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Sermons – House of Mercy — 580 episodes
“Matthew 10:24-39” (6-21-2026)
“Matthew 28:16-20” (5-31-2026)
“John 20:19-23” (5-24-2026)
“John 17:1-11” (5-17-2026)
“Acts 17:22-31” (5-10-2026)
“John 14:1-14” (5-3-2026)
“Psalm 23” (4-26-2026)
“Luke 24:13-35” (4-19-2026)
“Acts 2:14 & 22-32” (4-12-2026)
“Luke 24:1-12” (4-5-2026)
“1 Samuel 8:1-22 & Matthew 21:1-11” (3-29-2026)
“John 11:1-45” (3-22-2025)
“Matthew 5:21-37” (3-8-2026)
“Matthew 4:1-11” (2-22-2026)
“Matthew 17:1-13” (2-15-2026)
“Ezekiel 37:1-14” (2-8-2026)
“Luke 2:22-40” (2-1-2026)
“John 1:29-42” (1-18-2026)
“Matthew 3:13-17” (1-11-2026)
“Matthew 1” (12-21-2025)
“No Offense” (12-14-2025)
“Isaiah 11:1-10” (12-7-2025)
“Matthew 24:36-44” (11-30-2025)
“John 18:33-38” (11-23-2025)
“Luke 21:5-19” (11-16-2025)
“Finally, She’s Living” (11-9-2025)
“Luke 19:1-10” (11-2-2025)
“John 10:11-28” (10-25-2025)
“Luke 12:49-56” (10-19-2025)
“Luke 16:19-31” (9-28-2025)
“The Feast of Jonah” (9-21-2025)
“Leviticus 23:22 and Psalms 126” (9-7-2025)
“Luke 14” (8-31-2025)
“Feast of Mary Magdalene” (7-27-2025)
“Ecclesiastes 1-2” (8-3-2025)
“Luke 10:38-42” (7-20-2025)
“Luke 10:25-37” (7-13-2025)
“Matthew 4:1-11” (7-6-2025)
“John 14:1-4” (6-29-2025)
“Luke 8:26-34” (6-22-2025)
“John 9” (6-15-2025)
“Acts 2:1-18” (6-8-2025)
“Psalm 20” (5-11-2025)
“Luke 10:25-37” (5-4-2025)
“Easter” (4-20-2025)
“Luke 19-24” (4-13-2025)
“John 12:1-11” (4-6-2025)
“Luke 15:1-3, 11-32” (3-30-2025)
“Luke 13:1-9” (3-23-2025)
“Luke 13:31-35” (3-16-2025)
“Luke 7:1-10” (3-9-2025)
“Luke 6:27-38” (2-23-2025)
“Luke 16:1-13” (2-16-2025)
“1 Corinthians 15 & Luke 5” (2-9-2025)
“Luke 4:14-30” (2-2-2025)
“Luke 4:14-21” (1-26-2025)
“John 2:1-11” (1-19-2025)
“Luke 3:15-22” (1-12-2025)
“Luke 1:39-49 and John 1” (1-5-2025)
“John 1” (12-29-2024)
“Luke 3:7-18” (12-15-2024)
“Hope in the Wilderness” (12-8-2024)
“No Kings 2.0” (11-24-2024)
“Hebrews 10:11-25” (11-17-2024)
“Mark 10:46-52” (10-27-2024)
The Feast of Jonah (9-22-2024)
“Divine Things” (9-15-2024)
“1 Samuel 8:4-20” (9-8-2024)
“Colossians 2:13-15” (9-1-2024)
“Exodus 32:1-19” (8-25-2024)
“This Was Once a Great Sea” (8-18-2024)
“Adoptio Rejectorium” (8-4-2024)
“Bread and Circuses” (7-28-2024)
“The Feast of Mary Magdalene” (7-21-2024)
“Hope is Necessary” (6-30-2024)
“Why Are You Still Afraid” (6-23-2024)
“Deconstructing the Law, Part 2” (6-16-2024)
“Deconstructing the Law, Part 1” (6-9-2024)
“House Divided”
“John 15:26-16:15” (5-19-2024)
“Nothing but Fear” (5-12-2024)
You Belong With Me: An Ethic of Radical Grace (4-28-2024)
“1 Corinthians 11” (4-21-2024)
“Luke 24:36-48” (4-14-2024)
“Opened Minds” (4-7-2024)
“Feast of the Revolution” (3-31-2024)
“Fifth Sunday of Lent” (3-17-2024)
“Glory: New and Improved” (2-25-2024)
“Slow Growth” (2-18-2024)
“John 4:1-26”
“Ridiculous Abundance” (1-28-2024)
“1 Corinthians 7:24-31”
“Mark 1:4-11” (1-14-2024)
“Luke 2:22-40″(12-31-2023)
“I Samuel 2:1-10 and Luke 1:46-55”
“A Train Ride with the Sheep, the Goats, and the Forsaken”
“1 John 4:7-12” (11-19-2023)
“Luke 6:27-31” (11-12-2023)
Clever Girls and Stupid Girls (11-5-2023)
“Psalm 23” (10-29-2023)
“By Land and by Sea: A Widow’s Might” (10-22-2023)
“Matthew 22:1-14” (10-15-2023)
“Matthew 22:34-46” (10-8-2023)
“Matthew 21:33-46” (10-1-2023)
The Feast of Jonah (9-24-2023)
“Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 and 9:7, 10”
There Is a Wild Kind of Mercy
“Matthew 18:15”
“John 11:17-50”
“Matthew 14:13-21”
“Flowers and the Weeds”
The Feast of Mary Magdalen
“Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23”
“The Achilles Heel of Jesus”
Psalm 8
An Earth Day Sermon
“Matthew 11:28-30”
Be In Love
Stories of Practice
You Must Be Dead Again
Spiritual Practice in the Age of Marjorie Taylor Greene
“John 9:1-41”
“Matthew 4:1-11”
“Matthew 6:25-33”
“Matthew 5:21-37”
“Matthew 5:1-12”
John 2:1-12
Luke 1:46-55
The Path of Conscious Love
“Mark 13:24-37” (12-11-2022)
“Joy in that Dark Night”
No Kings/100 Year Plan Revisited
Luke 21:5-19
How to Make an Ark
Practice Resurrection
“Luke 18:1-8”
Two Masters? Nope
Luke 14:25-33
Playing the Rules
Luke 13:10-17
The Calculus of Foundational Capitalism’s Spiritual Distortion
Luke 10:25-37
A Woman’s Place
Don’t Look Back
Romans 5:1-5
John 14:8-17
The Gospel of Mary
Christian Nationalism Explained
Not a Pretty Story
Sarah/Silence
Food and Love
Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?
On the Donkey
Out of Our Control
The God Who Sees
“We Can’t Stop the Light”
Rejection at Nazareth
Listen to your Mother
How God Shows Up
Augustus Was a Christmas Fascist
Recentering the Birth Narrative
The Unforgettable Fire
Season of Hope
Messiah King…Is That a Thing
Labor Pains
Scribes and Widows
John 6:56-69
Hardened
The End of Vengeance
Dog Woman Redux
Defiled Hands
Unleashing
Disrupt and Dominate 2: A Market that Needs Radical Disruption
An Intimate Metaphor
Fear and Tragedy
Fish in the Wilderness
Waiting for a Miracle
I Don’t Care How Hard It Is For a Rich Man to Enter Heaven
Daughters [sic.] of Zion
About the Weather
Seeds
Summer Camp and the Crack in the Text
Isaiah 6:1-8
The Mystery of the Occupation of the Living Word of God
That Body is Alive
Fruit
How Do You Abide?
Other Sheep
The Nonviolent Subversion of the Empire of Death
A Week After Easter
Easter
Stations of the Cross
“I Can’t Breathe”
Jesus in the Dark
Nic at Night
To Us Who Are Being Saved
Reinterpreting Justice
The Uncontrollable Love of God
After the Acquittal
Christian Nationalism in Light of the Resurrection
Unclean Spirits in a Post Insurgent Time
Mirrors
What to Do About All These Demons
Genesis 4:1-15
Word
The Sunday after Christmas is for Questions
The Light is in the Love
Repentance at the Mall
Looking for Cracks
Sucking All the Power out of Death
Waiting for the Waters to Stir
Just Be
Blindness 2020
Morris and the Hard Little God
Fear
Unbelievable
Sermon for the End of the World
A Footstool for Your Enemy
The Feast of Jonah
“Readings from the Feast of Jonah’s Past”
“Riot at the Temple Part 1”
All of Us. Everyone.
I Shall Become What I am Becoming
Sheep Gate (Innocent When You Dream)
Love
Light in the Darkness
White People Problem
A Piece of an Ear
Straight Forward Hope
Lamentation/Confession
The Farmer
The Book of Doubts and Adherent
Vanity Two Ways
Make Your Hearts Understand
The Language of the Unheard
O Lord, Rescue the King
Reading Job in the Pandemic
May 10, 2020
A Darkness You Can Feel
Carry On
A Small Thing for Which to be Grateful
Easter
The Stations of the Cross
Sustainable Mercy
Post apocalyptic praise song part III
Post-apocalyptic praise song part ll
We’ll Understand it Better By and By
All His Children
Covenant with/for the Land
The Tower of Babel
The Second Draft
Cain and Abel
Animals and The Animal
God, Creation, Other People, & Me
Mary and the Birth of all Things
The Right Time
What are we waiting for?
The Lilies of the Field
Guest of a Sinner Man
Mercy and the End of All Ego
Foreign Gratitude
Eat with Sinners
Bent
A Certain Rupture of Our Stability
The Unexpected Hour
Pull Down Your Barns to Build Larger Ones
Teach Us to Pray
The Better Part
Oh Say, Can you See?
Don’t Look Back
What the Hell?
Immoderate Expectations
Trans Jesus
We Are Many
Sermon for the End of the World
Restored
Impressed by Powerful Men
Penetecost Apocalypse
Cheryl Johnson
Who Knows?
Turn and Stand
Rev. John Marboe
Nothing Special
On the Dawn of an Execution
Ruined Aperture
After Empire
Wildflowers
Leave Her Alone
Hunger
You Will All Likewise Perish
Rev. Russell Rathbun
Into the Wilderness
Catching and Releasing
Good News to the Poor
… Let the Oppressed Go Free
Excess
Caught Fire from Franz Kafka
Resolution
Magnified Souls
Waiting For a Little Longer
The Wrath To Come
What are We Waiting For?
Stand Up and Raise Your Heads
The Sheep Gate
Good News
Doubting Thomas
The Man Who Carried The Cross For Jesus
The Little Sleeping Beauty
Sitting at the House of Mercy
The Good Seed & The Bad Seed
The Good Samaritan
The Pridigal Son
The Boy Who Gave His Lunch Away
Sermon
Zacchaeus
Mary and Martha
Jesus Calms the Storm
Nicodemus
Escape to Egypt
Wisemen
Baby Jesus
Let the Little Children Come to Me
Shadrach
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
The Sad Ending of the Kingdom of Israel
Elijah and the Wicked Queen
Elijah
David and Johnathan
The Boy with a Sling or This Book Belongs to Becky
Samuel and the Wake Up Call
The Adventures of Ruth
Samson’s Secret
Reading: Jeffrey Chalberg
Reading: Kristen Soltvedt Rinaldi
Reading: Katie Langston
Reading: Emily Hoisington
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Balaam and his Talking Ass
Moses and the 10 Steps to Amazing
Moses’ Dry Feet
Moses and the Plagues
Moses and the Bulrushes
Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
Jacob and the Birthright
Hagar and Ishmael
How Abraham gave Isaac back to God
Cain and Abel
Eden
Potentialities
The Child Grew and Became Strong in Spirit
Mary Christmas
The Darkest Season of the Year
Rev. Debbie Blue
Rev. Debbie Blue
Christmas Death Ritual
Christmas, Apocalypse, Rebels & Bell Choirs
Homily
Clever Girls and Stupid Girls
on the edge, at the bottom
A footstool for your enemy?
The Backside of God’s Glory
Violent Kings
The Jesus Film Translated
Reading – Adam Talle
Reading – Linda Henry
Reading – Dan Hoisington
Reading – Sonja Olson
No Justice in Heaven
Subverting the Exchange Paradigm
He Hit Me Back First
Jonah
A Million Possibilities
Cute Dog Scriptures
Sleeping Into The Void
Delight in the fatness and live
The Parables are Explained
Cheatgrass and Wildfire
Pestilential Exhalations
Over Time
Thought Experiment
The Ingrate Commission
Pentecostal Introvert
Nonalienating Glory
Polterchrist
Reading the Text this Side of the Resurrection
The Tower and the Wall
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Children
What Does It Take to be a Revolutionary?
Field Reports From the Revolution
Franz Pauls
Passion
The Hippies Are Out of Hand
Noah in the Flood
Heroes of Old
Letters to Paul
The Dis-ease of Unity
Relation Perfection
Reverse Narcotic
A Better Righteousness or Existential Despair?
Football Coach Jesus
Lamb of God
The End Is (Probably) Nigh
Baptized Into Prophecy
Electrochemical Supercharge
Not Ready for the Darkness
Merry Mary Mixer
Advent Snakes
The Wall and the Fire
Christ the King
Midrash Under the Bridge
Lamentations
Cows of Bashan
Baylonian Shitstem
Laughing at Kings, Averting Disaster
Bitter Prophecies
Feast of Jonah Reading #2 – Clip Art Season
Lost
A Very Little Story
Vulture God
13 Meditations
Jezzy Belle
Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
Lying Less
Lion in Winter: A Shadow Over the House of David
Absalom, Absolom
David and Bathsheba
The Man Born Blind
Standing in the Need of Prayer
David and Goliath
The Infidelity Cycle
Eye 4 Eye
and the walls came tumbling down
Desire
Crowd Love/Crowd Hate
Say My Name
The Destroyer
In Rivalry With Nothing
Dissident Midwives
The Master of Dreams: Part 2
The Master of Dreams
Goish Identity
Jacob and Esau: An Unsustainable Villian/Tzadik Dichotomy
Missing Isaac
The Woman who Named God
Abraham
Tower of Babel
The First Hero
Rev. Russell Rathbun
Mary Mother of God
John.0
Radical Poetry
Looking For Cracks
King of No Kings
Pangs
The Widow Might
The Lord Our God is One
Christopher Columbusing
The Slow Ones Now
What I Want
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Sonja Olson (reading)
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Phyllis Solon (reading)
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Richard Pemberton (reading)
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Michael Morris (reading)
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Erik Brandt (reading)
9/23/12 – Feast of Jonah, Julie Bach (reading)
Jesus 2012!
Crumbs from the Children
The Isolation of Privilege
8/26/12 – Am I Staying? (Phillis)
8/19/12 – Flesh and Blood (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
8/12/12 – Mormonism isn’t (Pastor Nathan Roberts)
8/5/12 – Luke Finsaas
7/29/12 – Russell is my Yoda, Sonja Olson
7/22/12 – Tim Snyder
7/15/12 – The Argument (Ben Barnhart)
7/8/12 – Power (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
6/24/12 – Tip the Boat Over (Rev. Debbie Blue)
My Sister and Father (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
6/3/12 – Laboring God (Rev. Debbie Blue)
5/27/12 – Resurrection IPO (Rev. Peter Boehlke)
4/29/12 – My Own Personal Jesus? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
4/15/12 – Can I Get a Amen? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
4/1/12 – How to Butcher a Chicken, Sonja Olson
3/25/12 – Before the Darkness Overcomes You, Rev. Russell Rathbun
3/11/12 – Tim Snyder
3/4/12 – It is Good That We Should Be Here (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
2/26/12 – Driven Out (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
2/19/12 – Gravity (Rev. Debbie Blue)
2/12/12 – John Linton
2/5/12 – What I Came to Do (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
1/29/12 – Everything (Rev. Debbie Blue)
1/14/12 – (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
12/25/11 – The Word Before the Baby (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
12/18/11 – Unrequested Gifts (Don Johnson)
12/4/11 – Repent (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
11/20/11 – No Kings (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
11/13/11 – Scared and Buried (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
10/23/11 – More Money (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
10/16/11 – Getting Out of Egypt (Rev. Debbie Blue)
10/2/11 – What Would He Do? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
9/25/11 – Reading 1 (Linda Henry)
9/25/11 – Reading 2 (Ben Barnhart)
9/25/11 – Reading 3
9/18/11 – Gettin’ Paid (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
9/11/11 – Tortured Forgiveness (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
9/4/11 – Murder and Mayhem (Rev. Debbie Blue)
8/28/11 – The Situation (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
8/21/11 – All God’s Sheep (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
8/14/11 – Dog Woman (Rev. Debbie Blue)
8/7/11 – Sinking (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
7/31/11 – Feeding (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
7/24/11 – Malformity of Mythical Botany (Rev. Debbie Blue)
7/17/11 – Weeds (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
7/10/11 – The Bad Seed (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
7/3/11 – Whatever Goes Into a Man (Rev. Debbie Blue)
6/19/11 – Learning to Tell the Truth (Tim Snyder)
6/5/11 – The Holy Unity (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
5/15/11 – Jesus Says (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
5/8/11 – Jesus From Behind the Bushes (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
5/1/11 – Doubt, Envy, and Other Forms of Worship (Rachel Finsaas)
Easter Reading ’11 (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
4/17/11 – Blood and Water (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
4/3/11 – Man Born Blind (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
3/20/11 – What Is God Like? (Rev. Debbie Blue)
3/13/11 – Tempted and Tried? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
03/05/11 – (Rev. Russell Rathbun
2/27/11 – Moloch! (Rev. Debbie Blue)
2/13/11 – Severed (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
2/6/11 – 250 Grams (Rev. Debbie Blue)
1/30/11 – Just Be (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
1/02/11 – About A Beginning (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
12/26/10 – Flesh (Rev. Debbie Blue)
12/19/10 – Sonja Olson
12/12/10 – The Wrong Jesus (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
12/4/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue
11/28/10 – Waiting For, (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
11/21/10 – A Lesser Kingdom (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
11/14/10 – Post Apocalyptic (Rev. Debbie Blue)
11/7/10 – My life as a herds boy following the Good Shepherd (Michael Kimpur)
10/24/10 – Upheaval/Peace (Rev. Debbie Blue)
10/17/10 – Negating God (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
10/10/10 – Can’t Touch This (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
10/3/10 – The Babylonian Shitstem: How Does the Empire Fall (Rev. Debbie Blue)
09/19/10 – Gimme What You Got (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
09/12/10 – Rev. Peter Rogness
08/29/10 – The Poor the Maimed the Lame and the Blind (Rev. Debbie Blue)
08/22/10 – Bent (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
08/08/10 – Where no Thief Comes Near (Zac Willette)
8/1/10 – Sonja Olson
07/25/10 – Free From the System? (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
07/18/10 – Mary. Martha, & Me (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
07/11/10 – The Good Samaritan (Bruce Raynor Johnson)
07/04/10 – Woe to you too (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
06/27/10 – Dr. James Alison
06/20/10 – A Monster in Gerasa (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
06/13/10 – “Tradition, or in other words… Improvisation” (Tim Snyder)
06/06/10 – Spring Snow (Tim Paulson)
05/30/10 – Lips Like Honey (Rev. Debbie Blue)
05/23/10 – Things I Learned From my African Friends (Nathan Roberts)
05/16/10 – The Unfolding Weakness of God (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
05/02/10 – Meeting of Minds (a parable) Don Johnson
04/25/10 – In the Winter Time (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
04/18/10 – Guest
04/11/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
04/04/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
03/21/10 – Sermon (Rev. Russell Rathbun)
03/14/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
Sermon: 3/22/09
02/14/10 – Not Just Nectar (Rev. Debbie Blue)
03/21/10 – What Was Once Lost… pt 2
01/24/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue
01/17/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
01/10/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
01/10/10 – Rev. Russell Rathbun
01/03/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue
01/03/10 – Rev. Debbie Blue
01/31/10 – Sermon
02/14/10 – Sermon
02/28/10 Sermon