Podcast: FLC Sermons
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An Honest Lament
This week as we continue our sermon series on Job, we find him in a very dark place. Job’s circumstances are extreme, and yet his despair and darkness are not all that removed from the suffering that can slip into our lives and our world today. Listen as Intern Pastor Miriam explores how we can take…
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A Cosmic Wager
This Sunday we began a sermon series on the book of Job, which highlights the story of a man who is completely righteous, loves God, and does everything right but loses everything. What starts as a cosmic bet between God and Satan ends with an exchange between God and Job, giving voice to our frustration…
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The Holy Trinity
This week we celebrate the idea that God is both three individual beings and one being at the same time. It’s a difficult idea to grasp, yet it is an important part of our theology. Listen as Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton wrestles with the Trinity and what that doctrine means to us particularly in these…
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Death Swallowed In Life
This week we find the Corinthians debating the possibility of resurrection. Listen as Intern Pastor Miriam discusses how confronting death and contemplating our own non-existence is a bleak affair – like staring into the abyss – but God’s promise of new life remains. Accompanying Scripture:1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57, Mark 12: 26-27
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Faith, Hope, and Love
This week we hear from the Apostle Paul when he writes to the Corinthians about love. Listen as Pastor Kate explores what he really meant when he wrote love is patient and love is kind and what that means to us now. Accompanying Scripture:1 Corinthians 13:1-3, Mark 12: 28-31
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Church at Corinth
In this week’s readings, we learn of Paul writing to the people of Corinth, concerned with the divisions among the followers of Jesus. Listen as Intern Pastor Miriam discusses how despite the many divisions that remain among us today – physical, philosophical and political – we are united as one body through Christ. Accompanying Scripture:Acts…
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Church at Thessalonica
The Book of Acts tells us about the spread of the early church and the opposition it faced from established powers. Guest Seminarian Alex Stall explores how today’s church also faces opposition from “the world.” As we slowly emerge from isolation, can today’s church respond to the call to reshape the world? Accompanying Scripture:Acts 17: 1-9,…
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Peter Heals in Jerusalem
This week we hear stories of God’s healing powers in Jerusalem and Gennesaret. Sometimes, though, the physical healing isn’t the only miracle that happens. Listen as Pastor Kate explores the ways God is at work today, healing us, making us whole and uniting us as one people in community with each other and God. Accompanying…
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You Shall Be My Witnesses
With Jesus’ resurrection, his disciples then wonder, what’s next? Intern Pastor Miriam explores how we too are wondering what’s next and invites us to bear witness to the ways God is at work all around us during this challenging time. Accompanying Scripture:Mark 6: 7-13
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Resurrection of Our Lord
Intern Pastor Miriam reflects on how this Easter – as strange, different, and depressing in the midst of COVID-19 it may be – is actually probably very similar to the very first Easter so many years ago. Accompanying Scripture:Mark 16:1-8