Take Off Your Shoes Sermon Podcast By Marie Duquette

This episode starts with an edited version of the children's sermon followed by the Gospel and the adult sermon. 

What does it mean to love the Lord with all of our strength? It may not be what you think.

The greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. In today's message, we look at the connection between one's mind and heart, and how the mind can imagine what the heart desires. 

This is the second of four parts in an Advent series on the Greatest Commandment - SOUL.  According to the Shema, God's people are called to devote to God their whole body and mind, their feelings and their desires, their futures and their failures. This is what it means to love the Lord your God with all your SOUL.

This is the first of four parts in an Advent series on the Greatest Commandment - HEART.  According to the Shema, God's people are called to devote to God their whole body and mind, their feelings and their desires, their futures and their failures. This is what it means to love the Lord your God with all your heart.

A special Wednesday night (Thanksgiving Eve) sermon about saying grace including a reading from Anne Lamott's book, Small Victories.

Jesus warns his disciples about what is to come using an onslaught of apocalyptic images before assuring them that "not a hair on their heads will be harmed...by their endurance, they will save their souls." How are we to hear this today, when harm indeed came to the disciples and comes to faithful people all the time? How does hope make possible endurance through times of trial and suffering?  

Guest preacher and long time member, Rev. Gene Nissen, preaches on family remembrances of Veteran's Day, or Armistice Day.

What do you use to measure the accuracy of social media these days? Do you check the facts, consider the integrity of the author or resource? Do you listen to Jesus as He tries to instruct you? Consider this pastor who is also a research journalist...listen to what she teaches you. 

How rituals of the dead help us celebrate life, ours and theirs.

Where living the gospel meets the life of Rep Elijah Cummings. Who is this persistent widow that changes the corrupt judge?