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October 27
United Church of Democrats? Pr. Eileen Gebbie 1 Kings 12.1-4, 16-17 Full text available here.
"Without compromising the message of our banners, how do we maintain this space as a house of prayer, as sanctuary, for all people? What do we have to do to be a living example of God's beloved kin-dom rather than another branch of the partisan American kingdom" |
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October 20
Joy for Peace Pr. Eileen Gebbie 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 6:1-5 and Psalm 150 Full text available here.
"Joy is not and Indulgence in the midst of grievous troubles, it is not a sign that we don't care. Joy in a Revolutionary act of Peace. When we are joyous, we are not trolling, when we are joyous, we are not bludgeoning. When we are joyous, we are energetic, expansive and just." |
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September 29
This Holy Ground Pr. Eileen Gebbie Exodus 1:8-14; 3:1-15 Full text available here.
"Moses is not a Superhero. He is not in any way different than anyone else and we are no different than him. Like Moses, we are flawed and we are capable. It's just that instead of a bush, the Amazon Rainforest, the greatest source of our oxygen and temperature control is on fire." |
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June 16
Bodies and Desire Pr. Eileen Gebbie Song of Songs 2:8-13 Full text available here.
"The Song of Songs tells us that all genders are equal and consensual sex is sacred. It assures us that 'many waters cannot put out love, nor rivers sweep it away.' Neither can hate, neither can fear." |
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June 2
Circumcise Your Heart Pr. Eileen Gebbie Romans 6:1-14 "Pare away whatever surrounds your heart such that the healing, just, generative, nature of God is obvious all the world in the healing, just, generative nature of you."
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May 19
Nothing to Sell Pr. Eileen Gebbie Romans 1:7-17 Full text available here.
"Our time is limited, making the spending of these hours at church of a Sunday precious indeed. Yet we are grateful not for what we get in return for them, but what we get to be because of them: Deeply in love with God and each other, trusting and trusted to witness to each other's doubts and God's wonders, loyal to the work of ending of bondage, whatever graves may threaten." |
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May 12
God's Credit Pr. Eileen Gebbie Acts 13:1-3, 14:8-18 Full text available here.
"Your heart knows about God. Your body knows about God. Those two loci of knowing, interdependent and ultimately beyond our control, retain raw knowledge of holiness, because that is where holiness lives, incarnate." |
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April 21
Joy and Fear Pr. Eileen Gebbie Matthew 28:1-10 Full text available here.
"So here are the glad tidings, hear the good news of Easter morn: When we, like the Magdalene and the other Mary, let these old stories and our companionship guide our search for a better way through a worsening world, we, too, encounter God's joy unbound. It may not offer solutions, but it will rebuke the paralysis of fear." |
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April 7
Wade in with Me Pr. Eileen Gebbie Matthew 25:31-46 Full text available here.
"We have, in this season of supremacist humanity and life-denying hubris, something more to learn, more to gain from the baptismal flow that connects us, through Christ, to creation. What have we not yet heard in the promises we made at her font? What have we not yet affirmed about the promises that were made for us there?" |
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March 17
White Women Pr. Eileen Gebbie Matthew 20:1-16 Full text available here.
"We white Christians cannot afford to give any room or any sympathy to pouting cries of unfairness by people who have lost nothing just because others have gained a little something." |
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March 10
I Don't Know What Forgiveness Is Pr. Eileen Gebbie Matthew 18:15-22 Full text available here. "This Lenten season, let us practice metanoia, a change of self, by changing how we approach the divine in ourselves and the divine in each other." |
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Ash Wednesday, March 6
Pr. Eileen Gebbie Matthew 18:1-19 Watch the video at right. The scripture this evening seemed suddenly quite pointed because, the week before, the governing body of the international United Methodist Church had voted to be more strict in its position regarding queer marriage and clergy. So how should I, a gay married priest, respond in the pulpit? |
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