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The Sermon in the Valley with Pastor Rob Eller — 213 episodes

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Episode 210: Why Are You Looking Up? - An Ascension Sermon

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Episode 209: The Practice of Love

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Episode 208: Stubborn Hope - Audacity in a Trouble World

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Episode 207: Called by Name, Sent to Stay

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Episode 206: Were Not Our Hearts Burning?

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Episode 205: Raised, Reoriented, Recommissioned - An Easter Sermon

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Episode 204: They Will Know We Are His Disciples: The Costly Love of the Upper Room

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Episode 203: Palm Branches and Flipped Tables - A Palm Sunday Sermon of Hope

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Episode 202: Wilderness to Resurrection - From Death to Life

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Episode 201: Wilderness to Resurrection - Learning to See

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Episode 200: Wilderness to Resurrection - Water for the Journey

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Episode 199: Wilderness to Resurrection - Through the Unknown into New Life

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Episode 198: Wilderness to Resurrection - Temptation in the Wilderness

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Episode 197: See, Listen, & Follow Him - Transfiguration in a Weary World

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Episode 196: A Faith That Stings and Shines - Being the salt and light of the world

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Episode 195: Walking the Path of Justice and Mercy

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Episode 194: Follow the Light - Answering an Unlikely Call

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Episode 193: Behold the Lamb - A Messiah We Don't Expect

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Episode 192: Marked for Love, Sent for the World

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Episode 191: When Faith Says No: The Courage to Choose Another Way - An Epiphany Sermon

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Episode 190: The Promise of Light - The Light Has Come: A Christmas Sermon

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Episode 189: The Promise of Light - The Light Incarnate (Love)

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Episode 188: The Promise of Light - The Light that Surprises (Joy)

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Episode 187: The Promise of Light - Prepare the Way (Peace)

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Episode 186: The Promise of Light - The Dawn is Coming (Hope)

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Episode 185: No King Except Christ the King

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Episode 184: Faith in the Flames

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Episode 183: Stand Firm, Hope Lives

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Episode 182: Remembering Who We Are - An All Saints Sermon

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Episode 181: The Enduring Word That Won't Stay Silent, A Reformation Sermon

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Episode 180: Faith Found in Unexpected Places

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Episode 179: Faith Enough for Broken Times

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Episode 178: The Good Fight of Faith

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Episode 177: God Notices

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Episode 176: United Around the Cross

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Episode 175: God's Work Our Hands - The Way of Life

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Episode 174: At the Table of Grace - Seen, Honored, Welcomed

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Episode 173: The Sabbath That Sets Free

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Episode 172: Living the Way of Jesus Part 6 - Fire on the Earth: The Cost of Discipleship

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Episode 171: Living the Way of Jesus Part 5 - Ready and Waiting

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Episode 170: Living the Way of Jesus Part 4 - The Trouble with Treasure

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Episode 169: Living the Way of Jesus Part 3 - Teach us to Pray

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Episode 168: Living the Way of Jesus Part 2 - One Thing is Needed

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Episode 167: Living the Way of Jesus Part 1 - Who is my neighbor?

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Episode 166: Two Stories, One Mission: Saints Peter and Paul

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Episode 165: God Still Seeks and Unites Us

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Episode 164: When Wisdom speaks, we need to listen

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Episode 163: The Holy Spirit is moving you, get your shoes on

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Episode 162: Stop looking up and get to work!

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Episode 161: The Peace the World Can't Give

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Episode 160: All Things New Through Love

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Episode 159: Growth and Rebirth Through Faith

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Episode 158: Hearing the Shepherd and Being the Shepherd

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Episode 157: Embracing the Road to Emmaus and the Burning in Our Hearts

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Episode 156: Resurrection and Rebirth, an Easter Sermon

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Episode 155: The Journey to the Cross, A Palm Sunday Sermon

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Episode 154: Journey to the Cross - The Cost of Transformational Faith

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Episode 153: Journey to the Cross - Welcomed Home

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Episode 152: Journey to the Cross - The Call to Bear Fruit

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Episode 151: Journey to the Cross - Longing for God’s Protection

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Episode 150: Journey to the Cross - Facing Temptation

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Episode 149: Listen to Jesus!!

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Episode 148: Be defiant in your love and service to others

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Episode 147: Blessed are those who share their abundance

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Episode 146: God's calling us, how will we answer?

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Episode 145: Become refined by the light and carry it on

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Episode 144: Speaking Truth to Power is Rarely Easy but Necessary

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Episode 143: With God, the best is yet to come

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Episode 142: Fulfilling the promises made in baptism

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Episode 141: Be as brave as the Magi, An Epiphany Sermon

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Episode 140: The Light has Come for All of Us, A Christmas Sermon

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Episode 139: Christ is born for us all, A Christmas Eve Sermon

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Episode 138: A Weary World Waits for Peace

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Episode 137: A Weary World Waits and Rejoices

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Episode 136: A Weary World Waits and Prepares

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Episode 135: A Weary World Waits for Hope

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Episode 134: Jesus is the one, true king

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Episode 133: Every Ending is Just a New Beginning

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Episode 132: We are to give all we have, not just some

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Episode 131: The great Heavenly potluck is for everyone

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Episode 130: Freedom through Christ, a Reformation Sermon

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Episode 129: The overwhelming nature of being a disciple

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Episode 128: Voting as an act of prayer

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Episode 127: Our differences make the church stronger

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Episode 126: St. Michael and the fight of good over evil

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Episode 125: Who really is the greatest?

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Episode 124: Using our words to show love to our immigrant neighbors

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Episode 123: The cost of discipleship and burden of the cross

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Episode 122: Being the hands of God through our works

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Episode 121: Faith in action, not just words

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Episode 120: Giving Back to God - Stewardship of Our Stories

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Episode 119: Giving Back to God - Stewardship of Treasures

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Episode 118: Giving Back to God - Stewardship of Talents

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Episode 117: Giving Back to God - Stewardship of Time

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Episode 116: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 7 - Faith Provides More Than Enough For Us

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Episode 115: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 6 - Faith Gathers Us Together

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Episode 114: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 5 - Faith Brings Justice

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Episode 113: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 4 - Faith Sends Us Out and Sustains Us

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Episode 112: We are not a Christian nation

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Episode 111: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 3 - Faith Heals Us

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Episode 110: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 2 - Faith Calms Our Storms

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Episode 109: Live by Faith, a Summer Sermon Series Part 1 - The Power of Faith

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Episode 108: We all need a sabbath rest

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Episode 107: Living in the mystery of the Holy Trinity

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Episode 106: The Holy Spirit is pushing us into the world, a Pentecost Sermon

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Episode 105: We have work to do, an Ascension sermon

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Episode 104: Love, it's what we're called to share

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Episode 103: Welcoming new branches to the vine

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Episode 102: The example the Good Shepherd sets for all of us

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Episode 101: What it means to be a child of God

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Episode 100: Christ is risen! Or is he? The gospel is unfinished

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Episode 99: Jesus enters Jerusalem not as a king but as a humble servant

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Episode 98: The Road to Calvary - God's Promise to Know Him

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Episode 97: The Road to Calvary - God's Promise of a Second Chance

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Episode 96: The Road to Calvary - God's Promise of Community Through the Law

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Episode 95: Taking the Loaves and Fishes approach for church metrics

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Episode 94: The Road to Calvary - God's Promise of Grace and Life

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Episode 93: What will it take for us to love our neighbors?

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Episode 92: The Road to Calvary - God's Promise to Protect Us

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Episode 91: He still gets us, why can't we seem to get him

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Episode 90: Why aren't we listening to Jesus?

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Episode 89: We must dig below the surface of the Bible

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Episode 88: Have you not heard how great God is?

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Episode 87: Our stories shape our lives

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Episode 86: Love trumps knowledge

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Episode 85: The Gospel According to Ted Lasso: Not judging others

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Episode 84: Come and see

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Episode 83: The church must be united

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Episode 82: Remembering the promises in our baptisms

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Episode 81: We can never stay silent

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Episode 80: The Divine Defiance of the Magi

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Episode 79: Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary

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Episode 78: The Massacre of the Innocents is still happening

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Episode 77: A Christmas Sermon

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Episode 76: Showing love to our neighbors

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Episode 75: Getting through the darkness as we prepare for Jesus' return

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Episode 74: The future of small churches

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Episode 73: Preparing for Jesus by being a bit rough

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Episode 72: We cannot rush into Christmas

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Episode 71: Was St. Nicholas really all that jolly?

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Episode 70: We need to wait patiently for Christmas

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Episode 69: He gets us, but do we get him

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Episode 68: What are we doing as Christians?

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Episode 67: We don't have much time, so we can't waste it

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Episode 66: The true mark of a Christian is not how we worship but who we serve

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Episode 65: Have we started to love our neighbors yet?

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Episode 64: What it means to be a saint

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Episode 63: What it means to be a Christian

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Episode 62: The Word of the Lord can, shall, and will endure

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Special Comment: The tragedy in Lewiston, ME

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Episode 61: What it really means to take God's name in vain

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Episode 60: Our help can come from unexpected places

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Episode 59: Who is the devil?

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Episode 58: The great heavenly potluck is for everyone

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Episode 57: Why Jesus isn't our personal Lord and Savior

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Episode 56: Don't let some sour grapes or cranky workers stop the spread of the gospel

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Episode 55: We have choices to make in our lives

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Episode 54: God's love and compassion is for all of us

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Episode 53: Forgive others as you have been forgiven

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Episode 52: Love defines us, not conflict

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Episode 51: Why I'm staying in ministry and others aren't

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Episode 50: We must carry our crosses and deal with the suffering of the world

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Episode 49: What is our true calling and vocation?

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Episode 48: Children are the future of the church

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Episode 47: Our words matter

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Episode 46: God is the calm in the storms of our lives

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Episode 45: There will always be enough to go around

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Episode 44: Be the salt of the earth but not salty

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Episode 43: The kingdom of heaven is like...

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Episode 42: Church and technology, helpful or harmful?

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Episode 41: Weeds in the wheat, is it really all that bad?

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Episode 40: The Gospel According to Ted Lasso - Learning to Let Go

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Episode 39: Being the good soil to hear the word and love others

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Episode 38: The intersection of faith and science: an introduction

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Episode 37: Carrying the burden of being a follower of Christ

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Episode 36: Taking a sabbath

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Episode 35: Welcoming Jesus by welcoming everyone

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Episode 34: Is that what the Bible is saying?

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Episode 33: The Gospel doesn't always make us feel good, but we don't let that stop us

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Episode 32: Help Wanted - We have the work, we need your hands

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Episode 31: The Gospel According to Ted Lasso - Grace and Forgiveness in Grief

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Episode 30: God is calling who?!

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Episode 29: What the Bible really says about homosexuality

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Episode 28: What it means to be a disciple and make new ones.

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Episode 27: A Rural Retrospective

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Episode 26: Get ready to move, the Holy Spirit is calling

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Episode 25: There is work to be done

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Episode 24: If we love Jesus, then we are called to love everyone else

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Special Edition: A lookback at the Friends of the Homeless of Tuscarawas County and their plans for a new shelter

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Episode 23: Have we learned nothing about helping our neighbors?!

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Episode 22: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

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Episode 21: Are you being Christlike or "Biblical"?

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Episode 20: The gate that's always open

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Episode 19: Do we see Jesus around us?

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Episode 18: Have faith in our doubts

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Episode 17: Be persistent and never never never quit.

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Episode 16: Do not be afraid, an Easter sermon

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Episode 15: Was Judas really the bad guy?

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Episode 14: Love one another just as I have loved you

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Episode 13: Be humble, like Jesus was

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Episode 12: How much more do we have to endure?

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Episode 11: The Life Giving and Life Restoring Breath of God

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Episode 10: How I got where I am today

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Episode 9: Live in the light, fight the darkness

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Episode 8: Why aren't we caring for our neighbors?

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Episode 7: Faith is powerful and has no limits

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Episode 6: Who are we to deny communion?

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Episode 5: Who are we to condemn the world?

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Episode 4: Caring for our neighbors

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Episode 3: Facing life's tempations

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Episode 2: All are welcome...but do we really mean that?

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Episode 1: We Must Be Transformed

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Introduction