by Stacey Hilliard | Apr 30, 2023 | Sermons
You can perhaps see from this 1990 photo of me with my own (freshly shorn) sheep, how much I love them, and I can’t pass up the opportunity the lectionary has given me to talk about them. What the picture doesn’t quite capture is the fact that sheep are dumb as rocks or a lot of other things about sheep that can help us understand the many, many metaphors in the Bible that refer to sheep and shepherds.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Apr 16, 2023 | Sermons
One of the odd pieces in the stories of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances is that even those very close to Jesus often fail to recognize him. I think that weird detail has something to teach us as we struggle to find Jesus in our lives today.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Apr 9, 2023 | Sermons
On Easter Sunday, our scripture lesson is the resurrection story from Luke, who reported that when the women who went to the tomb ran back to tell the disciples that Jesus was risen, their story was received as merely “an idle tale.” Some things never change.
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by Stacey Hilliard | Apr 6, 2023 | Sermons
On Palm Sunday, we descended the Mount of Olives with the joyful procession leading Jesus into Jerusalem. Just four days later, we find Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which lies at the base of the Mount of Olives, sweating blood in prayer. How did we get here?
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by Stacey Hilliard | Apr 2, 2023 | Sermons
If you climb a mountain, you also have to descend a mountain. On Palm Sunday Jesus embodies that descent, both literally and figuratively, as he descends the Mount of Olives on a donkey to the gates of Jerusalem, thronged by his followers. Then on Maundy Thursday, we meet Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the base of the Mount of Olives before he ascends the hill called Mt. Calvary, bearing a heavy cross.
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by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 26, 2023 | Sermons
When someone joins the military, their first real assignment is to make it through the rigors of boot camp. The difficult and harsh conditions there are meant to prepare soldiers for the much harsher and more stressful time of real conflict and war. Immediately following Jesus’ baptism, the Gospel writers tell us that Jesus was put through his own boot camp out in the Judean wilderness with none other than Satan as his drill sergeant. There in the mountainous wild, Satan tries to get Jesus to abandon the kind of ministry God has called him to do. Listen and learn about what tempted Jesus and why, and how all of that mirrors our own lives and world.
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