2008 Sermons
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January 6, 2008
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Star Followers
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January 13, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod,
Associate Pastor
The Water of Life
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January 13, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Water Works
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January 20, 2008
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
The Servants’ Song
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January 20, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
From Above and from Below
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January 27, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Negotiating Loyalties
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January 27, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Found—Called
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February 3, 2008
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
To Make the World Better
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February 3, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Martha Langford, Pastoral Resident
Moments on a Mountain
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February 10, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Show Me the Way
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February 10, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Betrayed
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February 10, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Show Me the Way
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February 17, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Hear Me Now and Believe Me Later
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February 24, 2008
Dana Ferguson
Executive Associate Pastor
Giving Up
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March 2, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Disappointed
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March 9, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Mocked
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March 9, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Mortal, Can These Bones Live?
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March 16, 2008
Palm Sunday
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Crucified
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March 23, 2008
Easter sunrise service
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Ending for the Sake of Beginning
March 23, 2008
Easter Sunday
John M. Buchanan Pastor
Fear and Great Joy
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March 23, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
Come Up Higher
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March 30, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Supposing Him to Be the Gardener
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March 30, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Mocked
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April 6, 2008
Dana Ferguson
Executive Associate Pastor
Can I Get a Witness?
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April 6, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
The Eyes of the Heart
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April 13, 2008
Dana Ferguson
Executive Associate Pastor
The Gate and the Keeper
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April 20, 2008
Dana Ferguson
Executive Associate Pastor
Faith for the Future
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April 20, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The Soul Bowl
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April 27, 2008
8:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
God by Any Other Name
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April 27, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
Groping for God
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May 4, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
That Question about Predestination
May 4, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Happiness is Doing What You Are Supposed to Do
May 4, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Lift Up a Song
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May 11, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Listen
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May 18, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
What Are People For?
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May 25, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Where Is Your Treasure?
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May 25, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Like a Child at Home
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June 1, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Martha Langford, Pastoral Resident
Grace In Motion
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June 1, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Astonished
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June 1, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Vespers Meditation
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June 8, 2008
8:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
I Am Not a Christian
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June 8, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Cynthia M. Campbell
President, McCormick Theological Seminary
You Won’t Know If You Don’t Go
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June 15, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
No Bounds
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June 22, 2008
Donna Gray
Minister for Children, and Families
Hannah Ruth, Child of the God Who Is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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June 29, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
A Cup of Cold Water
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July 6, 2008
John M. Buchanan
Pastor
The First Freedom
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July 6, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
There Is No "I" in Community
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July 13, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Elizabeth A. Andrews, Parish Associate
Factions or Focus
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July 13, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
All in the Family
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July 20, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
To Labor and Wait
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July 20, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Earth’s Crammed with Heaven
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July 20, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
To Labor and to Wait
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July 27, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Right and Wrong
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August 3, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
When God Challenges Us
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August 10, 2008
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Oh Oh, It’s (Not) Magic
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August 17, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Brothers
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August 17, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor
The Trajectory of Salvation
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August 24, 2008
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Five Remarkable Women, the Baby Who Survived, and the Will of God
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August 31, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
A God Named . . .
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September 7, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Beginnings
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September 7, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor
The School of Love
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September 14, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Elizabeth Andrews, Parish Associate
Factions or Focus
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September 14, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor
Radical Empathy
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September 21, 2008
8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Good Work to Be Done
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September 21, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Bread for the Journey
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September 28, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
You Only Have What You Give
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October 5, 2008
8:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
The Dagger and the Cross
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October 5, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
God Wants a Full House
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October 12, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Deborah Kapp
Professor, Urban Ministry McCormick Seminary
Hunger
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October 12, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Happy Talk
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October 19, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Do Not Worry
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October 19, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
A Promise Written into Creation
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October 26, 2008
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
The Reforming Impulse
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October 26, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
The Greatest Commandment
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November 2, 2008
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
The Work of Our Hands
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November 9, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
In Charge
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November 9, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
The Foolish and the Wise
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November 16, 2008
8:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Beyond Bailout
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November 16, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
The Least of These
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November 23, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
To Feed with Justice
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November 23, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Saying Grace
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November 27, 2008
Thanksgiving Day
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The One Who Gives Thanks
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November 30, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Associate Pastor
Advent Discipline
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November 30, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
What Time Is It?
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December 7, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Saying Grace
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December 7, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Don’t Make Me Come Down There
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December 7, 2008
6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
What Are We Waiting For?
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December 14, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Testifying to the Light
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December 14, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Home
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December 21, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Mission: Possible
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December 21, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
Where Is God in this Mess?
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December 24, 2008
6:00 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Telling the Story
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December 24, 2008
8:30 and 11:00 p.m.
John M. Buchanan, Pastor
A Christmas Eve Sermon
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December 25, 2008
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
The Light of the World
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December 28, 2008
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Hard Times
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December 28, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Let Nothing You Dismay
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December 31, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Singing a New Song
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