Isaiah 58:1-12 | Psalm 112:1-10 | 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 | Matthew 5:13-20
Jeremy Richards
I should tell you upfront that I have limited time this morning, due to our congregational meeting, so I’m unable to dig into our Scriptures to the extent that I would like to. But that’s okay. I learned pretty early on that people don’t get too upset over short sermons.
Micah 6:1-8 | Psalm 15 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 | Matthew 5:1-12
Jeremy Richards
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In the song we just listened to – “Getting Ready to Get Down” – Josh Ritter tells the story of a young girl whose parents and pastor are beginning to worry about her. Apparently, she isn’t fitting “proper Christian girl” mold, so they send to a “little Bible college in Missouri” thinking a Christian education will straighten her out.
Isaiah 9:1-4 | 1 Corinthians 1:10-18| Matthew 4:12-23
Jeremy Richards
I remember the first time I heard Isaac Villegas preach. Brie and I had recently moved to Durham, North Carolina, and a friend we had made back in Portland told us she had a friend who pastored a small Mennonite congregation in Chapel Hill, so we decided to check it out.
Isaiah 63:7-9 | Hebrews 2:10-18 | Matthew 2:13-23
Jeremy Richards
We love to put things in categories, don’t we? We love to draw boundaries, to section things off. It’s how we understand the world. We divide everything! Cities into neighborhoods, animals into species and sub-species, academic subjects into specific schools of thought (continental philosophy vs. analytic philosophy), and so on. But there’s nothing we love dividing more than people. We divide people up by race, gender, sexuality, culture, class, country of origin, ability, hair color, musical preference, hobbies, and the list goes on. Just think of high school: you’ve got the classic categories like nerds and cheerleaders and jocks. And then you’ve got sub-categories – not just jocks but the soccer kids and the basketball kids and the baseball kids.