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posted on December 30, 2018 by

Blueprint for the World

Father Jeff Paul talks about God’s blueprint for humanity, sandwiched between this prayer from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro.

Lord, what you call compassion, others call weakness. What you call conviction, others call dissidence. What you call love, others call mixing with sinners. We pray that we too might be found weak, dissident, and in bad company, especially if it means we are closer to you. Amen.

You can read the scripture by clicking on John 1:1-18 or listen to the gospel in our recording below.  Click on the white triangle in the black bar-shaped player below to listen to the scripture and sermon now or click on the link labeled: “Download” below the player to save an audio mp3 file for listening later. (Sorry for the buzzing, we have audio level problems this week.)

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posted on March 4, 2018 by

Freedom Was the First Story

Father Jeff Paul talks about the bologna named I-m-p-e-r-i-a-l  P-o-w-e-r. And the bologna of a rule making God that weaponizes the 10 Commandments. He lifts up God incarnate in a world that is a place of love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness and grace.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. – Fredrick Douglas

You can read the scripture by clicking on the gospel reading reference: John 2:13-22 or listen to it in our recording below. The Hebrew scriptures can be read by clicking on the scripture reference: Exodus 20:1-17. Click on the white triangle in the black bar-shaped player below to listen to the scripture and sermon now or click on the link labeled: Download below the player to save an audio mp3 file for listening later.

 

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posted on September 3, 2017 by

It’s An Inside Job

Father Jeff urges us to give up the desire for an external fix to inside problems. The process of being made whole (“being saved” in the scripture) is an inside job.  Listen to Father Jeff pass along Jesus invitation to live a life that witnesses to a different way to spiritual healing and wholeness other than by external force or self-righteous martyrdom.

You can read the scripture by clicking: Matthew 16:21-26 or listen to the reading in our recording below.  Click on the white triangle in the black bar-shaped player below to listen to the scripture and sermon now or click on the link labeled: Download below the player to save an audio mp3 file for listening later.

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