2017

Advent 4 – Directions For Singing
By Jeff Crawford on December 31, 2017
12/24/17 Psalm 96 Chris Breslin “Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were...
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Advent 3: Lying at Rest & Letting the Pieces Fly
By Jeff Crawford on December 19, 2017
12/17/2017 Psalm 126 & Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Chris Breslin “And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth...
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Advent 2: Landscaping for Peace (and Kissing Babies)
By Jeff Crawford on December 12, 2017
12/10/2017 Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2; 8-13 Sarah Neff “The peace between God and man and the salvation which comes...
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Advent 1: Seeing God’s Face
By Jeff Crawford on December 9, 2017
12/03/2017 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Isaiah 64:1-9 Curt Lowndes Rev. Curt Lowndes is the Associate Pastor of the Gathering Church....
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Get Your Hopes Up
By Jeff Crawford on November 27, 2017
11/26/2017 Romans 15:3-11 Chris Breslin “Advent is an invitation to plunge into the deep, dark waters of our...
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The Practice of Welcoming Children
By Jeff Crawford on November 20, 2017
11/19/2017 Mark 9:36-37; 10:13-16 Meg Hoffman ‘Welcome’, the word is always on your lips, Each welcome warms another...
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Simply Sit Among the Shards
By Jeff Crawford on November 15, 2017
11/12/2017 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin “When we allow ourselves to be disarmed, we become both vulnerable and strong. The...
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Just as Long as I am in this World…
By Jeff Crawford on November 7, 2017
11/05/2017 John 9:1-17 Chris Breslin “To proclaim the Gospel is to proclaim that it is at last possible to...
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Praying in the [King]dom
By Jeff Crawford on November 1, 2017
10/29/17 Matthew 6:1-13 Kate Hamman “The Lord’s Prayer, along with the Eucharist, forms the liturgical equivalent to what...
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The Hospitality of God [Norman Wirzba]
By Jeff Crawford on October 23, 2017
10/22/2017 Luke 14:12-24 Norman Wirzba Dr. Norman Wirzba was raised on a farm in Southern Alberta, and went on...
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Our Gifts Combined: the Fullness of Christ in Our Midst
By Jeff Crawford on October 17, 2017
10/15/2017 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in...
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Be Reconciled: Peace-making as Ecology, Geology, & Hydrology
By Jeff Crawford on October 14, 2017
10/01/2017 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 Sarah Neff “When God sets out to embrace the enemy, the result is the cross.”...
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Presence Takes Practice (& vice versa)
By Jeff Crawford on October 2, 2017
10/1/17 Psalm 46 Chris Breslin “Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything.” –Gordon Hempton...
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The Floor & the Ceiling
By Jeff Crawford on September 25, 2017
09/24/2017 Philippians 4:10-23 Chris Breslin “’This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be.’ That certainly...
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Incarcerated Joy
By Jeff Crawford on September 18, 2017
09/17/2017 Acts 16:16-28 Dewey Williams Rev. Dewey Williams is a minister at Mt. Level Missionary Baptist Church in Durham,...
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The Lord is Near!
By Jeff Crawford on September 11, 2017
09/10/2017 Philippians 4:1-9 “Thanksgiving means giving God the glory in everything, making room for him, casting our care on...
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Third Culture Kids
By Jeff Crawford on September 5, 2017
09/03/2017 Philippians 3:17-21 Chris Breslin Testimony by Bryan Diver & Blake “Slowly, I started to enter more fully into...
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Humility, Even Unto Death
By Jeff Crawford on August 28, 2017
8/27/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian...
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Renouncing Our Righteousness
By Jeff Crawford on August 23, 2017
08/20/2017 Philippians 3:1-16 Chris Breslin “Faith in its decisive act is the collapse of every effort of our own...
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REI Groundwater Testimony
By Jeff Crawford on August 23, 2017
8/20/2017 Stephanie Holmer, Joe Longarino, Nate Hood, Erin Victor, Elizabeth Christenson & Chris Breslin
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A Family on Mission
By Jeff Crawford on August 15, 2017
08/13/2017 Philippians 2:19-30 Chris Breslin A Congregational Prayer for Churches after Charlottesville by Rich Villodas (Missio Alliance) “Hitherto I...
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Fear and Trembling…and Joy?!
By Jeff Crawford on August 9, 2017
8/6/2017 Philippians 2:12-18 Chris Breslin “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though...
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Everything that Converges Must Kneel
By Jeff Crawford on July 31, 2017
07/30/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Chris Breslin “We can increasingly resemble Christ in character and in power by following him in...
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The Impeded Stream Sings
By Jeff Crawford on July 25, 2017
07/23/2017 Philippians 1:27-30 Chris Breslin It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have...
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The Gospel in Chains? [Richard B. Hays]
By Jeff Crawford on July 18, 2017
07/16/2017 Philippians 1:12-26 Dr. Richard B. Hays Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Leave it There by Tindley Rejoice...
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Of Slaves & Saints…
By Jeff Crawford on July 10, 2017
07/09/2017 Philippians 1:1-11 Chris Breslin “All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer...
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Do What?!
By Chris Breslin on July 3, 2017
07/02/2017 Joshua 6:1-20 Marty Childers (Director of Mission, Yates Baptist Association) Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take Us,...
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A Little Lower; Just Right
By Jeff Crawford on June 27, 2017
06/25/2017 Psalm 8 Chris Breslin “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” -Frederick...
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“and the Lord for the body?”
By Jeff Crawford on June 23, 2017
06/18/2017 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Joe Longarino “In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much...
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Here We Go
By Jeff Crawford on June 12, 2017
06/11/2017 Matthew 28:16-20 Matt Hoffman Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take to the World by Tate/Webb I Saw the...
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Ascension Ora et Labora
By Jeff Crawford on May 31, 2017
05/28/2017 John 17:1-11 Chris Breslin “The glory of God is humanity fully alive.” –Irenaeus “To embrace the ascension is...
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Believe into God, Believe into Me Also
By Jeff Crawford on May 22, 2017
5/21/17 John 14:1-21 Chris Breslin “These chapters have often rightly been seen as among the most precious and intimate...
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Go There
By Jeff Crawford on May 17, 2017
05/14/2017 Sermon John 4:1-30, 39-43 Stephanie Holmer Scripture: 2 Kings 17 Ezra 4 Luke 9:51-56 John 1:32 Songs for...
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2017 Ecclesia Network National Gathering & Missio Alliance Reflection
By Jeff Crawford on May 9, 2017
Rachel Breslin, Stephanie Holmer, Sarah Neff, & Nate Hood reflect about their week in Alexandria, VA at the Ecclesia...
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He Calls His Own Sheep by Name & Leads Them Out
By Jeff Crawford on May 9, 2017
05/07/2017 John 10:1-15 Chris Breslin Scripture: Ezekiel 34 John 1:4 John 3:16 John 11:25 John 17:3 John 20:31 Psalm...
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These Things
By Jeff Crawford on May 3, 2017
04/30/2017 Sermon Luke 24:13-35 Jeremiah Dodson “We do not gain a grasp of Scripture’s significance solely through lectures...
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Still Easter
By Jeff Crawford on April 25, 2017
04/23/2017 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin “The church exists for mission as a fire exists by burning.” –Emil Bruner...
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Easter: Why Are You Weeping? Who Are You Looking For?
By Jeff Crawford on April 19, 2017
John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin “The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all...
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Good Friday 2017: “Save Yourself!”
By Jeff Crawford on April 17, 2017
04/14/2017 Luke 23:35-43 Mark Acuff Call to Worship: Lamentations 3:40-57 Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Lamb of God by...
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A Weeping Messiah & A Hidden Peace
By Jeff Crawford on April 11, 2017
04/09/2017 Luke 19:28-44 Chris Breslin “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears. Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve...
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Silent God, Dissonant Prayer
By Jeff Crawford on April 5, 2017
04/02/2017 Lamentations 5 Sarah Neff “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith...
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Sharing Our Words & Wounds
By Chris Breslin on March 19, 2017
03/19/2017 Lamentations 4:17-22 Chris Breslin “What house is it to which the Bible is the door? What sort of...
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The Fast I Choose
By Jeff Crawford on March 14, 2017
03/12/2017 Lamentations 2:6-9, 14 Chris Breslin There is no consolation in the thought of God, he said, slamming another...
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Freedom Through Awareness & Repentance [Christena Cleveland]
By Jeff Crawford on March 7, 2017
03/05/17 Psalm 32:1-7 Dr. Christena Cleveland Dr. Christena Cleveland is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership, Spirituality,...
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Lent’s Third Effect
By Jeff Crawford on February 28, 2017
Lamentations 1 2/26/17 Chris Breslin “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith...
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Beautiful Feet & Where to Find Them
By Jeff Crawford on February 21, 2017
02/19/2017 Acts 16:16-36 Sarah Neff “For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest.” –Rev. Dr....
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Preach the Gospel at All Times
By Jeff Crawford on February 14, 2017
02/12/2017 Acts 3:1-16 Chris Breslin “Preach the gospel at all times, when necessary use words.” –St. Francis of...
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Restorying Our Lives
By Jeff Crawford on February 8, 2017
2/5/17 Acts 17:16-34 Chris Breslin “Be missionaries cleverly disguised as good neighbors.” –J.R. Briggs “Christ plays in...
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Hospitality: A People Blessed by the Lord
By Jeff Crawford on January 31, 2017
01/29/2017 Isaiah 61:5-11 Chris Breslin “For most of the church’s history, faithful believers located their acts of hospitality...
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Healed People, Healed City
By Jeff Crawford on January 24, 2017
01/22/2017 Isaiah 61:1-6 Sarah Neff “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”...
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Ordinary Hope
By Jeff Crawford on January 18, 2017
01/15/2017 Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin “The calling of a prophet is to bring the world into divine focus.”...
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