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Sermons – House of Mercy — 575 episodes

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1

“John 14:1-14” (5-3-2026)

2

“Psalm 23” (4-26-2026)

3

“Luke 24:13-35” (4-19-2026)

4

“Acts 2:14 & 22-32” (4-12-2026)

5

“Luke 24:1-12” (4-5-2026)

6

“1 Samuel 8:1-22 & Matthew 21:1-11” (3-29-2026)

7

“John 11:1-45” (3-22-2025)

8

“Matthew 5:21-37” (3-8-2026)

9

“Matthew 4:1-11” (2-22-2026)

10

“Matthew 17:1-13” (2-15-2026)

11

“Ezekiel 37:1-14” (2-8-2026)

12

“Luke 2:22-40” (2-1-2026)

13

“John 1:29-42” (1-18-2026)

14

“Matthew 3:13-17” (1-11-2026)

15

“Matthew 1” (12-21-2025)

16

“No Offense” (12-14-2025)

17

“Isaiah 11:1-10” (12-7-2025)

18

“Matthew 24:36-44” (11-30-2025)

19

“John 18:33-38” (11-23-2025)

20

“Luke 21:5-19” (11-16-2025)

21

“Finally, She’s Living” (11-9-2025)

22

“Luke 19:1-10” (11-2-2025)

23

“John 10:11-28” (10-25-2025)

24

“Luke 12:49-56” (10-19-2025)

25

“Luke 16:19-31” (9-28-2025)

26

“The Feast of Jonah” (9-21-2025)

27

“Leviticus 23:22 and Psalms 126” (9-7-2025)

28

“Luke 14” (8-31-2025)

29

“Feast of Mary Magdalene” (7-27-2025)

30

“Ecclesiastes 1-2” (8-3-2025)

31

“Luke 10:38-42” (7-20-2025)

32

“Luke 10:25-37” (7-13-2025)

33

“Matthew 4:1-11” (7-6-2025)

34

“John 14:1-4” (6-29-2025)

35

“Luke 8:26-34” (6-22-2025)

36

“John 9” (6-15-2025)

37

“Acts 2:1-18” (6-8-2025)

38

“Psalm 20” (5-11-2025)

39

“Luke 10:25-37” (5-4-2025)

40

“Easter” (4-20-2025)

41

“Luke 19-24” (4-13-2025)

42

“John 12:1-11” (4-6-2025)

43

“Luke 15:1-3, 11-32” (3-30-2025)

44

“Luke 13:1-9” (3-23-2025)

45

“Luke 13:31-35” (3-16-2025)

46

“Luke 7:1-10” (3-9-2025)

47

“Luke 6:27-38” (2-23-2025)

48

“Luke 16:1-13” (2-16-2025)

49

“1 Corinthians 15 & Luke 5” (2-9-2025)

50

“Luke 4:14-30” (2-2-2025)

51

“Luke 4:14-21” (1-26-2025)

52

“John 2:1-11” (1-19-2025)

53

“Luke 3:15-22” (1-12-2025)

54

“Luke 1:39-49 and John 1” (1-5-2025)

55

“John 1” (12-29-2024)

56

“Luke 3:7-18” (12-15-2024)

57

“Hope in the Wilderness” (12-8-2024)

58

“No Kings 2.0” (11-24-2024)

59

“Hebrews 10:11-25” (11-17-2024)

60

“Mark 10:46-52” (10-27-2024)

61

The Feast of Jonah (9-22-2024)

62

“Divine Things” (9-15-2024)

63

“1 Samuel 8:4-20” (9-8-2024)

64

“Colossians 2:13-15” (9-1-2024)

65

“Exodus 32:1-19” (8-25-2024)

66

“This Was Once a Great Sea” (8-18-2024)

67

“Adoptio Rejectorium” (8-4-2024)

68

“Bread and Circuses” (7-28-2024)

69

“The Feast of Mary Magdalene” (7-21-2024)

70

“Hope is Necessary” (6-30-2024)

71

“Why Are You Still Afraid” (6-23-2024)

72

“Deconstructing the Law, Part 2” (6-16-2024)

73

“Deconstructing the Law, Part 1” (6-9-2024)

74

“House Divided”

75

“John 15:26-16:15” (5-19-2024)

76

“Nothing but Fear” (5-12-2024)

77

You Belong With Me: An Ethic of Radical Grace (4-28-2024)

78

“1 Corinthians 11” (4-21-2024)

79

“Luke 24:36-48” (4-14-2024)

80

“Opened Minds” (4-7-2024)

81

“Feast of the Revolution” (3-31-2024)

82

“Fifth Sunday of Lent” (3-17-2024)

83

“Glory: New and Improved” (2-25-2024)

84

“Slow Growth” (2-18-2024)

85

“John 4:1-26”

86

“Ridiculous Abundance” (1-28-2024)

87

“1 Corinthians 7:24-31”

88

“Mark 1:4-11” (1-14-2024)

89

“Luke 2:22-40″(12-31-2023)

90

“I Samuel 2:1-10 and Luke 1:46-55”

91

“A Train Ride with the Sheep, the Goats, and the Forsaken”

92

“1 John 4:7-12” (11-19-2023)

93

“Luke 6:27-31” (11-12-2023)

94

Clever Girls and Stupid Girls (11-5-2023)

95

“Psalm 23” (10-29-2023)

96

“By Land and by Sea: A Widow’s Might” (10-22-2023)

97

“Matthew 22:1-14” (10-15-2023)

98

“Matthew 22:34-46” (10-8-2023)

99

“Matthew 21:33-46” (10-1-2023)

100

The Feast of Jonah (9-24-2023)

101

“Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 and 9:7, 10”

102

There Is a Wild Kind of Mercy

103

“Matthew 18:15”

104

“John 11:17-50”

105

“Matthew 14:13-21”

106

“Flowers and the Weeds”

107

The Feast of Mary Magdalen

108

“Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23”

109

“The Achilles Heel of Jesus”

110

Psalm 8

111

An Earth Day Sermon

112

“Matthew 11:28-30”

113

Be In Love

114

Stories of Practice

115

You Must Be Dead Again

116

Spiritual Practice in the Age of Marjorie Taylor Greene

117

“John 9:1-41”

118

“Matthew 4:1-11”

119

“Matthew 6:25-33”

120

“Matthew 5:21-37”

121

“Matthew 5:1-12”

122

John 2:1-12

123

Luke 1:46-55

124

The Path of Conscious Love

125

“Mark 13:24-37” (12-11-2022)

126

“Joy in that Dark Night”

127

No Kings/100 Year Plan Revisited

128

Luke 21:5-19

129

How to Make an Ark

130

Practice Resurrection

131

“Luke 18:1-8”

132

Two Masters? Nope

133

Luke 14:25-33

134

Playing the Rules

135

Luke 13:10-17

136

The Calculus of Foundational Capitalism’s Spiritual Distortion

137

Luke 10:25-37

138

A Woman’s Place

139

Don’t Look Back

140

Romans 5:1-5

141

John 14:8-17

142

The Gospel of Mary

143

Christian Nationalism Explained

144

Not a Pretty Story

145

Sarah/Silence

146

Food and Love

147

Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?

148

On the Donkey

149

Out of Our Control

150

The God Who Sees

151

“We Can’t Stop the Light”

152

Rejection at Nazareth

153

Listen to your Mother

154

How God Shows Up

155

Augustus Was a Christmas Fascist

156

Recentering the Birth Narrative

157

The Unforgettable Fire

158

Season of Hope

159

Messiah King…Is That a Thing

160

Labor Pains

161

Scribes and Widows

162

John 6:56-69

163

Hardened

164

The End of Vengeance

165

Dog Woman Redux

166

Defiled Hands

167

Unleashing

168

Disrupt and Dominate 2: A Market that Needs Radical Disruption

169

An Intimate Metaphor

170

Fear and Tragedy

171

Fish in the Wilderness

172

Waiting for a Miracle

173

I Don’t Care How Hard It Is For a Rich Man to Enter Heaven

174

Daughters [sic.] of Zion

175

About the Weather

176

Seeds

177

Summer Camp and the Crack in the Text

178

Isaiah 6:1-8

179

The Mystery of the Occupation of the Living Word of God

180

That Body is Alive

181

Fruit

182

How Do You Abide?

183

Other Sheep

184

The Nonviolent Subversion of the Empire of Death

185

A Week After Easter

186

Easter

187

Stations of the Cross

188

“I Can’t Breathe”

189

Jesus in the Dark

190

Nic at Night

191

To Us Who Are Being Saved

192

Reinterpreting Justice

193

The Uncontrollable Love of God

194

After the Acquittal

195

Christian Nationalism in Light of the Resurrection

196

Unclean Spirits in a Post Insurgent Time

197

Mirrors

198

What to Do About All These Demons

199

Genesis 4:1-15

200

Word

201

The Sunday after Christmas is for Questions

202

The Light is in the Love

203

Repentance at the Mall

204

Looking for Cracks

205

Sucking All the Power out of Death

206

Waiting for the Waters to Stir

207

Just Be

208

Blindness 2020

209

Morris and the Hard Little God

210

Fear

211

Unbelievable

212

Sermon for the End of the World

213

A Footstool for Your Enemy

214

The Feast of Jonah

215

“Readings from the Feast of Jonah’s Past”

216

“Riot at the Temple Part 1”

217

All of Us. Everyone.

218

I Shall Become What I am Becoming

219

Sheep Gate (Innocent When You Dream)

220

Love

221

Light in the Darkness

222

White People Problem

223

A Piece of an Ear

224

Straight Forward Hope

225

Lamentation/Confession

226

The Farmer

227

The Book of Doubts and Adherent

228

Vanity Two Ways

229

Make Your Hearts Understand

230

The Language of the Unheard

231

O Lord, Rescue the King

232

Reading Job in the Pandemic

233

May 10, 2020

234

A Darkness You Can Feel

235

Carry On

236

A Small Thing for Which to be Grateful

237

Easter

238

The Stations of the Cross

239

Sustainable Mercy

240

Post apocalyptic praise song part III

241

Post-apocalyptic praise song part ll

242

We’ll Understand it Better By and By

243

All His Children

244

Covenant with/for the Land

245

The Tower of Babel

246

The Second Draft

247

Cain and Abel

248

Animals and The Animal

249

God, Creation, Other People, & Me

250

Mary and the Birth of all Things

251

The Right Time

252

What are we waiting for?

253

The Lilies of the Field

254

Guest of a Sinner Man

255

Mercy and the End of All Ego

256

Foreign Gratitude

257

Eat with Sinners

258

Bent

259

A Certain Rupture of Our Stability

260

The Unexpected Hour

261

Pull Down Your Barns to Build Larger Ones

262

Teach Us to Pray

263

The Better Part

264

Oh Say, Can you See?

265

Don’t Look Back

266

What the Hell?

267

Immoderate Expectations

268

Trans Jesus

269

We Are Many

270

Sermon for the End of the World

271

Restored

272

Impressed by Powerful Men

273

Penetecost Apocalypse

274

Cheryl Johnson

275

Who Knows?

276

Turn and Stand

277

Rev. John Marboe

278

Nothing Special

279

On the Dawn of an Execution

280

Ruined Aperture

281

After Empire

282

Wildflowers

283

Leave Her Alone

284

Hunger

285

You Will All Likewise Perish

286

Rev. Russell Rathbun

287

Into the Wilderness

288

Catching and Releasing

289

Good News to the Poor

290

… Let the Oppressed Go Free

291

Excess

292

Caught Fire from Franz Kafka

293

Resolution

294

Magnified Souls

295

Waiting For a Little Longer

296

The Wrath To Come

297

What are We Waiting For?

298

Stand Up and Raise Your Heads

299

The Sheep Gate

300

Good News

301

Doubting Thomas

302

The Man Who Carried The Cross For Jesus

303

The Little Sleeping Beauty

304

Sitting at the House of Mercy

305

The Good Seed & The Bad Seed

306

The Good Samaritan

307

The Pridigal Son

308

The Boy Who Gave His Lunch Away

309

Sermon

310

Zacchaeus

311

Mary and Martha

312

Jesus Calms the Storm

313

Nicodemus

314

Escape to Egypt

315

Wisemen

316

Baby Jesus

317

Let the Little Children Come to Me

318

Shadrach

319

Daniel in the Lion’s Den

320

Daniel in the Lion’s Den

321

The Sad Ending of the Kingdom of Israel

322

Elijah and the Wicked Queen

323

Elijah

324

David and Johnathan

325

The Boy with a Sling or This Book Belongs to Becky

326

Samuel and the Wake Up Call

327

The Adventures of Ruth

328

Samson’s Secret

329

Reading: Jeffrey Chalberg

330

Reading: Kristen Soltvedt Rinaldi

331

Reading: Katie Langston

332

Reading: Emily Hoisington

333

The Walls Come Tumbling Down

334

Balaam and his Talking Ass

335

Moses and the 10 Steps to Amazing

336

Moses’ Dry Feet

337

Moses and the Plagues

338

Moses and the Bulrushes

339

Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors

340

Jacob and the Birthright

341

Hagar and Ishmael

342

How Abraham gave Isaac back to God

343

Cain and Abel

344

Eden

345

Potentialities

346

The Child Grew and Became Strong in Spirit

347

Mary Christmas

348

The Darkest Season of the Year

349

Rev. Debbie Blue

350

Rev. Debbie Blue

351

Christmas Death Ritual

352

Christmas, Apocalypse, Rebels & Bell Choirs

353

Homily

354

Clever Girls and Stupid Girls

355

on the edge, at the bottom

356

A footstool for your enemy?

357

The Backside of God’s Glory

358

Violent Kings

359

The Jesus Film Translated

360

Reading – Adam Talle

361

Reading – Linda Henry

362

Reading – Dan Hoisington

363

Reading – Sonja Olson

364

No Justice in Heaven

365

Subverting the Exchange Paradigm

366

He Hit Me Back First

367

Jonah

368

A Million Possibilities

369

Cute Dog Scriptures

370

Sleeping Into The Void

371

Delight in the fatness and live

372

The Parables are Explained

373

Cheatgrass and Wildfire

374

Pestilential Exhalations

375

Over Time

376

Thought Experiment

377

The Ingrate Commission

378

Pentecostal Introvert

379

Nonalienating Glory

380

Polterchrist

381

Reading the Text this Side of the Resurrection

382

The Tower and the Wall

383

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Children

384

What Does It Take to be a Revolutionary?

385

Field Reports From the Revolution

386

Franz Pauls

387

Passion

388

The Hippies Are Out of Hand

389

Noah in the Flood

390

Heroes of Old

391

Letters to Paul

392

The Dis-ease of Unity

393

Relation Perfection

394

Reverse Narcotic

395

A Better Righteousness or Existential Despair?

396

Football Coach Jesus

397

Lamb of God

398

The End Is (Probably) Nigh

399

Baptized Into Prophecy

400

Electrochemical Supercharge

401

Not Ready for the Darkness

402

Merry Mary Mixer

403

Advent Snakes

404

The Wall and the Fire

405

Christ the King

406

Midrash Under the Bridge

407

Lamentations

408

Cows of Bashan

409

Baylonian Shitstem

410

Laughing at Kings, Averting Disaster

411

Bitter Prophecies

412

Feast of Jonah Reading #2 – Clip Art Season

413

Lost

414

A Very Little Story

415

Vulture God

416

13 Meditations

417

Jezzy Belle

418

Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

419

Lying Less

420

Lion in Winter: A Shadow Over the House of David

421

Absalom, Absolom

422

David and Bathsheba

423

The Man Born Blind

424

Standing in the Need of Prayer

425

David and Goliath

426

The Infidelity Cycle

427

Eye 4 Eye

428

and the walls came tumbling down

429

Desire

430

Crowd Love/Crowd Hate

431

Say My Name

432

The Destroyer

433

In Rivalry With Nothing

434

Dissident Midwives

435

The Master of Dreams: Part 2

436

The Master of Dreams

437

Goish Identity

438

Jacob and Esau: An Unsustainable Villian/Tzadik Dichotomy

439

Missing Isaac

440

The Woman who Named God

441

Abraham

442

Tower of Babel

443

The First Hero

444

Rev. Russell Rathbun

445

Mary Mother of God

446

John.0

447

Radical Poetry

448

Looking For Cracks

449

King of No Kings

450

Pangs

451

The Widow Might

452

The Lord Our God is One

453

Christopher Columbusing

454

The Slow Ones Now

455

What I Want

456

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Sonja Olson (reading)

457

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Phyllis Solon (reading)

458

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Richard Pemberton (reading)

459

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Michael Morris (reading)

460

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Erik Brandt (reading)

461

9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Julie Bach (reading)

462

Jesus 2012!

463

Crumbs from the Children

464

The Isolation of Privilege

465

8/26/12 – Am I Staying? (Phillis)

466

8/19/12 – Flesh and Blood (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

467

8/12/12 – Mormonism isn’t (Pastor Nathan Roberts)

468

8/5/12 – Luke Finsaas

469

7/29/12 – Russell is my Yoda, Sonja Olson

470

7/22/12 – Tim Snyder

471

7/15/12 – The Argument (Ben Barnhart)

472

7/8/12 – Power (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

473

6/24/12 – Tip the Boat Over (Rev. Debbie Blue)

474

My Sister and Father (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

475

6/3/12 – Laboring God (Rev. Debbie Blue)

476

5/27/12 – Resurrection IPO (Rev. Peter Boehlke)

477

4/29/12 – My Own Personal Jesus? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

478

4/15/12 – Can I Get a Amen? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

479

4/1/12 – How to Butcher a Chicken, Sonja Olson

480

3/25/12 – Before the Darkness Overcomes You, Rev. Russell Rathbun

481

3/11/12 – Tim Snyder

482

3/4/12 – It is Good That We Should Be Here (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

483

2/26/12 – Driven Out (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

484

2/19/12 – Gravity (Rev. Debbie Blue)

485

2/12/12 – John Linton

486

2/5/12 – What I Came to Do (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

487

1/29/12 – Everything (Rev. Debbie Blue)

488

1/14/12 – (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

489

12/25/11 – The Word Before the Baby (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

490

12/18/11 – Unrequested Gifts (Don Johnson)

491

12/4/11 – Repent (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

492

11/20/11 – No Kings (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

493

11/13/11 – Scared and Buried (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

494

10/23/11 – More Money (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

495

10/16/11 – Getting Out of Egypt (Rev. Debbie Blue)

496

10/2/11 – What Would He Do? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

497

9/25/11 – Reading 1 (Linda Henry)

498

9/25/11 – Reading 2 (Ben Barnhart)

499

9/25/11 – Reading 3

500

9/18/11 – Gettin’ Paid (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

501

9/11/11 – Tortured Forgiveness (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

502

9/4/11 – Murder and Mayhem (Rev. Debbie Blue)

503

8/28/11 – The Situation (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

504

8/21/11 – All God’s Sheep (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

505

8/14/11 – Dog Woman (Rev. Debbie Blue)

506

8/7/11 – Sinking (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

507

7/31/11 – Feeding (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

508

7/24/11 – Malformity of Mythical Botany (Rev. Debbie Blue)

509

7/17/11 – Weeds (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

510

7/10/11 – The Bad Seed (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

511

7/3/11 – Whatever Goes Into a Man (Rev. Debbie Blue)

512

6/19/11 – Learning to Tell the Truth (Tim Snyder)

513

6/5/11 – The Holy Unity (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

514

5/15/11 – Jesus Says (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

515

5/8/11 – Jesus From Behind the Bushes (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

516

5/1/11 – Doubt, Envy, and Other Forms of Worship (Rachel Finsaas)

517

Easter Reading ’11 (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

518

4/17/11 – Blood and Water (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

519

4/3/11 – Man Born Blind (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

520

3/20/11 – What Is God Like? (Rev. Debbie Blue)

521

3/13/11 – Tempted and Tried? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

522

03/05/11 – (Rev. Russell Rathbun

523

2/27/11 – Moloch! (Rev. Debbie Blue)

524

2/13/11 – Severed (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

525

2/6/11 – 250 Grams (Rev. Debbie Blue)

526

1/30/11 – Just Be (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

527

1/02/11 – About A Beginning (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

528

12/26/10 – Flesh (Rev. Debbie Blue)

529

12/19/10 – Sonja Olson

530

12/12/10 – The Wrong Jesus (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

531

12/4/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue

532

11/28/10 – Waiting For, (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

533

11/21/10 – A Lesser Kingdom (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

534

11/14/10 – Post Apocalyptic (Rev. Debbie Blue)

535

11/7/10 – My life as a herds boy following the Good Shepherd (Michael Kimpur)

536

10/24/10 – Upheaval/Peace (Rev. Debbie Blue)

537

10/17/10 – Negating God (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

538

10/10/10 – Can’t Touch This (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

539

10/3/10 – The Babylonian Shitstem: How Does the Empire Fall (Rev. Debbie Blue)

540

09/19/10 – Gimme What You Got (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

541

09/12/10 – Rev. Peter Rogness

542

08/29/10 – The Poor the Maimed the Lame and the Blind (Rev. Debbie Blue)

543

08/22/10 – Bent (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

544

08/08/10 – Where no Thief Comes Near (Zac Willette)

545

8/1/10 – Sonja Olson

546

07/25/10 – Free From the System? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

547

07/18/10 – Mary. Martha, & Me (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

548

07/11/10 – The Good Samaritan (Bruce Raynor Johnson)

549

07/04/10 – Woe to you too (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

550

06/27/10 – Dr. James Alison

551

06/20/10 – A Monster in Gerasa (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

552

06/13/10 – “Tradition, or in other words… Improvisation” (Tim Snyder)

553

06/06/10 – Spring Snow (Tim Paulson)

554

05/30/10 – Lips Like Honey (Rev. Debbie Blue)

555

05/23/10 – Things I Learned From my African Friends (Nathan Roberts)

556

05/16/10 – The Unfolding Weakness of God (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

557

05/02/10 – Meeting of Minds (a parable) Don Johnson

558

04/25/10 – In the Winter Time (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

559

04/18/10 – Guest

560

04/11/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

561

04/04/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

562

03/21/10 – Sermon (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

563

03/14/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

564

Sermon: 3/22/09

565

02/14/10 – Not Just Nectar (Rev. Debbie Blue)

566

03/21/10 – What Was Once Lost… pt 2

567

01/24/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue

568

01/17/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

569

01/10/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

570

01/10/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun

571

01/03/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue

572

01/03/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue

573

01/31/10 – Sermon

574

02/14/10 – Sermon

575

02/28/10 Sermon