This week, we commemorate the newest church festival, The Feast of Creation in Christ, by looking at the creation story in Genesis and the intro to John's gospel. In both readings, we see the stories of God creating everything as we continue to watch that creative power at work in the world today.

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This week, Jesus calls his disciples to carry their crosses in order to follow him. Sounds like a simple task until St. Paul tells us what it means to carry that cross, to love everyone.

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This week, we look at what it means to be hewn from the rock of our ancestors so that we can become the foundation of something still being built around us. We may never see the finished product, but we continue to build it for future generations.

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This week, we look at Isaiah's promise that the church is for everyone, not just a chosen few as well as Jesus catching up to this promise with his encounter with the Canaanite woman.

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This week, we look at two important stories in the Bible of God showing up in or after the storm; Elijah in the cave and Jesus walking on the sea of Galilee. Both are reminders that in our storms, we are never alone and that we are to be with others in their storms.

The Sermon in the Valley is a production of Gutenberg Media and produced at the Patrick Stephens Broadcast Studio.

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This week, we look at the most well known of Jesus' miracles, the feeding of the multitudes. From that miracle we learn that there is always enough to do the work of Christ, we just need to see it.

The Sermon in the Valley is a production of Gutenberg Media and produced at the Patrick Stephens Broadcast Studio.

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This week, we look at four of the short parables that end chapter 13 of Matthews gospel, the mustard seed, the yeast, the treasure in the field and pearl of great value. While these parables seem unrelated, together they show us what the kingdom of heaven is like right now.

The Sermon in the Valley is a production of Gutenberg Media and produced at the Patrick Stephens Broadcast Studio.

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In this week's sermon, we look at Jesus' parable of the wheat and weeds and how we both wheat and weed and that it's not our job to separate the two in others. We are to love others and help their internal wheat grow.

The Sermon in the Valley is a production of Gutenberg Media and produced at the Patrick Stephens Broadcast Studio.

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On this weekly episode we look at the Parable of the Sower, or more accurately the Parable of the Soils, and how we each embody all of the soils at some point in our lives. If we as beaten down, rocky, thorny soil can become suitable for planting, then so can others.

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On this fourth and final of our summer sermon series Follow Me: The Costly Discipleship of Jesus, we conclude with Jesus' call to welcome everyone because by doing so, we are welcoming Jesus and the Father.

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