We have many of Rev. Kemler’s sermons in audio form, going back 12 years now. Click on the links to play the sermons in your browser (in a new window); click the triangle next to a year for links to that year’s sermons.
We have transcribed a few score of Rev. Kemler’s sermons (and a few from guest ministers); these go back 15 years. Again, click the triangle next to Transcripts for the links.
2021
June |
13 Bridging ( YouTube ) |
06 Emerging ( YouTube ) |
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May |
30 Memorializing the Fallen ( audio; YouTube ) |
23 Stories Thin and Thick ( audio; YouTube ) |
09 How to Hold the Deeper Stories ( audio; YouTube ) |
02 We’re All a Little Broken and We All Belong ( audio; video: the Singing Ministers; YouTube ) |
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April |
25 Becoming ( audio, Li Kynvi; video: How to meditate, Li Kynvi; YouTube ) |
18 Never Finished, Always Enough ( audio; YouTube ) |
04 Easter: We Rise ( audio – Li Kynvi; audio –Elea Kemler; YouTube ) |
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March |
21 What Will We Carry Forward? ( audio; YouTube ) |
07 The Light of Change ( audio; YouTube ) |
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February |
28 Beginning with the End in Mind ( audio; YouTube ) |
07 Beautiful, Broken, and Real ( audio; YouTube ) |
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January |
24 Both, Between, and Neither (Li Kynvi) ( audio; YouTube ) |
24 Hineni (audio; YouTube ) |
17 Our Better Angels (audio; YouTube ) |
10 What To Tell the Children (audio; YouTube ) |
03 A New Word for a New Year (audio; YouTube ) |
December |
05 Thirty-first: (audio; YouTube ) |
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November |
22 Thirtieth: (YouTube ) |
08 Twenty-ninth: (YouTube ) |
01 Twenty-eighth: (YouTube ) |
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October |
18 Twenty-seventh: (audio; YouTube ) |
11 Twenty-sixth: (audio; YouTube ) |
04 Twenty-fifth: (audio; YouTube ) |
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September |
27 Twenty-fourth: (audio; YouTube ) |
20 Twenty-third: (audio; YouTube ) |
13 Twenty-second: (audio; YouTube ) |
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August |
23 Twenty-first: (audio; YouTube ) |
16 Twentieth: (audio; YouTube ) |
02 Nineteenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
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July |
19 Eighteenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
12 Seventeenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
05 Sixteenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
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June |
21 Fifteenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
14 Fourteenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
07 Thirteenth (Alison Chase): (audio; YouTube ) |
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May |
31 Twelfth: (audio; YouTube ) |
24 Eleventh: (audio; YouTube ) |
17 Tenth: (audio; YouTube ) |
10 Ninth: (audio; YouTube ) |
03 Eighth: (audio; YouTube ) |
April |
26 Seventh: (audio; YouTube ) |
19 Sixth: Three Ministers Walk Into a Deli (audio; YouTube ) |
12 Fifth virtual church service (audio; YouTube ) |
05 Fourth virtual church service (audio; YouTube ) |
March |
29 Third virtual church service (audio; YouTube ) |
22 Second virtual church service (YouTube ) |
15 FPCoG’s first virtual church service (YouTube ) |
08 Mend and Repair (Rev. Mary Margaret Earl) (audio) |
01 Five Things Not to Believe (audio) |
February |
23 Feed Your Enemy’s Children; Learn Their Word for Home (audio) |
16 Be Generous in Your Dreaming (audio) |
09 Blessed Are the Forgotten, the Unrepresented, and the Kind (audio) |
02 Patience Is More Than A Virtue (Nancy Baker) (audio) |
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January |
26 The Place Where I Stand (audio) |
19 Braver Together (audio) |
12 To Hope Is to Give Yourself to the Future (audio) |
05 Beautiful in the Inches (audio) |
December |
24 A Pinhole of Light (transcript)(Autumn Sandrom’s Moth story) |
15 In Defiance, In Hope, In Delight, In Gladness (audio) |
08 Refections on a Superhero Peace Candle (Eric Elbot) (audio); Undone and Imperfect, Alive and Filled with Grace (Rev. Kemler) (audio) |
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November |
17 Vulnerability is the Path, Courage is the Light (audio) |
10 The Way of The Heart (Marisa Benson) (audio) |
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October |
20 These Fleeting Temples We Make Together (audio) |
13 On Behalf of Life (audio; transcript) |
06 Start Over, Always Start Over (audio) |
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September |
29 In This Autumn Light, There Is a Path for Beginning Again (audio) |
22 The Thread That Runs Between Us (audio; transcript) |
15 The No Becoming Yes (audio; transcript) |
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June |
02 Gone to the Fields to Be Lovely (audio) |
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May |
19 The Place We Stand on the Days our Feet are Sore (audio) |
12 Kiss This Beautiful, Holy Ground (audio) |
05 Perpetual Becoming (Marisa Benson) (audio) |
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April |
28 Restoring a Cemetery in Bialystock (Josh & Amy Degan) (audio; Bialystok Cenetery Restoration) |
21 The Doors of Hope (audio) |
14 Living at the Edge of Our Imaginations (audio; transcript) |
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March |
24 Radical Hospitality: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (audio; transcript; Fr. Boyle’s speech) |
17 Larger Worlds Than We Can Imagine (audio) |
10 Loaves, Fishes, and My Grandmother’s Cookies (audio) |
03 Loved into Being (audio [partial — missing the last 1–2 min.]; transcript) |
February |
24 The Fibrillating Heart of the World (audio | transcript) |
17 UU Faith (Jane Thickstun) (audio) |
10 The Kindness Which Sustains This Beautiful, Aching World (audio) |
03 Faithful to Living (audio) |
January |
13 Flesh and Blood and Bone and Spirit (audio | transcript) |
06 How to Give Yourself to This World (audio) |
December |
24 The Beautiful, Aching Work of Repair (audio | transcript) |
16 The Joy that Finds Us So Ready and So Unprepared (audio) |
09 Shall We Cross Over? (audio) |
02 Blessing the Way (audio | transcript) |
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November |
25 Coming Home to Ourselves (Marisa Benson) (audio) |
11 Carbonated Holiness: How Stories and Laughter Save Us Over and Over Again (audio) |
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October |
28 Reflections (Steve Lieman — Lisa Girolamo) |
21 Silver Linings (Matthew Dicks) (audio) |
14 The Mightiest Word (audio) |
07 Inside the Quiet Places of Your Heart (audio) |
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September |
30 Always Hope (audio) |
23 Let the Space in My Heart Be Open (audio) |
16 Each of Us Is More (audio) |
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June |
17 Love the Hell Out of this World (Matt Meyer) (audio) |
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May |
27 Keep That as a Smooth Stone (audio) |
20 Reflections on international resettlement by Laura Wool, Rogers Muyanja |
13 A Great and Common Tenderness (audio) |
06 Awakening (Nick Maciel) (audio) |
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April |
29 Coming of Age: Credo statements (in Members area) by Julia Hudson, Olivia Logan, Isabel Stanley-Kemler, Sarah Hudson, Sarah Stram, Trudy Burnham, Jai Santoro. |
22 Coming of Age: Credo statements (in Members area) by Jacob Podsiadlo, Luke Benedict, Trent Tessier, Cameron Hadland, Ivan Sturm, Jacob Tessier, Izzy Conners. |
15 Critical Yeast (audio) |
08 Infinity Calling Us Forth (audio) |
01 Roll Away That Stone (audio) |
March |
25 Youth Service: reflections by Haley Watson, Lara Hill, Sara Woods |
18 This Can Happen Anywhere: What Love Can Do (audio) |
11 A Thousand Prayers of Hope (audio) |
04 Love Makes Us Brave (audio) |
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February |
25 Holding Hands and Climbing (Rev. Elea Kemler, read by Alyssa Dallas) (audio) |
18 Fog, Dust, and Moving Forward(audio) |
11 On Blessing(audio) |
04 Systemic and Systematic (Sarah Iacobucci); Walking Each Other Home, Remix (Alison Chase) |
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January |
28 The Ground of Our Hope (audio | transcript) |
21 365 Acts of Hope(audio) |
14 The Redemptive Power of Love (Not an Easy Assignment)(audio) |
07 Choose a Strong Word (audio) |
December |
24 Love Intentionally, Extravagantly(audio) |
17 Joy is an Act of Resistance, and Singing Too(audio) |
10 Reading in Two Voices: God Gave Me a Word by Amy Petrie ShawSermon: Four Essential Things (Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (audio) |
03 Keep Turning Your Face Toward This Earth( transcript ) |
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November |
12 Stories of Hope (Laura Wagner)( audio ) |
05 The Difficult Angel Who Has Chosen You( audio — partial | transcript ) |
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October |
29 Remembering William Perry Brandt (Ellen Brandt)( audio | transcript ) |
22 Kind World Continues( audio ) |
15 Kind World( audio ) |
08 This Tender Thread( audio | transcript ) |
01 Still Becoming Able( audio | transcript ) |
September |
24 The Holy Work of Showing Up for Life( audio ) |
17 A Tender Teaching( audio | transcript ) |
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June |
04 Wake Up, Give Thanks, Sing |
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May |
14 What to Tell the Children |
07 All of Us Need All of Us to Make It |
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April |
23 Jewels of Gratitude |
16 Keep Room for the Unimaginable |
09 The Universe Speaks with the Vocabulary of Peace |
02 Youth sermons: Jon Frey, Ian Peterson, Eleanor Keydel, Will Premru, Kira Hill |
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March |
26 Building That World of Which We Dream |
19 Blessed Are We |
12 Every Hour. Even Here. Even Now. |
05 Out of a Great Need |
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February |
19 The We of Me |
12 Nevertheless, We Persist |
05 The Time Has Chosen Us |
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January |
29 We Can Do Hard Things |
22 Reflections on the Kigali Reading Center (Parfait Gasana) |
15 What if the Mightiest Word is Love |
08 How Brightness Makes a Home in You |
December |
24 (transcript) Something New Is Trying to Get Itself Born |
11 Joy Strewn All Around |
04 How We Bear the Light |
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November |
13 We’re All Just Walking Each Other Home |
06 Love and Grace Bat Last |
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October |
23 This is the Sound of All of Us |
16 Open to the Stars and Weather |
09 Clumsy Transformations |
02 Active Hope: A New Story for a New Year |
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September |
25 Our Project (Rev. Aaron Stockwell) | Gather the Sparks (Rev. Elea Kemler) |
18 More Beautiful for Having Been Broken ( audio | transcript ) |
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June |
19 An Invisible Thread: A Farewell Sermon (Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (audio | transcript) |
05 If You Want God to Laugh, Make Plans (Rev. Elea Kemler) |
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May |
29 Listening as an Act of Love: The Stories that Heal, Transform and Bring Us Home |
15 Chalice Lighting (Rev. Elea Kemler)You Say Hello... (Almost-nearly-but-not-quite-yet-Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (transcript) |
08 Litany of Endearments (Rev. Lilia Cuervo) |
01 Three sermonettes: It Was Designed That Way (Sarah Iacobucci); Building a Moral Compass (Jack Wool); Where Do We Go from Here (Steve Boczenowski) |
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April |
24 Holy Envy (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister) |
17 Small (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister) |
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March |
27 The Limits of Our Senses (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister): audio | transcript |
20 The Paradox of Generosity & Scarcity (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister): audio | transcript |
13 A Great Cloud of Witnesses (Matt Meyer) |
06 The Work (in Progress) Written by Rev. Peter Boullata and originally delivered at the ordination of Rev. Aaron Stockwell. Delivered today by Gregg Baker, Chair of the FPCoG Joint Board |
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February |
28 Illuminating the Ministry of Joshua Young (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister) audio | transcript |
21 Always Creating, Always Building (Rev. Tom Nalesnik, guest minister) |
14 Redemption Song (Jeanne Nieuwejaar, guest minister) |
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January |
31 Practicing the Art of Losing (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister) |
24 We Stand at a New Doorway |
17 Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Multiculturalism: What’s In It for White People (Ken Wagner) |
10 Persistently, Abundantly, Miraculously the Way It Is |
03 What Ships Are Built For |
December |
24 Lift Your Face Toward the Light ( audio | transcript ) |
13 If We Don’t Believe in Hell, Does It Still Exist? (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) |
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November |
29 Reflections on Making the Way by Walking: Christina Rogers | Marisa Benson |
15 We Make the Way by Walking |
08 Reflections on Veterans in Two Voices: Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister | Rev. Elea Kemler |
01 Reflections on Love and Grief (Frank Sapp) |
October |
25 Imagine a World |
18 Invite Wonder |
11 Everything Possible: On the Fluidity of Humanity (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) audio | transcript |
04 Ten Thousand Prayers, Ten Thousand Paths to Hope |
September |
27 Hearing the Call of Your Heart |
20 Hearing the Call to Renewal: audio | transcript |
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June |
24 Love Is Best But Baseball Is Pretty Good |
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May |
24 On Not Waiting to Be the Hummingbird (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister): audio | transcript |
17 Why We Are Here |
03 Let Me Show You Beauty |
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April |
26 Holding this Earth: Our Gratitude, Our Pain, Our Hope (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister): audio | transcript |
05 A Call to Such Rising |
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March |
29 See What Road Appears |
22 Youth Service Reflections — Anya | Alejandro | Emma | Kaitlin | Brayden |
15 Begin Again in Love (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) |
08 Hope is a Road |
February |
22 Choosing Open Eyes (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) |
08 To Save What Matters Most |
01 Thanks for the Memories (Rev. Charles Gaines) |
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January |
25 Abundance Scooped From Abundance (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) | Always Enough (Rev. Elea Kemler) |
18 Who Is My Neighbor? Rev. Elea Kemler | Rev. Eustace D. Payne Jr. | Charles Bogues |
11 Come With Your Wild Imaginings |
December |
14 The Shared World: Lessons in Joy and (Dis)Comfort (Intern Minister Karen G. Johnston): |
07 So Bold, So Brave, So Loving: audio – transcript |
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November |
30 Two reflections on growing up UU: Chris Funch; Grace Flannagan |
16 Transcript: The Blessing of a Quiet Heart |
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October |
26 |
19 |
12 Nobody, but Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone (Intern Minister Karen G. Johnston): audio – transcript |
05 The Language of Love (Rev. Jeanne Harrison Nieuwejaar) |
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September |
28 |
21 |
14 |
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May |
25 Who Is With Us On The Road? (Laura Geoghegan Kellner) |
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11 |
04 |
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April |
20 |
13 |
06 Four Short Sermons on Courage: Will Frey | Hannah Tellier | Tom Grigglestone | Abbie Clark |
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March |
30 |
23 Invocation | The Giants Are Dancing (Laura Geoghegan Kellner) |
16 Not So Fast — Beyond Loaves and Fishes (Aaron Stockwell) |
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February |
23 On Wonder and Imagination (Laura Geoghegan Kellner) |
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09 Spirituality of Imperfection (Rev. Kimberly Tomaszewski): audio – – transcript |
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January |
26 The Gratitude Project: audio – – transcript |
19 Reflections on service by Sara Woods, Brenna Mayer, and Steve Boczenowski — Transcript |
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05 Waste Your Heart on Fear No More: Reflections on the New Year |
December |
24 |
15 |
01 A Plan for Existence, a Plan for the Sublime (Joel Wool): audio – transcript |
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November |
17 |
10 |
03 |
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October |
27 |
20 |
13 |
06 |
September |
29 |
22 |
15 |
08 |
June |
02 |
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May |
19 A Long Road Together: The Minister’s Annual Report to the Congregation |
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March |
24 |
17 |
10 |
03 Finally To Unfold Again: Spiritual Renewal and the Practice of Prayer [truncated] |
February |
24 Going Deeper, Coming Home: Spiritual Renewal and the Practice of Prayer |
17 Our Song at the Sea (Matt Meyer) |
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January |
27 |
20 Lay-led service for Martin Luther King Day Chalice lighting – Betty Keddy Excerpts from Drum Major Instinct by Dr. M. L. King Jr. – Paul Harter Restorative Justice – Barbara Rich Prison Ministry/ AVP – June Adams Johnson Groton Interfaith Council – Donna Nowak |
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December |
24 |
16 Words for Dec. 16: audio – transcript |
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November |
18 |
04 The Passionate Heart of Joshua Young (Rev. Elz Curtiss) |
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October |
28 |
21 |
14 |
07 |
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September |
30 |
23 |
16 |
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May |
27 Memorial Day Reflections (Ellen Todd) Bless the Poets and Those Who Mourn (Rev. Elea Kemler) |
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06 |
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April |
29 The God Who Knows Only Four Words: Come Dance With Me: audio – transcript |
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15 |
08 |
01 |
March |
25 Reflections (Clara O'Rourke) Reflections (Meghan McNierney) Reflections (Grace) |
18 Over and Over Again [truncated] |
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04 The Open Doors of the Heart: audio | transcript |
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February |
26 |
12 |
05 |
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January |
29 Put a Pebble in My Shoe (Melinda Green) |
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15 Reflections on CityReach (Gregg Baker & Braydon Woods) Reflections on Prison Ministry (Pat Parker-Roach & Justin Holmes) Reflections on Nicarugua (Ed O’Rourke & Clara O’Rourke) Reflections on TADS (Teenage Anxiety and Depression Solutions) (Steve Boczenowsk) |
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December |
24 Life is So Generous: Christmas Eve Message 2011: audio – transcript |
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04 Say the Thing That You Most Need and the Door Will Open Wide: audio – transcript |
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November |
27 |
13 |
06 |
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October |
23 |
16 |
09 |
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September |
25 |
18 |
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June |
05 |
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May |
29 |
22 |
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April |
24 |
17 |
10 |
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March |
27 |
20 |
13 |
06 |
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February |
27 |
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January |
30 Reflections on Fifty Years in Ministry (Rev. Charles Gaines) |
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16 |
09 |
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Dec. |
24 |
12 |
05 Hannukah To Haiti (Joel Wool) |
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Nov. |
28 Seven Gifts (Michael Roberts) |
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Oct. |
31 |
24 |
17 |
10 To Be (Arron Stockwell) |
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Sep. |
26 |
19 |
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May |
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16 |
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Apr. |
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18 |
4 |
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Mar. |
28 |
21 |
14 |
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Feb. |
28 Go Into the Place Called Barren; Stand In the Place Called Empty |
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31 |
24 |
17 |
10 |
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Dec. |
24 |
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Nov. |
15 |
8 |
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Oct. |
25 Laughing in Astonishment, Bowing Our Heads: The Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer |
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Sep. |
27 |
20 |
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May |
31 |
24 |
17 |
10 |
Apr. |
26 Glad to the Brink of Fear (Sue Phillips) |
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5 |
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Mar. |
29 |
22 |
8 |
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Feb. |
22 |
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Jan. |
25 |
11 |
4 |
Dec. |
24 |
14 |
7 |
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Nov. |
16 |
09 |
02 Remembering Our Journey(George Downey) |
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Oct. |
26 |
19 |
12 |
5 Praise the Light That Shines Before Us, Through Us, After Us |
Sep. |
28 |
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