2017

    03/19/2017 Lamentations 4:17-22 Chris Breslin “What house is it to which the Bible is the door? What sort of...

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  • The Fast I Choose

    By on March 14, 2017

    03/12/2017 Lamentations 2:6-9, 14 Chris Breslin There is no consolation in the thought of God, he said, slamming another...

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  • Freedom Through Awareness & Repentance [Christena Cleveland]

    By on March 7, 2017

    03/05/17 Psalm 32:1-7 Dr. Christena Cleveland Dr. Christena Cleveland is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership, Spirituality,...

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  • Lent’s Third Effect

    By on February 28, 2017

    Lamentations 1 2/26/17 Chris Breslin “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith...

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  • Beautiful Feet & Where to Find Them

    By on February 21, 2017

    02/19/2017 Acts 16:16-36 Sarah Neff “For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest.” –Rev. Dr....

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  • Preach the Gospel at All Times

    By on February 14, 2017

    02/12/2017 Acts 3:1-16 Chris Breslin   “Preach the gospel at all times, when necessary use words.” –St. Francis of...

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  • Restorying Our Lives

    By on February 8, 2017

    2/5/17 Acts 17:16-34 Chris Breslin   “Be missionaries cleverly disguised as good neighbors.” –J.R. Briggs   “Christ plays in...

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  • Hospitality: A People Blessed by the Lord

    By on January 31, 2017

    01/29/2017 Isaiah 61:5-11 Chris Breslin   “For most of the church’s history, faithful believers located their acts of hospitality...

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  • Healed People, Healed City

    By on January 24, 2017

    01/22/2017 Isaiah 61:1-6 Sarah Neff   “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”...

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  • Ordinary Hope

    By on January 18, 2017

    01/15/2017 Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin   “The calling of a prophet is to bring the world into divine focus.”...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Mary

    By on January 18, 2017

    12/24/16 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   “My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve, Do not be ashamed, do not grieve....

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  • An Advent Adventure: Bathsheba

    By on December 21, 2016

    12/18/2016 1 Kings 1:11-31 Chris Breslin   Scripture John 1 Matthew 1 Hebrews 4:15     This Sunday’s Songs...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Ruth

    By on December 14, 2016

    12/11/2016 Ruth 4:5-22 Sarah Neff   This Sunday’s Songs Singing in the Land arr. by Mitchell/Littleton Higher Ground by...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Rahab

    By on December 6, 2016

    12/04/2016 Joshua 2:4-21 Chris Breslin   “The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness, not a...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Tamar

    By on November 29, 2016

    11/27/2016 Genesis 38:11b-26a Chris Breslin   “When God’s righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God’s action of...

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  • “Thine Is The Kingdom,” by Malcolm Guite

    By on November 29, 2016

    The kingdom and the power and the glory, The very things we all want for ourselves! We want to...

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  • The Power and Glory of the Kingdom [Richella Parham]

    By on November 29, 2016

    11/20/2016 Ephesians 3:14-21 Richella Parham     The kingdom and the power and the glory, The very things we...

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  • Lead Us, Deliver Us

    By on November 14, 2016

    11/13/2016 Luke 4:1-15 Chris Breslin     God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks...

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  • Forgive as We Forgive

    By on November 10, 2016

    11/06/2016 Acts 9:1-21 Joey Morningstar     Repentance, to be sure, but of a species far less likely to...

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  • “On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus” by Denise Levertov

    By on October 31, 2016

    It is for all ‘literalists of the imagination,’ poets or not, that miracle is possible, possible and essential. Are...

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  • Give Us the Bread We Need for Today

    By on October 31, 2016

      10/30/2016 Isaiah 55 Chris Breslin (with artists and creatives from the Communion Arts Project: Alexandra Harper, Jessina Leonard,...

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  • “Hidden City” by Scott Cairns

    By on October 25, 2016

      And now I think Jerusalem abides untouched, the temple yet intact, its every cornerstone in place, its vault...

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  • On Earth as it is in Heaven

    By on October 25, 2016

    10/23/2016 Revelation 21:1-7 Chris Breslin (with DurhamCares’ Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope Participants: Stephanie Holmer, Sabrina Bowyer, Gary Davis,...

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  • “The Bright Field” by R.S. Thomas

    By on October 18, 2016

    I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way...

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  • Hallowed

    By on October 18, 2016

    10/16/2016 Exodus 3:1-14 Sarah Neff     I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field...

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  • “Our Father” by Malcolm Guite

    By on October 13, 2016

    I heard him call you his beloved son And saw his Spirit lighten like a dove, I thought his...

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  • Our Father Who Is in Heaven

    By on October 13, 2016

    10/9/2016 Matthew 6:1-14 Chris Breslin     I heard him call you his beloved son And saw his Spirit...

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  • To Call & to be Called

    By on October 5, 2016

    10/02/2016 Genesis 4:1-12 Chris Breslin   “If a is called to be a street sweeper, ...

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  • Introducing 2016-17 Pastoral Intern: Sarah Neff

    By on September 30, 2016

    Sarah is excited to be this year’s intern from Duke Divinity School where she is a second year dual MDiv/MSW student....

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  • Called to a Place: Living as Blues Singers, Resident Aliens, & the Creative Minority

    By on September 28, 2016

    9/25/2016 Chris Breslin Jeremiah 29:4-14   “This is kind of how blues began — out of feeling misused, mistreated....

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  • Making Good: Biblical Principles of Creative Work

    By on September 20, 2016

    9/18/2016 Matthew 25:14-30 Alexandra Harper Alexandra Harper is the Creative Director and Founder of Culture Care RDU. A Ministry...

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  • Called to Work: Purpose, Perseverance, Presence

    By on September 14, 2016

    9/11/16 Gen 1:26-28, 2:15, 3:17-19 & Rev 21:1-5, 22:26, 22:1-5 Chris Breslin   Scripture 1 Peter 5:7 John 20:19-31...

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  • God Gets Mad Sometimes (and it’s worth writing a song about)

    By on September 7, 2016

    9/4/2016 2 Samuel 22:1-31 Chris Breslin   “The single most characteristic thing about David is God. David believed in...

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  • At the Gate of Our Hearts

    By on August 31, 2016

    8/28/16 2 Samuel 14:25-26; 15:7-14 Rev. Matt Orth   Matt Orth lives in NC with his wife, his two...

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  • Take Us, O Lord. Break Us, O Lord.

    By on August 22, 2016

    8/21/16 2 Samuel 11:1-17; 12:1-7 Chris Breslin   “…to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost...

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  • Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?

    By on August 15, 2016

    8/14/16 2 Samuel 9 Suvya Carroll & Greg Little “Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when...

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  • Dancing, Disappointment & the Second Person God

    By on August 9, 2016

    8/7/14 2 Samuel 7:18-29 Chris Breslin   “Consider that the first time someone spoke of God in the third...

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  • A Weak King

    By on August 3, 2016

    7/31/16 2 Samuel 3:17-39 Chris Breslin   “True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including...

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  • Sad, Sad Song

    By on July 27, 2016

    7/24/16 2 Samuel 2:17-27 Chris Breslin   “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,...

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  • Unreasonable Generosity

    By on July 27, 2016

    7/17/16 1 Samuel 30 Stephanie Holmer   Scripture Psalm 22 Psalm 23 1 Samuel 22:2 MSG   This Sunday’s...

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  • A Frayed Bundle of the Living

    By on July 13, 2016

    1 Samuel 25:23-35 Chris Breslin   “Abigail on her knees, put David back on his knees.” –Eugene Peterson  ...

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  • Warning: Wilderness Ahead

    By on July 6, 2016

    7/2/16 1 Samuel 24:1-16, 22 Dave Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham native...

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  • Bound

    By on June 28, 2016

    6/26/16 1 Samuel 18:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Friendship…is born at the moment when one says to another “What!...

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  • How the Mighty Has Fallen

    By on June 23, 2016

    6/19/16 1 Samuel 17:1-51 Chris Breslin “Darkness can’t drive out darkness, only light can do that.” –Rev. Dr. Martin...

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  • Better Call David

    By on June 16, 2016

    6/12/16 1 Samuel 16:14-23 Chris Breslin “A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do...

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  • Sandcastles & Paper Tigers

    By on June 6, 2016

    6/5/2016 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Chris Breslin Scripture 1 Samuel 2:10 Luke 15:11-32 Matthew 26:39 1 Samuel 10:6 Philippians 3:7-8...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Creation and the Coming King

    By on May 31, 2016

    5/29/2016 Austin Wilson Psalm 96 “God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.” –W.H. Auden...

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  • The God of Peace (Trinity Sunday)

    By on May 25, 2016

    5/22/2016 Chris Breslin 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 “An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying...

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  • The Friendly Ghost (Pentecost)

    By on May 16, 2016

    5/15/2016 Chris Breslin John 14:15-31 “The Spirit is the shy member of the Trinity. He always points to Jesus.”...

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  • The Gift-giving King (Ascension)

    By on May 9, 2016

    5/8/2016 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:7-13 “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in...

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  • Psalm Sunday: How to Live in a Cave & How Not to Have to

    By on May 2, 2016

    5/1/2016 Matt Hoffman Psalm 70 The aim of every and indeed the perfection of his heart amounts to this...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Riffing on God’s Love

    By on April 25, 2016

    4/24/2016 Joey Morningstar Psalm 136 Resonant Witness ed. Jeremy Begbie & Steven Guthrie Resounding Truth by Jeremy Begbie Creator...

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  • Walk this Way: Resurrection, Scripture and Eating with Jesus

    By on April 11, 2016

    4/10/16 Mike Boone Luke 24:13-35 “You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.” -Craig Finn from...

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  • Can These Bones Live?

    By on April 5, 2016

    4/3/16 Chris Breslin Mark 16:1-8 “We interpret Scripture rightly only when we read it in light of the resurrection,...

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  • The Once & Future Gardener

    By on March 28, 2016

    3/27/16 Chris Breslin John 20:1-18   “Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward...

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  • Blessings On The Coming Kingdom

    By on March 21, 2016

    3/20/16 Chris Breslin Mark 11:1-11   The Donkey G.K. Chesterton   When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew...

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  • Looking to the Kingdom

    By on March 14, 2016

    3/13/16 Joe Longarino Mark 13:1-27   The Coming R.S. Thomas And God held in his hand A small globe. Look...

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  • Ecclesia Network National Gathering Reflection (Rachel Breslin & Meg Hoffman)

    By on March 14, 2016

    3/13/16 Rachel Breslin & Meg Hoffman reflect about their week in Newark, DE at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering.

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  • (Not) Far From God’s Kingdom

    By on March 8, 2016

    3/6/16 Chris Breslin Mark 12:28-44   Flickering Mind Denise Levertov   Lord, not you, it is I who am...

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  • To God What is God’s

    By on March 1, 2016

    2/28/16 Joey Morningstar Mark 12:13-17   From Thee to Thee Solomon Ibn Gabirol   When all within is dark,...

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  • Teacher, I Want To See

    By on February 22, 2016

    2/21/16 Chris Breslin Mark 10:32-52 Lightenings (xii) Seamus Heaney   And lightening? One meaning of that Beyond the usual...

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  • The Impossible Good News

    By on February 15, 2016

    2/14/16 Chris Breslin Mark 10:17-31 The Place Where We Are Right by Yehuda Amichai   From the place where...

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  • Sabbath : Feasting

    By on February 9, 2016

    2/7/16 Chris Breslin Exodus 16 “Sabbath” by Amy Imbody Sabbath: You make demands upon my heart, upon my hands,...

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  • Sabbath: Embracing

    By on February 1, 2016

    1/31/16 Joey Morningstar Ezekiel 20:10-17   “Embrace” by Gregory Orr With their embrace They chose Each other, Which is...

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  • Sabbath: Resting [J.R. Briggs]

    By on January 18, 2016

    1/17/16 JR Briggs Exodus 20:1-17,Hebrews 4:1,6-9 J.R. Briggs of Ecclesia Network & Renew Community J.R. Briggs serves as Cultural...

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  • Sabbath: Ceasing

    By on January 11, 2016

    1/10/16 Chris Breslin Genesis 2:1-4, Exodus 5 Testimony by Nate Hood (27:50)   “God rested! God enjoyed a work...

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  • A New Year’s Rest-olution

    By on January 5, 2016

    1/3/16 Chris Breslin Psalm 23 “It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the...

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  • Praying Twice : O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Christmas Eve)

    By on January 5, 2016

    12/24/15 Chris Breslin Luke 2 “Love achieves its creativity by being perceptive.” –Oliver O’Donovan   Advent Resources Light Upon...

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  • Praying Twice: Do You Hear What I Hear?

    By on December 21, 2015

    12/20/15 Joey Morningstar Psalm 29 Noise. It radiates from Tobacco Plus, the busstop and the 5-stop sign free for...

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  • Praying Twice: Joy To The World

    By on December 14, 2015

    12/13/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 98, Luke 2:10-11 “The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger...

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  • Praying Twice: Go Tell It On The Mountain

    By on December 7, 2015

    12/6/15 Chris Breslin Luke 2:8-20 Go Tell it on the Mountain by Jane Schroeder (First Things)   Advent Resources...

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  • Praying Twice: O Come Emmanuel

    By on November 30, 2015

    11/29/15 Chris Breslin Isaiah 11:29 “He who sings, prays twice.” –Saint Augustine “To listen seriously to music and to...

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  • The Risk & Reward of The Kingdom

    By on November 27, 2015

    “God gives so that we can exist and flourish, but not only for that, God gives so that we...

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  • The Kingdom Is Like…A Well-Built House

    By on November 16, 2015

    11/15/15 Chris Breslin Luke 6:46-49   “To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.”...

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  • The Kingdom Is Like…Good Soil

    By on November 12, 2015

    11/8/15 Matt Tintera Mark 4:1-20 “There is an entire ecosystem in a handful of soil: bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes,...

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  • God’s Kingdom is for His Kids (The Kingdom is Like… )

    By on November 2, 2015

    11/1/15 Chris Breslin Luke 18:1-17 “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.” –St. Teresa of...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…the Biggest, Tackiest Party Yet Thrown

    By on October 27, 2015

    10/25/15 Chris Breslin Luke 15:1-32 “Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…a Treasure, a Pearl

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    9/27/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:44-52 “What do we really believe? I mean, believe in such a way that our...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…a Mustard Seed

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  • Psalm Sunday: God-craft on Exhibit

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  • Psalm Sunday: Never Shaken, Lasting Forever

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  • Dress You Up In My Love

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  • Home Economics

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  • Vacation Bible School Reflection

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  • Walk In The Way Of Love

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  • No Longer

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  • The One and the Many

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    7/26/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:1-16 Sermon Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in...

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  • Knowing The Love Of Jesus

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    7/19/15 Joey Morningstar Ephesians 3:14-21 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Colossians, Philemon & Ephesians (NICNT Commentary)...

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  • Square Halo Testimony : Will Hammond

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  • God’s Open Secret

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  • Square Halo Testimony : Jay Pendrak

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  • Sledgehammer Christ; Peace Reimagined

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    7/5/15 Mike Boone Ephesians 2:11-22 Rev. Michael Boone The Rev. Michael Boone is an ordained priest in the Anglican...

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  • Square Halo Testimony : Gary Davis

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  • Gracecraft

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  • Square Halo Testimony : Sean & Britney Soderman

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  • Growing Further Up & Further In

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    6/21/15 Dave Crispell Ephesians 1:15-23 Rev. David Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham...

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  • A Lament for Mother Emanuel

    By on June 24, 2015

    6/21/15 As a community, we linked with hundreds of other church communities around the country to share in onechurchliturgy.com...

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  • #Blessed

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  • Father & Children

    By on June 10, 2015

    5/31/15 Chris Breslin Romans 8:12-17 Sermon Notes “God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn’t just love. God is...

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  • Pentecost

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    5/24/15 Chris Breslin Acts 2:1-21 “Christians are a polyphonic people.” –Jeremy Begbie   “The thing we would remember from...

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  • Presence = Absence = Presence

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    5/17/15 Chris Breslin Luke 24:44-53 “His ascent to heaven, like his ascent to the cross, is a journey undertaken...

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  • Psalm Sunday: 139

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    5/10/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 139   “We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses...

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