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Our Own Native Language
Beth Braxton
May 31, 2009
Acts 2: 1–21
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INTRO TO SCRIPTURE:
The disciples you will remember were told by Jesus to wait and pray. But as good Jews, living within twenty miles of Jerusalem, they were bound to attend the Jewish festival of Pentecost. Pentecost means “The fiftieth”, another name was the Feast of Weeks. It was so called […]
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Unbinding Your Heart: The Converted Community
Preached by MaryAnn McKibben Dana
March 15, 2009
Acts 2:14, 22-39 (selected verses)
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When I talk to colleagues and friends about what kind of church Burke Presbyterian Church is, I always say that BPC is a church that says, “Yes.” Ours is a very permission-giving congregation. This is by no means a given among churches. A church that […]
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Unbinding Your Heart: The Paul Problem
Preached by Beth Braxton
March 1, 2009
Acts 9:1-19
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I have always been a bit skeptical and I might say jealous of people who have had a dramatic conversion story. I have had some fairly dramatic experiences of God’s grace, which I have shared with you through the years, one being the power of prayer when lost in […]
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Remember Your Baptism
Deryl Fleming
January 11, 2009
Acts 8:26-39
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I want to begin with a game, and I invite you to play along with me. It’s called free association: I say a word and you say the first word that comes to your mind. Ready? Love…Sunday…Christmas…evangelism. Do you know what the word evangelism means? Good news, the gospel.
When the E-vent […]
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The Growing Power of a Grateful Heart
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
October 19, 2008
Acts 17:1-9; I Thessalonians 1:1-10
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“So, how are you planning to do stewardship this year?”
This was the question that came over e-mail this week, from a pastor friend to a group of clergy that I belong to and meet with every year for lectionary study.
We chewed the fat for a while, talking […]
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Mocking Disbelief
Beth Braxton
May 11, 2008
Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21
Do you remember a teenager in your class who was very fascinated with all the experiments in science class and asked all sorts of questions?
Well, such a teenager did a complicated science project on how scientists extract DNA from human cells in order to study them. The other guys in the […]
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