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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 17—July 30, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: Cooking is all about mixing different ingredients together, so I’ve got some things for you to mix up. Oh, wait; that last ingredient is wrong, so please take it out. But you can’t take out that yeast you mixed in. There’s no way to keep it from making that flour rise. In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks about a women who hid yeast in some flour, and it leavened all the flour. God’s love is in us just like the yeast, and there’s no way to take it away. As you can see, when I add water to our mixture, it comes alive. In the same way, you are all alive with God’s love hidden inside you.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 16—July 23, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In today’s first lesson we hear how Jacob dreamed of a ladder going up to heaven and angels going up and down the ladder. Angles are messengers of God, and they were bringing messages of blessing. Last week you gave pieces of papers to people at church, and they wrote blessings on them. Today you we be angles who will attached those blessings to this ladder.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 15—July 16, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks about sowing seeds. You don’t have much experience with plants, but if you put seeds in the ground they grow. Jesus talk about planting seeds everywhere—even where they don’t seem to have good soil. God gives the word to everyone in the same way. Sometimes God’s word goes to people that are ready to hear, and sometimes people are not ready for God’s word, but it can still grow. Here are some slips of paper for you to give to the people. You can pass them out carefully or just throw them around. In the end, everyone will get a piece of paper to write down a blessing, and we will used them to make a piece of art.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 14—July 9, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells everyone who is weary to lay down their burdens because his burden is light. One of you could pick up this bucket full of rocks, but you couldn’t carry it around the church. But if we put this curtain rod through the handle and all lift together, it’s easy. God does not promise us a life without the troubles represented by those rocks, but God and all who follow God are with you lifting together, and that makes burden of following Jesus easy.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 13—July 2, 2017
Preacher: Pastor J.P. Sabbithi
Summary: I’ve got a sock filled with coins. I’m going to pass it around and you can take as many as you want. Many of you thought you should leave some for the others who came later. We should always think about others, and that’s not always people far away. Sometimes it’s people right here with us. God gives us everything we need in abundance, and then we give to others.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 12—June 25, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In our first lesson, Abraham sent his Ishmael and Hagar, his mother, away to die in the wilderness, but God heard the boy’s cry and saved them. Hagar couldn’t see God, but God came to save her. When I crush these leaves from one of the trees outside our church, you can smell how fragrant they are. You’ve seen those trees many times, but you probably never noticed that. Just like that, we don’t notice that God is always with us.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 11—June 18, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: When you go to a party, there are many special things, and they all represent hospitality by the people giving the party. It’s like when Abraham in our first lesson offered hospitality to the strangers or Jesus sent the disciples to show grace to people in the villages they visited. We are all called to show the same kind of hospitality.
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Trinity Sunday—June 11, 2017
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: Even if I try to explain the Trinity, it’s really impossible. The best I can do is say that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit make up the Trinity. Here are some markers for you to draw what God looks like. Your pictures (photo at right; click to enlarge) are very different because God comes to us in many ways. The most important thing is that God is always with us.
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