Category: Sermons
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Jesus Changes Lives
Rev. Rami AlMaqdasi grew up in Basra, Iraq, and shared with us how his life as a Christian from Iraq has been marked and defined by war. His earliest memories are of fleeing the violence of the Iraq-Iran war, coming of age during the Kuwait War, and of serving the church in Syria as Iraq…
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You Are Enough
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the…
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God is in the Struggle
“That which does not kill you makes you stronger” is one of those “power sayings” that often get bandied about in polite society, a sort of talisman against the challenges of daily life. In fact, the phrase has its origins in the work of Freidrich Neitzsche, who includes it in a list of aphorisms in his…
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Prove It
My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and…
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A Living Wage
How much money do you need to live well? That’s the question that the living wage movement has been trying to address, and lately, it has been having a moment. Y’all have probably seen the headlines—about fast foodworkers in NYC, Walmart employees across the country, small communities of hair braiders and manicurists taking to the…
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Ask Anything: Why Don’t Presbyterians Kneel When We Pray?
When you pray do you: -pray a prewritten prayer, like the Lord’s Prayer or Psalm 23? -did you have to learn how to pray, or did you always know? -do you follow a pattern or use a specific order? -do you say whatever is on your mind? -do you say anything? Or are you quiet?…
Deeper in me than I 