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Sermon archive for category: Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

Sermons by Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

Language of Scripture

Language of Scripture

May 13, 2018 Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

Javier reflects on John 17:6-19. “Years ago, during my first years of seminary, I took my first class in Greek, one of the languages you need to study in order to read ancient manuscripts of scripture. And it was my first fall in North Carolina, which felt an awful lot like summer in Seattle, so the idea of climbing down to a basement classroom to rehearse strange words and grammar and verb conjugations wasn’t exactly ideal.”

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Peace Be With You

Peace Be With You

April 15, 2018 Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista offers three suggestions for a more peaceful common life (Luke 24:36b-48): “We all bear wounds, proclaiming a peace that we don’t always feel. So what might this peace mean for us today? I’d like to offer a few suggestions… 1) turn off your phone every once in a while, 2) go deeper into your own spiritual life, and 3) go out proclaiming that peace into a world that needs to hear it. It sounds so simple, but it maybe some of the most challenging work we could ever do.”

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Maundy Thursday 2018

Maundy Thursday 2018

March 29, 2018 Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

On Maundy Thursday, the Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista reflects on John 13:1-17, 31b-35: “This moment feels like the eye of the storm. Jesus, the great teacher and wonderworker, stops for just a moment before the culminating act of his earthly ministry and simply shares a meal with his closest friends.”

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A God Who Chooses Us in the Midst of the Worst

A God Who Chooses Us in the Midst of the Worst

March 25, 2018 Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

On Palm Sunday, the Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista discusses Mark 14:1-15:47 (The Passion): “It’s all too easy to draw abstract conclusions about the meaning of Jesus’s crucifixion, all too tempting to simply see it as a God who desires punishment… but that is to miss the drama of the story, to miss the fact that before theologians tried to make sense of Jesus’s sacrifice, the disciples found it important to tell and retell and write down the story as they best remembered it.”

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God of Proximity

God of Proximity

February 18, 2018 Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista

The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista discusses Genesis 9:8-17 and the story of Noah: “I wonder what it would look like for us to reimagine God back into the picture, to see God as one who is fully invested in the lives of God’s creatures, caring, grieving, remembering, to see God get down and work with us in the dirt, concerned with how our actions impact the world around us.”

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God Seeks Us

God Seeks Us

January 17, 2021
The Rev. George Adamik describes how we often talk about seeking God, but it is
Keep the Covenant

Keep the Covenant

January 10, 2021
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista celebrates the Feast of the Baptism of our L
The Abiding Work of Christmas

The Abiding Work of Christmas

January 3, 2021
On the Second Sunday after Christmas, the Rev. Carr Holland discusses the dreams

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