2016

  • An Advent Adventure: Mary

    By on January 18, 2017

    12/24/16 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   “My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve, Do not be ashamed, do not grieve....

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  • An Advent Adventure: Bathsheba

    By on December 21, 2016

    12/18/2016 1 Kings 1:11-31 Chris Breslin   Scripture John 1 Matthew 1 Hebrews 4:15     This Sunday’s Songs...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Ruth

    By on December 14, 2016

    12/11/2016 Ruth 4:5-22 Sarah Neff   This Sunday’s Songs Singing in the Land arr. by Mitchell/Littleton Higher Ground by...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Rahab

    By on December 6, 2016

    12/04/2016 Joshua 2:4-21 Chris Breslin   “The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness, not a...

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  • An Advent Adventure: Tamar

    By on November 29, 2016

    11/27/2016 Genesis 38:11b-26a Chris Breslin   “When God’s righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God’s action of...

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  • “Thine Is The Kingdom,” by Malcolm Guite

    By on November 29, 2016

    The kingdom and the power and the glory, The very things we all want for ourselves! We want to...

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  • The Power and Glory of the Kingdom [Richella Parham]

    By on November 29, 2016

    11/20/2016 Ephesians 3:14-21 Richella Parham     The kingdom and the power and the glory, The very things we...

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  • Lead Us, Deliver Us

    By on November 14, 2016

    11/13/2016 Luke 4:1-15 Chris Breslin     God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks...

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  • Forgive as We Forgive

    By on November 10, 2016

    11/06/2016 Acts 9:1-21 Joey Morningstar     Repentance, to be sure, but of a species far less likely to...

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  • “On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus” by Denise Levertov

    By on October 31, 2016

    It is for all ‘literalists of the imagination,’ poets or not, that miracle is possible, possible and essential. Are...

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  • Give Us the Bread We Need for Today

    By on October 31, 2016

      10/30/2016 Isaiah 55 Chris Breslin (with artists and creatives from the Communion Arts Project: Alexandra Harper, Jessina Leonard,...

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  • “Hidden City” by Scott Cairns

    By on October 25, 2016

      And now I think Jerusalem abides untouched, the temple yet intact, its every cornerstone in place, its vault...

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  • On Earth as it is in Heaven

    By on October 25, 2016

    10/23/2016 Revelation 21:1-7 Chris Breslin (with DurhamCares’ Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope Participants: Stephanie Holmer, Sabrina Bowyer, Gary Davis,...

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  • “The Bright Field” by R.S. Thomas

    By on October 18, 2016

    I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way...

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  • Hallowed

    By on October 18, 2016

    10/16/2016 Exodus 3:1-14 Sarah Neff     I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field...

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  • “Our Father” by Malcolm Guite

    By on October 13, 2016

    I heard him call you his beloved son And saw his Spirit lighten like a dove, I thought his...

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  • Our Father Who Is in Heaven

    By on October 13, 2016

    10/9/2016 Matthew 6:1-14 Chris Breslin     I heard him call you his beloved son And saw his Spirit...

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  • To Call & to be Called

    By on October 5, 2016

    10/02/2016 Genesis 4:1-12 Chris Breslin   “If a is called to be a street sweeper, ...

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  • Introducing 2016-17 Pastoral Intern: Sarah Neff

    By on September 30, 2016

    Sarah is excited to be this year’s intern from Duke Divinity School where she is a second year dual MDiv/MSW student....

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  • Called to a Place: Living as Blues Singers, Resident Aliens, & the Creative Minority

    By on September 28, 2016

    9/25/2016 Chris Breslin Jeremiah 29:4-14   “This is kind of how blues began — out of feeling misused, mistreated....

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  • Making Good: Biblical Principles of Creative Work

    By on September 20, 2016

    9/18/2016 Matthew 25:14-30 Alexandra Harper Alexandra Harper is the Creative Director and Founder of Culture Care RDU. A Ministry...

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  • Called to Work: Purpose, Perseverance, Presence

    By on September 14, 2016

    9/11/16 Gen 1:26-28, 2:15, 3:17-19 & Rev 21:1-5, 22:26, 22:1-5 Chris Breslin   Scripture 1 Peter 5:7 John 20:19-31...

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  • God Gets Mad Sometimes (and it’s worth writing a song about)

    By on September 7, 2016

    9/4/2016 2 Samuel 22:1-31 Chris Breslin   “The single most characteristic thing about David is God. David believed in...

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  • At the Gate of Our Hearts

    By on August 31, 2016

    8/28/16 2 Samuel 14:25-26; 15:7-14 Rev. Matt Orth   Matt Orth lives in NC with his wife, his two...

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  • Take Us, O Lord. Break Us, O Lord.

    By on August 22, 2016

    8/21/16 2 Samuel 11:1-17; 12:1-7 Chris Breslin   “…to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost...

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  • Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?

    By on August 15, 2016

    8/14/16 2 Samuel 9 Suvya Carroll & Greg Little “Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when...

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  • Dancing, Disappointment & the Second Person God

    By on August 9, 2016

    8/7/14 2 Samuel 7:18-29 Chris Breslin   “Consider that the first time someone spoke of God in the third...

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  • A Weak King

    By on August 3, 2016

    7/31/16 2 Samuel 3:17-39 Chris Breslin   “True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including...

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  • Sad, Sad Song

    By on July 27, 2016

    7/24/16 2 Samuel 2:17-27 Chris Breslin   “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,...

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  • Unreasonable Generosity

    By on July 27, 2016

    7/17/16 1 Samuel 30 Stephanie Holmer   Scripture Psalm 22 Psalm 23 1 Samuel 22:2 MSG   This Sunday’s...

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  • A Frayed Bundle of the Living

    By on July 13, 2016

    1 Samuel 25:23-35 Chris Breslin   “Abigail on her knees, put David back on his knees.” –Eugene Peterson  ...

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  • Warning: Wilderness Ahead

    By on July 6, 2016

    7/2/16 1 Samuel 24:1-16, 22 Dave Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham native...

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  • Bound

    By on June 28, 2016

    6/26/16 1 Samuel 18:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Friendship…is born at the moment when one says to another “What!...

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  • How the Mighty Has Fallen

    By on June 23, 2016

    6/19/16 1 Samuel 17:1-51 Chris Breslin “Darkness can’t drive out darkness, only light can do that.” –Rev. Dr. Martin...

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  • Better Call David

    By on June 16, 2016

    6/12/16 1 Samuel 16:14-23 Chris Breslin “A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do...

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  • Sandcastles & Paper Tigers

    By on June 6, 2016

    6/5/2016 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Chris Breslin Scripture 1 Samuel 2:10 Luke 15:11-32 Matthew 26:39 1 Samuel 10:6 Philippians 3:7-8...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Creation and the Coming King

    By on May 31, 2016

    5/29/2016 Austin Wilson Psalm 96 “God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.” –W.H. Auden...

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  • The God of Peace (Trinity Sunday)

    By on May 25, 2016

    5/22/2016 Chris Breslin 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 “An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying...

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  • The Friendly Ghost (Pentecost)

    By on May 16, 2016

    5/15/2016 Chris Breslin John 14:15-31 “The Spirit is the shy member of the Trinity. He always points to Jesus.”...

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  • The Gift-giving King (Ascension)

    By on May 9, 2016

    5/8/2016 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:7-13 “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in...

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  • Psalm Sunday: How to Live in a Cave & How Not to Have to

    By on May 2, 2016

    5/1/2016 Matt Hoffman Psalm 70 The aim of every and indeed the perfection of his heart amounts to this...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Riffing on God’s Love

    By on April 25, 2016

    4/24/2016 Joey Morningstar Psalm 136 Resonant Witness ed. Jeremy Begbie & Steven Guthrie Resounding Truth by Jeremy Begbie Creator...

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  • Walk this Way: Resurrection, Scripture and Eating with Jesus

    By on April 11, 2016

    4/10/16 Mike Boone Luke 24:13-35 “You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.” -Craig Finn from...

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  • Can These Bones Live?

    By on April 5, 2016

    4/3/16 Chris Breslin Mark 16:1-8 “We interpret Scripture rightly only when we read it in light of the resurrection,...

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  • The Once & Future Gardener

    By on March 28, 2016

    3/27/16 Chris Breslin John 20:1-18   “Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward...

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  • Blessings On The Coming Kingdom

    By on March 21, 2016

    3/20/16 Chris Breslin Mark 11:1-11   The Donkey G.K. Chesterton   When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew...

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  • Looking to the Kingdom

    By on March 14, 2016

    3/13/16 Joe Longarino Mark 13:1-27   The Coming R.S. Thomas And God held in his hand A small globe. Look...

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  • (Not) Far From God’s Kingdom

    By on March 8, 2016

    3/6/16 Chris Breslin Mark 12:28-44   Flickering Mind Denise Levertov   Lord, not you, it is I who am...

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  • To God What is God’s

    By on March 1, 2016

    2/28/16 Joey Morningstar Mark 12:13-17   From Thee to Thee Solomon Ibn Gabirol   When all within is dark,...

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  • Teacher, I Want To See

    By on February 22, 2016

    2/21/16 Chris Breslin Mark 10:32-52 Lightenings (xii) Seamus Heaney   And lightening? One meaning of that Beyond the usual...

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  • The Impossible Good News

    By on February 15, 2016

    2/14/16 Chris Breslin Mark 10:17-31 The Place Where We Are Right by Yehuda Amichai   From the place where...

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  • Sabbath : Feasting

    By on February 9, 2016

    2/7/16 Chris Breslin Exodus 16 “Sabbath” by Amy Imbody Sabbath: You make demands upon my heart, upon my hands,...

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  • Sabbath: Embracing

    By on February 1, 2016

    1/31/16 Joey Morningstar Ezekiel 20:10-17   “Embrace” by Gregory Orr With their embrace They chose Each other, Which is...

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  • Sabbath: Resting [J.R. Briggs]

    By on January 18, 2016

    1/17/16 JR Briggs Exodus 20:1-17,Hebrews 4:1,6-9 J.R. Briggs of Ecclesia Network & Renew Community J.R. Briggs serves as Cultural...

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  • Sabbath: Ceasing

    By on January 11, 2016

    1/10/16 Chris Breslin Genesis 2:1-4, Exodus 5 Testimony by Nate Hood (27:50)   “God rested! God enjoyed a work...

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  • A New Year’s Rest-olution

    By on January 5, 2016

    1/3/16 Chris Breslin Psalm 23 “It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the...

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