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Freedom

Genesis 2:4-7,15-18,21-25, 3:1-8 Several years ago, I saw a film about Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. He was a fascinating person, a bit of an enigma. What was it about Jobs that made him so successful? He was not especially kind or likeable. He was not a gifted programmer, like his partner Wozniak. He was not a businessman. What was he? What was his genius? He was a creator. There is one scene in the movie where he obsesses about the dimensions of his new computer, the Next. It was a black cube, but apparently the dimensions had to be off just a fraction of an inch for the human eye to perceive it as a cube. The production staff got it wrong, and Steve was not satisfied with the results. He actually had a million other problems more urgent than this, but this was the one he obsessed […]

Who We Are

Mark 1:4-11 I always love this Sunday. The baptism of the Lord. It always comes the Sunday following Epiphany. It’s the one day of the year that we intentionally remember that Jesus was baptized by John, and that we are also called to be baptized into his family. For me, it’s always a treasured opportunity to talk with you about why we baptize, what it means to us. It’s easy to forget about baptism, really. Every new Christian is meant to be baptized, but we do it so infrequently that we seldom think of it. We all get baptized, but only once. And if you were baptized as an infant, as most of us were, you don’t even have any memory of it. Some people don’t even know for sure if they were baptized. Which is interesting to me. It says to me that baptism is sometimes a rather meaningless […]

Occupy

Scripture References: 2 Samuel 5:1-5,9-10; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 The beauty of following a story through a series of Sundays is being able to see how characters develop. You think back to just a few weeks ago when we were reading about the boy who ran around with a slingshot in his back pocket, following the sheep around the pasture, running errands for his dad and his big brothers. You think about this little boy who bragged to the soldiers of Israel, I could beat that old giant any day! And they laughed him off. And then he did. That cute little boy from the hick little town of Bethlehem, ruddy and innocent – look at him now. He’s king over all Israel, ruling from his new stronghold, the city on a hill, the city of David. All the tribes of Israel came out to see him, they praised him and […]