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Woven
A Sermon from the Book of Jonah, and Mark 1vs14-20 A few years ago I was teaching a Bible study around the book of Jonah to a class with varying degrees of biblical knowledge. The book of Jonah is 4 chapters long and we spent a total of 90 minutes unpacking the whole thing when…
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The Air Love Breaths is Freedom.
A Sermon for Advent 4, 2023 from Luke 1:26-55 What a curious experience we are having this year with the fourth Sunday of Advent aligning with Christmas Eve. As far as the world outside these walls of worship is concerned it is fully Christmas Eve but right now, just for the next 40 minutes or…
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Explaining God
God cannot be explained. Jesus cannot be explained. Grace cannot be explained. The Holy Spirit cannot be explained. Being born from above of again or anew, cannot be explained. In the middle of Jesus’s monologue he spoke the words, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in…
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Joy and Fragility
Almost two decades of youth ministry in various forms should have prepared me by now for the inevitable chaos in spaces once imagined as deeply contemplative. In fairness, the use of the word chaos is misleading. Youth tossing palm branches into a large pot and fanning it with the lid to keep the fire going…
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Fort-Night
When young adult ministry formed under a blanket fort Manna: Young Adults Making Meaning Through Joy and Friendship Every Tuesday evening a group of young adults come together in the youth lounge of First United Methodist Church for Manna. On a Tuesday evening in January they built blanket forts. Blankets were fastened to the ceiling…
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Hello World!
I want to write. Granted, I write all of the time. I write sermons for worship every other week. I wrote a dissertation for a Doctor of Ministry in 2020. Funny story. My advisor handed me my revisions about the same time the world went on lock down for the COVID-19 Pandemic. I can remember…
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Rev Matt Weiler 