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August 26, 2018 Joshua 24: 1-2a, 14-18 By Jennifer Brownell This week in the grocery story I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that proclaimed: “bad choices make good stories.”
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June 24, 2018 1 Samuel 4 By Jennifer Brownell In the book and movie trilogy, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, young people – children really – are selected from
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April 29, 2018 Acts 8:26-40 By Jennifer Garrison Brownell In today’s scripture story, one of the early apostles, Philip, meets a eunuch. A eunuch occupies that which we are coming
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By Jerry Mathis It’s evening of the first day of the week. Sunday. Not today, but two weeks ago. Easter.Resurrection Day. The disciples, some of them, have gathered in a
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April 8, 2017 Luke 24:36b-48 and Acts 4:32-35 By: Jennifer Garrison Brownell At a neighborhood health food cooperative in St. Paul Minnesota where I worked in 1990, our clientele was
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Easter Sermon April 1, 2018 by: Jennifer Garrison Brownell According to Miles Townes, the last time Easter fell on April Fools’ Day was in 1956. Due to the quirks involved
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February 25, 2018 Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 and Mark 8:31-38 By Jennifer Garrison Brownell In spite of the corruption, the grandstanding, the politicking, I love the winter Olympics. To me, it
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February 18, 2018 Mark 1:9-15 and Genesis 9:8-17 By Jennifer Garrison Brownell Today is the first Sunday of Lent. These are the 40 days before Easter, a time of turning
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February 4, 2018 Isaiah 40:21-31, Mark 1:29-39 Rev. Jennifer Garrison Brownell Think of the 40th chapter of Isaiah as a state of the union address for the people of Israel,
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January 28, 2018 Mark 1:21-28 By Rev. Jennifer Garrison Brownell Even if I don’t make them formally, I’m a sucker for those kind of New Year resolutions that involve great
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