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The Rev. Anne Robertson
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Anne Robertson: The Real Question of Job

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

20th Sunday after Pentecost - Year B

October 07, 2018

The Rev. Anne Robertson (UMC)

 

In this story, Job is not, shall we say, winning. In chapter one he loses all his material wealth. His servants are killed by invaders; his livestock are killed by fire, and a tornado knocks down the home of his eldest son, killing all of his children. That's one terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

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The Rev. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker
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Noel Schoonmaker: Faith That Works

James 2:14-17

16th Sunday after Pentecost - Year B

September 09, 2018

The Rev. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker (CBF)

 

What good is faith without works? What good is doctrine without deeds? What good is Christian belief without Christian behavior? None at all, says James, none at all. He isn't just questioning the usefulness of faith without works; he's questioning the validity of it. "Can this sort of faith save you?" he asks. The implied answer is no. James strikingly suggests that faith without works is not saving faith.

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September 02, 2018

Noel Schoonmaker: Doers of the Word

The Rev. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker (CBF)

The Rev. Dr. Noel Schoonmaker points out in his sermon on James 1 that we are not Christians because we hear the word of God, or mentally affirm it’s true, but because we believe in Jesus Christ, who was the Word of God himself. And that Word of God become flesh in Christ healed the sick, touched the outcast, cuddled children, and overturned temple furniture.
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Kimberleigh Buchanan: Healing Faith

The Rev. Dr. Kimberleigh Buchanan (UCC)

Dr. Kim Buchanan helps us find ourselves in the difficult and potentially hopeless situation the woman suffering from hemorrhages was in when she came to Jesus with a desperate faith. When Jesus became aware that healing power had gone out from him and asked who touched him, maybe his question wasn’t for information but was an invitation to the woman to testify about her healing, and about her own faith which made that healing possible.
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December 17, 2017

Michael Brown: The Hard Work of Making Life Right

The Rev. Dr. Michael Brown (other)

In his sermon for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, Dr. Michael Brown says Isaiah speaks to the Israelites who had returned home after 70 years in Babylonian captivity, and it was worse than they expected. It was a mess. It takes hard work to make things right again, in order to make home feel like home.
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August 06, 2017

Barbara Lundblad: Who Will Feed Them? You.

The Rev. Dr. Barbara K. Lundblad (ELCA)

In the second of a two-part update to the Day1 Faith & Global Hunger series, Barbara Lundblad says the feeding of the 5,000 is a powerful story in a number of ways. The disciples offered a thoughtful, even compassionate idea for making sure all the people had something to eat. But Jesus had another idea.
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July 30, 2017

David Beckmann: How God Can Use Us to End Hunger

The Rev. David Beckmann (ELCA)

In the first of a two-part update to the Day1 Faith & Global Hunger series, David Beckmann says God uses little things to do big things. And so it is possible to end hunger in our country and around the world. But the church must get to work.
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October 16, 2016

Bishop Larry Goodpaster: Unleashing the Power of Prayer

The Rev. Dr. Larry Goodpaster (UMC)

Bishop Larry Goodpaster offers three thoughts to take from Jesus' parable in Luke 18 to help us unleash the power of prayer for living faithfully: First, prayer is believing that God will act. Second, we must be persistent in our praying. And third, we must trust that the power of love and compassion, of God’s justice and mercy, will ultimately prevail.
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October 02, 2016

Ginger Gaines-Cirelli: Increase Our Faith

The Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli (UMC)

Ginger Gaines-Cirelli says Jesus' response to the disciples' cry for an increase in faith is to tell them about how effective faith even the size of a mustard seed can be. But even this small bit of real faith involves trust in God, and so is effectual only as long as it remains connected to the source of power--God.
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August 14, 2016

Beth Birkholz: Surrounded by Superheroes

The Rev. Beth Birkholz (ELCA)

Pastor Beth Birkholz reviews the saints of the Bible recounted in Hebrews 11-12, who surround us like a cloud of witnesses, particularly Rahab and her Grandma Edna, who encourage us when we run the race of faith.