Episodes
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With Eagar Longing
Sermon given by Rev Mitch Hay and Rev Barb Lemmell on July 12, 2026
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Freedom in Christ
Sermon given by Rev Natalie Hill on July 5, 2026
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RECAP: Beginning with Beloved
Sermon given by Rev Barb Lemmel and Rev Mitch Hay on January 12, 2025 Gospel -- Luke 3:15-17, 21-22The people were filled with anticipation, wondering in their hearts whether John might be the Messiah. John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is mightier than I…
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RECAP: The One We Would Follow
Sermon given by Rev Mitch Hay and Rev Barb Lemmel on January 5, 2025 Gospel Matthew -- 2:1-12In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea,some Magi, astrologer priests from the East, came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the newborn king of the Judaeans? For we observed…
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RECAP: Smuggling God
Sermon given by Rev Barb Lemmel and Rev Mitch Hay on December 29, 2024 Gospel -- Matthew 2:13-23Now after [the Magi] had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is...
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Who's Your Devil - Jihyun Son
Sermon given by Pastoral Intern Jihyun Son Gospel Luke 4:1-13Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tested by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over he was famished. The...
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Ash Wednesday Reflection
Reflection from Rev Barb Lemmel on Ash Wednesday 2025 TORAH -- Genesis 2 The Lord God formed the human one (adam) from the dust ofthe ground (adamah), and breathed into its nostrils the ruach,the breath of life; and the human one became nephesh, aliving being . . . They heard the sound of the…
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RECAP: Who's Your Mary?
Sermon by Rev Barb Lemmel and Rev Mitch Hay on December 22, 2024 Gospel -- Matthew 1:18-25Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit. Her husband...
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RECAP: The Good That Is Ours to Do
Sermon by Rev Mitch Hay and Rev Barb Lemmel on December 8, 2024 Hebrew Scripture -- Isaiah 58:9-12Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and God will say, “Here I am.”If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,if you…
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Making Assumptions
Sermon by Rev Mitch Hay and Rev Barb Lemmel on March 3, 2025 Gospel -- Luke 9:28-43aNow about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as...
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All of Me
Sermon given by Rev Barb Lemmel and Rev Mitch Hay on November 10, 2024 Hebrew Scriptures Micah 6:6-8 “With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before God with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams…
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What Love Looks Like in Public
Sermon given by Rev Mitch Hay and Barb Lemmel Hebrew Scriptures - Micah 6:6,8 “With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high?" . . . God has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly...
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Jesus and Mental Health - Bishop Peggy Johnson
Sermon by United Methodist Bishop Peggy Johnson
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Dust of Your Rabbi
Sermon by Rev Barb Lemmel and Rev Mitch Hay on January 21, 2024. Gospel - Mark 1:14-20 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled; the Kin-dom of God has come near; let your lives be changed, trust in the good news. As...
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Called to Unsettle
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scripture - 1 Samuel 3:1-11, 19 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could...
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Covenant Considerations - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scripture - Genesis 1:1-5 When God began the creating of the heavens and the earth when earth was wild and waste (tohu wa vohu), darkness over the face of Ocean, rushing-spirit of God (ruach) hovering over the face of the waters— God...
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Is Christmas Cancelled? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel on Christmas Eve 2023
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Imagination and MemoryImagination and Memory - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Gospel - Magnificat - Luke 1:46-55 And Mary said, “My soul proclaims your greatness, O God, and my spirit rejoices in you, my Savior. For you have looked with favor upon your lowly servant, and from this day forward all generations will call…
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What Time Is It? - Sermon
A sermon by Adam McAllister. Gospel Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his…
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Waiting and Watching - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scripture - Isaiah 64 selections Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence! As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the world tremble. For…
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When Did We See You? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Gospel - Matthew 25:31-46 At the appointed time the Promised One will come in glory, escorted by all the angels of heaven, and will sit upon the throne of glory, with all the nations assembled below. Then the Promised One will separate them...
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Getting to Thanks - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Epistle - Ephesians 5:18b-21 Be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to one another, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to Abba God at all times and for everything in the…
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Choose This Day - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scripture Joshua 24:1-3a; 14-15 Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, and called a summit of the elders, leaders, judges, and officials of Israel. Once they presented themselves before God, Joshua said to the...
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Connected in Christ - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Hebrew Scripture Joshua 3:1-4a; 3:14-4:7 NRSV Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim with all the Israelites, and they came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing over. At the end of three days, the officers went...
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G.O.A.T. - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Epistle 1 Thessalonians 5:15-18 Make sure no one repays a wrong with a wrong. Always seek what is good for each other— and for all people. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give thanks for everything— for this is God's will for you in...
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Rendered - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Gospel Lesson Matthew 22:15-22 The Inclusive Bible Then the Pharisees went off and began to plot how they might trap Jesus by his speech. They sent their disciples to Jesus, accompanied by sympathizers of Herod, who said, "Teacher, we know...
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Faith in a World of Hurt
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitch Hay. Hebrew Scriptures Isaiah 25:6-10a, The Inclusive Bible On this mountain, YHWH Omnipotent will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, food rich and succulent, and fine, aged wines. On this mountain God will…
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3-Axis Mitzvot - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitch Hay Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 20:1-17 Then God spoke all these words, “I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything...
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Man-hu: Wow! or WTF?! - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitch Hay. Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 16 selections The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the...
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Considering All the Facts - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 14:5-7, 10-11, 19-25; 15:19-21 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials were changed toward the people, and they said, “What have we done, letting Israel leave…
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Love, with Interest - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitch Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 12:1–4, 7, 11–14 (Note: The Exodus passage tells the story of the preparations for the original Passover, as the enslaved Hebrew people made ready to leave their oppression behind. What do you hear in these words? What...
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On Fire But Not Consumed - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitch Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock deep into the wilderness, Moses came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The messenger of YHWH appeared to Moses in a...
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Shiphrah & Puah: Midwives of Liberation - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scriptures Exodus 1:8-21 Now a new Pharaoh arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will...
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Kyrie Eleison - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Gospel Lesson Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he…
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Where Are the Women? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Grace Killian. New Testament Lesson Acts 16:11-15 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some...
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What, Then, Are We to Say about These Things? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay. Epistle Romans 8:26-39 The Spirit, too, comes to help us in our weakness. For we don’t know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit expresses our plea with groaning too deep for words. And God, who knows everything in our hearts, knows perfectly well what the…
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Creation Groans - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Epistle Romans 8:14-25 Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. For the Spirit that God has given you does not enslave you and trap you in fear; instead, through the Spirit God has adopted you as children, and by that...
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Whoever Has Hears to Hear - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitch Hay. Gospel Matthew 13:1-9, 19-23, Barnstone translation On that day Yeshua went out of the house and sat by the sea. And a great multitude gathered before him, so that he got into a boat and sat there, and all the crowd stood on the shore. And he…
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When Love Disrupts? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Gospel Matthew 10:24-39 "A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much...
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Harassed and Helpless - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitch Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Epistle Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.…
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Connection Points - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Hebrew Scripture Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have radah [caretaking authority] over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all…
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Ubuntu - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitch Hay Hebrew Scripture Genesis 1:1-5 At the beginning of God’s creating of the skies and the earth when earth was wild and waste (tohu va bohu), darkness over the face of Ocean, rushing-spirit (ruach) of God (elohim) hovering over the face of the...
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What Language Shall I Borrow? - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. New Testament Lesson Acts 2:1-18 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they all met in one room. Suddenly they heard what sounded like a violent, rushing wind from heaven; the noise filled the entire house in which they were sitting. Something...
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Ascension Deficit Disorder - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Mitchell Hay and Rev. Barbara Lemmel. Hebrew Scripture Jeremiah 29, excerpts These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had…
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Help. Thanks. Wow. - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Epistle 1 Peter 3:13-18a Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ…
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Living Stones - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Epistle 1 Peter 2:2-5, 10 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen...
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Drawn Together - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitch Hay. Acts Lesson Acts 2:42-47 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were...
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The Story We Live Into - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Gospel Lesson Luke 24:13-35 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and…
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Being Christopher - Sermon
A sermon by Rev Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay Gospel Lesson Matthew 21:1-11 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a…
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Take Away the Stone - Sermon
A sermon by Rev. Barbara Lemmel and Rev. Mitchell Hay. Gospel Lesson John 11: 1–3, 5–6, 17–41a, 43b–44 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother…
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