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Jun 28
7 min

Jeremiah & Confirmation Bias

What Jeremiah’s unpopular and yet prophetic witness shows us is that what’s easy for us to hear may not be what we need to hear. What we wan

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Wesley Arning

Jun 22
8 min

Jesus the Great Divider

Jesus is the Great Divider who unites us to himself. And there are three specific ways that he divides us: he divides us from the world, fro

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Wesley Arning

Jun 14
7 min

The Harvest & A Labor Shortage

The Church’s mission into the harvest field is borne out of Jesus’ compassion for people. He looked at them and loved them.

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Wesley Arning

Jun 7
5 min

Collective Sin & Trinitarian Unity

Even though we can look across our country, and across the world, and see how the human family is divided, the Trinitarian God is united.

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Wesley Arning

May 31
7 min

Pentecost with Lewis & Clark

We cannot canoe up a mountain, instead, we will have to adapt to our situation: to hold on to the essentials, to let some things go

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Wesley Arning

May 24
7 min

The Ascension

They understood that heaven and earth were two halves of God’s created world: two different yet interlocking dimensions of the creation.

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Wesley Arning

May 20
2 min

Watch Something That'll Feed Your Soul

A Quarantine Rule of Thumb: If you're going to watch something then occasionally watch something that will feed your soul.

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Wesley Arning

May 17
7 min

The Open Secret: Paul in Athens

It was, and is, available to anyone and everyone willing to leave even a slim possibility that there is more to life than just what we see

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Wesley Arning

May 10
6 min

Stephen: The Will to Forgive

Stephen’s life led up to this moment, and he was ready to forgive because he lived a life of forgiveness. He was filled with the Holy Spirit

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Wesley Arning

May 7
8 min

Moral Therapeutic Deism: An Observation

Even as messed up as we are God calls us to himself. But for that to be the case we must lay aside our own ambitions and desires and follow

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Wesley Arning

May 3
7 min

The Fundamentals of Faith

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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Wesley Arning

Apr 26
7 min

Let's Walk to Emmaus

It’s on the journey that Jesus comes and walks beside us. He meets us on the road, where we already are, and when he pleases (and when we...

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Wesley Arning

Apr 19
5 min

Jesus of the Scars

A group of people who are locked in their home and living in fear and anxiety: does it sound familiar? Are we talking about John 20 or April

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Wesley Arning

Apr 16
3 min

Competing with Netflix: The Church’s Struggle for Attention

Every church, no matter the size, is fighting for the attention of their members.

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Wesley Arning

Apr 12
14 min

God's Love in Action: Holy Week Sermons

He has shown us time and again during this Holy Week that his kingdom is rooted in the boundless love that is shared by the three persons of

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Wesley Arning

Apr 5
5 min

Palm Sunday: We Are The Crowd

It is faithfulness that we are called to. Not making demands or having our own plans and expectations for God, but simply to be faithful.

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Wesley Arning

Mar 29
3 min

A Meditation on Psalm 130

Crying from the depths, patiently waiting, and experiencing God’s loyal-love: these are all things we need to hear as a church in exile,

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Wesley Arning

Mar 27
6 min

Creating Sacred Practices at Home

This time may teach leaders what it means to lead and not to be a helicopter parent. We must give our members the tools and training they ne

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Wesley Arning

Mar 18
6 min

Sanctifying Our Solitude: The Church’s Exile During COVID-19

Exile and Solitude. Two unpopular ideas in this day and age, and yet they may be the very motifs that can guide us through the next few week

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Wesley Arning

Mar 8
6 min

Sermon #174: The Tornado & Psalm 121

I find it amazing when people who have lost everything, act as if they haven’t, in fact, lost everything. Even in the midst of the rubble, t

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