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Jun6Sun
God’s family is queer!
Celebrating a decade of LGBTQ2SIA+ inclusion in the ELCIC June 6, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
Not to say that the traditional nuclear family isn’t good,
but there shouldn’t be a hierarchy,
but an equality amongst different forms of family.
All kinds of family have their good, their bad and their ugly.
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May23Sun
The Spirit breathes life into our dry pandemic bones
Pentecost Sunday 2021 May 23, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
Perhaps we can imagine ourselves today like the exiled people of Judah and Jerusalem,
as the pandemic dry bones.
We are dried up, sick and tired of these restrictions,
these fears of this tiny virus spreading, locked down and fed up.
Our bones are tired, and parched.
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May16Sun
What Trees Tell Us about the Interconnectedness of God’s Creation
May 16, 2021 by Carey Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Carey
Come away with me into this sermon time.
Whenever I start to write a sermon it’s like going to the well with a bucket. I’ve been to the well before to draw living water, but the bucket needs to refilled often. It’s certain that since the last time I preach on a text the world has changed, and I have changed. With...
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May9Sun
Tackling the abuse of women, for love’s sake
A sermon on love for Mother's Day-Easter 6 May 9, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
The Church’s traditional focus on the subordination of women,
as well as its insistence on male power and privilege,
and its perversion of Christian ideals of love,
Means that the Church is behind in addressing issues of abuse against women.
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May2Sun
Passing God’s Love Forward
A sermon on 1 John 4 May 2, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
So beloved, since God loved us so much,
we also ought to love one another,
In word and deed.
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Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Easter
Psalm 23, 1 John 3, John 10:11-18
The narratives of faith we hear on Good Shepherding Sunday speak to us of being known, being called, and being gathered into one. We are given a glimpse that life as God intends - means - that those who don’t experience belonging, are meant to find...
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Apr18Sun
Jesus Revealed... the body matters
A sermon for Easter 3 April 18, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-Helmer- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
In the Creeds, we don’t say, that we believe in the resurrection of the soul,
We say, we believe in the resurrection of the body.
That is, Christians shouldn’t be saying that the soul separates from the body and all we have left is this immortal soul,
and the body is completely cast off like a useless banana peel.
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Easter Sunday
John 20:1-18
While it was still dark….
The Easter Gospel opens with these words.
While it was still dark, in those brilliant early morning hours when most of the world still slept, Mary gets up and goes to the tomb.
While it was still dark…
Even as the sun had not yet...
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Apr11Sun
Transforming unbelief through love
A sermon for Easter 2, 2021 on the Believing Thomas April 11, 2021 by Sebastian Meadows-HelmerWell, Thomas is given the choice: of unbelief or belief.
Jesus doesn’t force faith on Thomas,
There is no ultimatum, no threats, no shunning or guilt-trips.
There just is love shown and demonstrated…
the wounds of love are shown,
The marks of God’s compassion are revealed
and Thomas is spoken to in the way that he can best understand it,
by an act of love.
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Apr2Fri
Jesus didn't die for your sins
Good Friday Sermon 2021 April 2, 2021- Filed Under:
- Pr. Sebastian
It’s almost impossible not to come to a Good Friday service
and feel sorry for your imperfections,
and assume that the sermon will have as its title:
“Jesus died for your sins.”
And no doubt there will be a majority of preachers today preaching a sermon on precisely that theme.