Sinopsis
Podcast by Alan Bentrup
Episodios
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We Know How This Thing Ends (A sermon for the last Monday after the Epiphany)
04/03/2019 Duración: 03minWhen we know the end of the story, it frees us to look at the journey in a new way.
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Right Here. Right Now. Today (A Sermon for Epiphany 3C, 2019)
27/01/2019 Duración: 13minJesus is asking his friends to open their eyes, to see God at work in the world around them, and to look for those ways they might participate in God’s mission. Right here. Right now. Today. In a very real way, the Spirit was upon Jesus. And that same Spirit abides in you, and me, and all of us. Right here. Right now. Today. And by emphasizing the word “today,” Jesus transformed Isaiah's words, Isaiah's prophecy, into a powerful invitation for the whole community to act on behalf of God's dream of justice. Right here. Right now. Today.
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Timing is Everything (A Sermon for Epiphany 2C)
20/01/2019 Duración: 17minTiming is everything, and it is time to pray and discern and study the Bible and get to know our neighborhoods, so that we can figure out what particular roles we play in these stories.
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What Are We Waiting For? ( A Sermon for Advent 1C 2018)
03/12/2018 Duración: 12minWe don’t just need to wait for the Light to come. We need to be the light in the world.
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Sacrificial. Selfless. Reckless. (A Sermon for Proper 27B - 2018)
11/11/2018 Duración: 15minTo me, this section of Mark isn’t rocket science. It is about how we are supposed to live. About how we are supposed to love. I don’t know if y’all are in your stewardship season or not, but it’s also about how we’re supposed to give. But above all, it is about how we are supposed to respond to God and relate to one another. Loving...living...giving. Sacrificially...selflessly...recklessly.
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Live and Love Like the Saints (a sermon for Proper 26B
04/11/2018 Duración: 12minWhat is the greatest commandment?
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I Want To See Again (A Sermon for Proper 25B 2018)
28/10/2018 Duración: 16minWhat do you want me to do for you? I want to see everything as made in God's image.
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Pocket Knives and the Kingdom of God
14/10/2018 Duración: 05minWhat are we willing to give up to follow Jesus?
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Listen Like a Child (A Sermon for Proper 22B)
08/10/2018 Duración: 13minJesus is talking about a relationship all right, but perhaps he is using marriage as a metaphor for something bigger. Jesus is talking about brokenness in our lives, and in our relationships...but he is talking about the source of that brokenness. Hard hearts. Unlistening hearts.
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The River Is Moving (A Sermon for EDUSC Clergy Conference)
25/09/2018 Duración: 16minAs is the case with any successful institution, the church as we know it today was built with the best social and religious engineering available: as a robust and hardy structure to last. A lot of time, energy, sweat, and money has been invested. Generations of investment. And it served as a bridge for many to move from birth to death. It spanned the river. And that all worked very well when the river was in the right place.
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Stand With Christ, Stand With Others (A Sermon for Proper 7B)
24/06/2018 Duración: 13minWe stood with one another when we faced a storm 10 months ago. And we are called every day to stand with each other in all the other storms we face in our lives. But that’s the easy part. We’re also called to stand with those that aren’t in this room right now. Jesus and his disciples were going to the other side of the lake when all this happened. They were going to the people that weren’t part of their tribe. They were going to the people on the margins.
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Reckless Love of God (A Sermon for Trinity Sunday)
27/05/2018 Duración: 20minOh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God Oh, it chases me down, fights ‘til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, still You give Yourself away Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
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This is Our Altar Call (A Sermon for Easter 7B)
13/05/2018 Duración: 14minIn First John, and throughout the Gospel of John, eternal life doesn’t just mean life beyond the grave. Eternal life isn’t just talking about what happens after we die, but instead it is about how we live now - before we die - once we put our faith in Christ. Eternal life is full life, everlasting life, changed life, now and in the world to come.
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Bentrup, Germany (A Sermon for Easter 6B)
06/05/2018 Duración: 16minThis is the faith that overcomes the world: God’s love brings healing out of brokenness. God’s love brings light out of darkness. God’s love brings day out of night. God’s love brings life out of death.
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Plenty of Work for Love to Do (A Sermon for Easter 5B)
29/04/2018 Duración: 13minWe live in a world that is broken, there’s no doubt about that. But that same world is precious to God, is loved by God, and is filled with a great many people called to live out God’s love. Because love is from God. And there is plenty of work for love to do.
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You’re Children of God, Now Act Like It! (A Sermon for Easter 3B)
15/04/2018 Duración: 10minYou are God’s own beloved child. Become what you already are. Live into your new identity. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are! Now, act like it!
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God is (Revealing, Healing, Purifying) Light (A Sermon for Easter 2B)
08/04/2018 Duración: 17minGod is light. And walking in that light, being people of that light, will begin to change us. Because the light reveals, heals, and purifies.
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Nobody Ever Gets to Stay (A Sermon for for the Feast of the Resurrection - 2018)
01/04/2018 Duración: 12minYou can’t stay here, because nobody ever gets to stay. So go out and share your story, share THE story. Shout it into the darkness. Cry out into the emptiness. Tell the world that you have experienced the risen Lord… and he is alive and he has transformed your life… and he is still making all things new. Nobody ever gets to stay. So go.
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Nobody Dies Alone (A Sermon for Lent 5B)
18/03/2018 Duración: 17minI suspect the Greeks in today’s gospel didn’t go expecting to talk about death when they showed up to worship. They just wanted to see Jesus. But Jesus talked about death. A lot.