Chris Breslin

  • Keep Church Small, Local, & Weird

    By on October 28, 2024

    10/27/2024 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Chris Breslin   Slides for October 27, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Woke Up...

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  • The Givenness & Forgivenness of Things

    By on October 7, 2024

    10/06/2024 Matthew 18:21-35 Chris Breslin   Slides for October 6, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lord’s Prayer by...

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  • A King with a Cross

    By on September 23, 2024

    09/22/2024 Luke 22:35-53 Chris Breslin   Slides for September 22, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lord’s Prayer by...

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  • The Holy Here

    By on September 16, 2024

    09/15/2024 Isaiah 6:1-8 / Revelation 4 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love Is Strong by...

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  • Praying Like Family

    By on September 9, 2024

    09/08/2024 Matthew 6:5-13 Chris Breslin   Slides from September 8, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Lord’s Prayer...

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  • Kingdom, Power, Glory, & #2 Pencils

    By on August 26, 2024

    08/25/2024 Psalm 145 Chris Breslin   Slides from August 25, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Sitting at Your...

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  • The Work of the People: Worship Shapes

    By on August 11, 2024

    08/11/2024 Psalm 100 Chris Breslin   Slides from August 11, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Kingdom of...

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  • The Glory of God is Humanity Dying to Live

    By on August 4, 2024

    08/04/2024 John 12:17-24 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Centering Prayer by Porter’s Gate Worship Leaning on...

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  • Existing in the Contexts

    By on July 29, 2024

    07/28/2024 John 15:1-17 Chris Breslin   Slides from July 28, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Death Defying Joy...

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  • Instruments of Peace (Prayer)

    By on July 25, 2024

    Throughout the Summer of 2024, we’re singing, praying, and preaching through the famous Franciscan prayer that we may one...

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  • Broken Imaginations & Broken Bread

    By on July 21, 2024

    07/21/2024 Mark 8:1-12 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Love’s First Act is to Listen by Good...

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  • 3 Easy Ways to be a Serious Businessperson

    By on July 7, 2024

    07/07/2024 Luke 15 Chris Breslin   Slides for July 7, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by...

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  • Hoping to Get Well

    By on June 24, 2024

    06/23/2024 John 5:1-13 Chris Breslin   Slides for June 23, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There...

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  • Pardoned by Our Pardon

    By on June 9, 2024

    06/09/2024 Luke 19:1-10 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Showalter/Hoffman Pass...

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  • Sowing Love

    By on June 3, 2024

    06/02/2024 John 8:1-11 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul by Steele/McCracken...

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  • Isaiah’s Whoa & Woe

    By on May 27, 2024

    05/26/2024 Isaiah 6:1-8 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Isaiah 6 by The Jonah Project Holy, Holy,...

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  • God’s Desire for Everyone & Everything

    By on May 6, 2024

    05/05/2024 Acts 10:34-48 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No East or West...

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  • We Are All Witnesses

    By on April 15, 2024

    04/14/2024 Acts 3:12-19 Chris Breslin   Slides for April 14, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering We Believe in...

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  • Witnessing the Resurrection

    By on April 7, 2024

    04/07/2024 Acts 4:32-35 Chris Breslin   Slides for April 7, 2024 Howard Thurman (Y’all Saints Sermon by Byron Cogdell)...

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  • Making Sense of Sunday

    By on April 1, 2024

    03/31/2024 John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin   Slides for March 31, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Alleluia by Meek...

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  • Making Sense of Friday

    By on March 31, 2024

    03/29/2024 Stations of the Cross Reflection Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering By the Mark by Welch/Rawlings...

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  • What Does Jesus Smell Like?

    By on March 18, 2024

    03/17/2024 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by Highwomen Father, Let Your...

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  • The Difference Between Looking and Seeing

    By on February 19, 2024

    02/18/2024 Mark 8:22-25 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 18, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering From the Dust...

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  • Wildflowers & Everything All At Once

    By on February 12, 2024

    02/11/2024 Mark 9:2-9 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 11, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by...

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  • One of Us

    By on February 4, 2024

    02/04/2024 Mark 1:29-39 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 4, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Breastplate of St....

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  • Robots & Root Canals

    By on January 29, 2024

    01/28/2024 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 28, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Centering Prayer by...

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  • God is Already at Work (and so are you)

    By on January 22, 2024

    01/21/2024 Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 21, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Shall Be...

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  • Cold Coffee, Kitchen Tables, & Being Known Before You Even Knew It

    By on January 14, 2024

    01/14/2024 John 1:43-51 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 14, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There...

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  • (Dis)located Love

    By on December 24, 2023

    12/24/2023 John 1:14 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 24, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Silent Night by...

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  • Advent’s Pointing Finger

    By on December 11, 2023

    12/10/2023 John 1:6-8; 29-34 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering He Comes by Porter’s Gate Worship Canticle...

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  • Coming to Life (St. Ignatius of Loyola)

    By on November 19, 2023

    11/19/2023 Psalm 139 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 19, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Centering Prayer by...

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  • Love, Actually

    By on October 30, 2023

    10/29/2023 Matthew 22:34-40 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 29, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All Ye...

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  • The Difference Between Paying & Praying

    By on October 23, 2023

    10/22/2023 Matthew 22:15-22 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 22, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Take It Easy...

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  • A Crowded Table

    By on October 16, 2023

    10/15/2023 Luke 14:7-24 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Crowded Table by The Highwomen All Ye Refugees...

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  • Vines, Stones, & Fruit

    By on October 9, 2023

    10/08/2023 Matthew 21:33-46 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Our God is Present by White All Ye...

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  • Holding it Together

    By on October 2, 2023

    10/01/2023 Colossians 1:15-23 (the Message) Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Things New by Red Mountain...

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  • Hallelujah, y’all!

    By on September 18, 2023

    09/17/2023 Psalm 148 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord...

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  • Human Propensities & Good Bones

    By on September 11, 2023

    09/10/2023 Genesis 2:25-3:7 & Romans 8:18-25 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering A Way to You (Isaac...

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  • The God of Creation, Labor, & Rest

    By on September 5, 2023

    09/03/2023 Genesis 1:1-2:9 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All Creatures of Our God & King by...

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  • Dogs are Sheep Too

    By on August 21, 2023

    08/20/2023 Matthew 15:21-27 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Breastplate of St. Patrick by Porter’s Gate Worship...

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  • Saved By Grace (& Potlucks)

    By on August 7, 2023

    08/06/2023 Matthew 14:13-21 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Earth is Yours by Gungor This is...

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  • A Church in This Place

    By on July 31, 2023

    07/30/2023 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Slides from July 30th.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace Like a...

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  • Paradoxology

    By on July 9, 2023

    07/09/2023 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Restore Us Again by...

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  • Peace That Surpasses Understanding

    By on June 26, 2023

    06/25/2023 Matthew 10:24-39 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All of Your Ways Are...

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  • But Sick People Do

    By on June 11, 2023

    06/11/2023 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar...

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  • Welcome to Ordinary

    By on June 5, 2023

    06/04/2023 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by Porter’s Gate Worship Project...

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  • Wayfarers, Truth-tellers, Vivifiers

    By on May 28, 2023

    05/28/2023 Acts 2:1-13 & Galatians 5:13-26 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Flourishing by McCracken This Joy...

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  • Vulnerable, Fed, & Led

    By on May 15, 2023

    05/14/2023 John 21:12-19 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Breastplate of St. Patrick by Porter’s Gate...

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  • Deep Roots & Strong, Weird Networks

    By on May 1, 2023

    04/30/2023 Ephesians 3:16-19 & 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Slides from April 30, 2023 Music...

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  • A Good Gate Makes Good Neighbors

    By on April 24, 2023

    04/23/2023 Romans 12:9-21 Chris Breslin   Slides from April 23, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Fifty Miles of...

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  • Resurrection is a Team Sport

    By on April 17, 2023

    04/16/2023 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   Slides from April 16, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Open Unto Me...

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  • The Clap & the Clasp (Easter)

    By on April 10, 2023

    04/09/2023 John 20:1-18 | John 11:17-27 Chris Breslin   Easter Baptism Worship Gathering

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  • The Doorway to Salvation

    By on April 5, 2023

    04/02/2023 John 12:12-18 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Daughters of Zion by Porter’s Gate Worship Project Hail...

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  • Vine, Vinter, & Wine

    By on March 27, 2023

    03/26/2023 John 15:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides from March 26, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Brother Sun by Porter’s...

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  • An Illuminating Presence

    By on March 6, 2023

    03/05/2023 John 8:1-12 Chris Breslin   Slides from March 5, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering I Want to...

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  • A Significant Journey

    By on February 27, 2023

    02/26/2023 John 14:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides from February 26, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering From the Dust by...

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  • The Keys to the Kingdom

    By on February 13, 2023

    02/12/2023 Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love is Strong by Foreman Just a Closer...

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  • Tasting & Seeing the Kingdom

    By on February 6, 2023

    02/05/2023 Matthew 5:13-20 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No East or West by...

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  • Anticipating the Kingdom

    By on January 30, 2023

    01/29/2023 Matthew 5:1-12 (The Message) Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Blessed are the Merciful by the Porter’s...

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  • Kings & the God of Gifts (Tres Reyes Magos)

    By on January 9, 2023

    01/08/2023 Matthew 2:1-12 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar Peace Like a River, traditional...

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  • The > A

    By on December 25, 2022

    12/25/2022 Christmas Morning John 1:1-14 The Message Chris Breslin

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  • Here, Now, God with Us

    By on December 25, 2022

    12/24/2022 Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols Chris Breslin Joy to the World Jam

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  • Joy Springs Up

    By on December 12, 2022

    12/11/2022 Isaiah 35 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 11, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Psalm 126 by Bifrost...

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  • Life in the Peaceable Kingdom

    By on December 5, 2022

    12/04/2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 4, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All You Weary by...

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  • Life is Advent

    By on November 28, 2022

    11/27/2022 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 27, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lo How A...

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  • Upside Down & Backwards (St. Libba Cotten)

    By on November 7, 2022

    11/06/2022 Matthew 13:44, 51-58 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 6, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Freight Train...

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  • A Great Cloud & Tiny Drops

    By on October 30, 2022

    10/30/2022 Hebrews 12:1-2 Chris Breslin   Slides from October 30, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering When the Saints...

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  • The Ministry of Needling

    By on October 17, 2022

    10/16/2022 Luke 18:1-8 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering How Long? by Bifrost Arts What a Friend We...

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  • A Well-Making Faith

    By on October 9, 2022

    10/09/2022 Luke 17:11-19 Chris Breslin Slides from October 9, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Open Unto Me...

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  • How to Win Friends and Influence People?

    By on September 18, 2022

    09/18/2022 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Little Light of Mine by Folk Standard Peace...

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  • Celebrating with the God Who Loses

    By on September 11, 2022

    09/11/2022 Luke 15:1-10 Chris Breslin Slides from September 11, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Father, Let Your...

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  • …lose it, all, right away, every time…

    By on September 6, 2022

    09/04/2022 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin Slides from September 4, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Woke Up This...

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  • Feasting This Fall (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 29, 2022

    08/28/2022 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Chris Breslin + Blessing of the Books testimony panel (Charlotte Ellison, Sara Baker, Stephanie Holmer,...

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  • A Good Day To Be Set Free

    By on August 21, 2022

    08/21/2022 Luke 13:10-17 Chris Breslin Slides from August 21, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Restore Us Again by...

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  • The Weather & What God Is Up To

    By on August 15, 2022

    08/14/2022 Luke 12:49-56 Chris Breslin Slides from August 14, 2022   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Enclosed by You by...

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  • When & How God Arrives

    By on August 8, 2022

    08/07/2022 Luke 12:32-40 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Oil in My Vessel by Traditional arr. Thompson Just...

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  • Breslin Sabbatical Recap

    By on August 8, 2022

    08/07/2022 Pastors Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin share a Q&A about the Breslin’s summer sabbatical.

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  • Trust in the Slow Work of God

    By on June 1, 2022

    05/29/2022 Ephesians 1:15-23 Chris Breslin Slides From May 29, 2022   Music for Sunday’s Worship Gathering: May the Mind...

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  • Where We Start From

    By on May 16, 2022

    05/15/2022 Revelation 21:1-6 Chris Breslin Slides from May 15, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • The Confusing New Newness of It All

    By on April 25, 2022

    04/24/2022 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Slides from April 24, 2022   Music...

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  • From the Depths

    By on April 18, 2022

    04/17/2022 – Easter Sunday Psalm 130 & Luke 24:1-12 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • Those Who Hate Peace

    By on April 17, 2022

    04/15/2022 – Good Friday Psalm 120 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.

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  • A Borrowed Donkey & a Weeping Messiah

    By on April 11, 2022

    04/10/2022 – Palm Sunday Psalm 126 & Luke 19:28-44 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • God Surrounds Us

    By on April 3, 2022

    04/03/2022 Psalm 125 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Enclosed...

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  • Cultivating a Quieted Heart

    By on March 7, 2022

    03/06/2022 Psalm 131 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Leaning...

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  • A Feature, Not A Bug

    By on February 28, 2022

    02/27/2022 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin Slides from February 27, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • Of Good Measure

    By on February 21, 2022

    02/20/2022 Luke 6:27-38 Chris Breslin Slides from February 20, 2022 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgroves’s Y’all Saints sermon on Ann Atwater Watch...

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  • The Fellowship Haul

    By on February 7, 2022

    02/06/2022 Luke 5:1-11 Chris Breslin Slides from February 6, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music...

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  • Some Great Thing vs. A Local Gospel

    By on January 31, 2022

    01/30/2022 Luke 4:21-30 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace...

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  • Jesus’ One Sermon

    By on January 24, 2022

    01/23/2022 Luke 4:11-21 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Hail...

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  • Seeing and Praying in the New Year

    By on January 4, 2022

    01/02/2022 Visio Divina with Matthew 6:9-15 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 2, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • Instead of Armoring Up

    By on December 13, 2021

    12/12/2021 Luke 3:6-18 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 12, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • A Cosmic Christmas (Oak Kids Christmas Pageant)

    By on December 6, 2021

    12/05/2021 Communion homily by Chris Breslin   Slides from December 5, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube....

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  • Always Only Advent

    By on November 29, 2021

    11/28/2021 Luke 21:25-36 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 28, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube.  ...

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  • Creating a Durable Life Together (St. Benedict of Nursia)

    By on November 8, 2021

    11/07/2021 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 7, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Agents of Instead-ness

    By on October 24, 2021

    10/24/2021 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Fruitful Self-Control

    By on October 18, 2021

    10/17/2021 2 Peter 1:1-9 Chris Breslin   Slides from Sunday October 17, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via...

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  • Fruitful Faithfulness

    By on October 4, 2021

    10/03/2021 Romans 1:13-17 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Repost: Kate Bowler at Oak Church

    By on September 28, 2021

    To celebrate Kate’s new book, No Cure for Being Human, listen in to this archived unedited version of The Road...

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  • Fruitful Kindness

    By on September 20, 2021

    09/19/2021 Romans 2:1-4 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak...

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  • Fruitful Joy & Peace

    By on September 6, 2021

    09/05/2021 Romans 15:13 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides Meet Pastoral Intern Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via...

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  • Fruitful Love

    By on August 30, 2021

    08/29/2021 Romans 8:35-39 Chris Breslin   Sermon slides with Blessing of the Books Prayers. Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • Money, Magic, & ‘Illegitimi Non Carborundum’

    By on August 9, 2021

    08/08/2021 Acts 8:4-25 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Can I Be a Witness?

    By on August 2, 2021

    08/01/2021 Acts 6:8-15 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Everything About This New Life

    By on July 19, 2021

    07/18/2021 Acts 5:17-32 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Just One Justices

    By on July 5, 2021

    07/04/2021 Acts 4:5-22 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • “But This is How God…”: Peter & the Spirit’s Jazz

    By on June 23, 2021

    06/20/2021 Acts 3:17-4:5 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • We Give What We Have

    By on June 14, 2021

    06/13/2021 Acts 3:1-16 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • This is That

    By on May 30, 2021

    05/30/2021 Acts 2:22-41 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Gardens, Grenades, & Google-Translate

    By on May 24, 2021

    05/23/2021 Acts 2:1-21 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • New Plans for the Nonviolent Kingdom

    By on May 3, 2021

    05/02/2021 Matthew 5:38-48 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Concrete Good News

    By on April 26, 2021

    04/25/2021 Matthew 5:17-20 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • This Little Light of Mine

    By on April 19, 2021

    04/18/2021 Matthew 5:13-16 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Sermon on the Parking Lot

    By on April 11, 2021

    04/11/2021 Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Beautiful/Terrible Resurrection

    By on April 5, 2021

    04/04/2021 John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • The Beautiful/Terrible Cross (Good Friday)

    By on April 5, 2021

    04/02/2021 with the Gathering Church Psalm 22 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this...

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  • The Poet Thinks About the Donkey by Mary Oliver

    By on March 29, 2021

    On the outskirts of Jerusalem the donkey waited. Not especially brave, or filled with understanding, he stood and waited....

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  • Our Last Words and the Words After That

    By on March 1, 2021

    02/28/2021 Psalm 61 Chris Breslin   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • It’s Both Better & Worse Than We Thought

    By on February 22, 2021

    02/21/2021 Psalm 51 Chris Breslin   Download Oak Lent Devotional Calendar Download the Psalms of Lament Writing Guide Watch...

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  • An Outward-Facing Intimacy (St. Valentine)

    By on February 15, 2021

    02/14/2021 1 John 4:7-21 Meg Hoffman (Godly Play lesson) & Chris Breslin (homily)   Watch the whole worship gathering...

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  • Healing Power with & from Intimacy

    By on February 8, 2021

    02/07/2021 Mark 1:29-45 Chris Breslin & Calvin Gross (testimony)   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this...

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  • The Ministry of Bear-poking & Tooth-extraction

    By on February 1, 2021

    01/31/2021 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 31, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Kitchen Tables & Sea Shores

    By on January 25, 2021

    01/24/2021 Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin   Slides from January 24, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...

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  • Epiphany Means Revelation

    By on January 11, 2021

    01/10/2021 Mark 1:4-11 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • Hope & Joy Collude (Advent 3)

    By on December 14, 2020

    12/13/2020 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   Slides for December 13, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Angels We Have...

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  • The 3mph Kingdom Coming (Advent 2)

    By on December 7, 2020

    12/06/2020 Mark 1:1-8 Chris Breslin   Slides for December 6, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Lord is...

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  • Staying Awake for a Change (Advent 1)

    By on November 30, 2020

    11/29/2020 Mark 13:24-36 Chris Breslin   Slides for November 29, 2020 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come, Thou Long...

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  • A Deliberate & Liberative Rest (Oak Church 6th Anniversary)

    By on October 26, 2020

    10/25/2020 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin Oak Folk Testimonies by Brynn Pendrak, Joey Morningstar, & Carolina Kammel Slides from October...

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  • A People Who Bear the Kingdom’s Fruit

    By on October 5, 2020

    10/04/2020 Matthew 21:33-46 (Proper 22) Chris Breslin   “It is very easy to be servants of the word without...

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  • Confusing Grace: God’s Vast Conspiracy of Enoughness

    By on September 21, 2020

    09/20/2020 Matthew 20:1-16 (Proper 20) Chris Breslin   “All my stories are about the action of grace on a...

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  • Never Forget Mercy

    By on September 14, 2020

    09/13/2020 Matthew 18:21-35 (Proper 19) Chris Breslin Testimony and introduction of Yudai Chiba (2020-21 Pastoral Intern) “Through my memory...

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  • God Loves You & Has a Cross Planned for Your Life

    By on August 31, 2020

    08/30/2020 Matthew 16:21-28 (Proper 17) Chris Breslin   “Jesus gives his disciples a new barometer.” Whereas the God’s people’s...

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  • The Cross & the Mustard Seed (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 24, 2020

    08/23/2020 Matthew 13:31-33 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin   Godly Play at Home Practical Tips and Resources for Hand...

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  • A Persistent Prayer for Humble Access

    By on August 17, 2020

    08/16/2020 Matthew 15:21-28 (Proper 15) Chris Breslin   We do not presume to come to this your table, O...

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  • God Moves on the Water

    By on August 10, 2020

    08/09/2020 Matthew 14:22-33 (Proper 14) Chris Breslin   “Faith is not a characteristic. Faith is not a personality trait....

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  • The Ordination of Meg Hoffman

    By on August 3, 2020

    08/02/2020 Psalm 68:4-6a Rev. Meg Hoffman & Rev. Chris Breslin   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Nothing to Fear...

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  • Forgiven-ness & Sheep-Feeding

    By on July 20, 2020

    07/19/2020 John 21:9-19 Chris Breslin   “Kichijiro who has been the Judas figure throughout, turns out to be Fr....

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  • God’s Breath in Breathless Times

    By on July 7, 2020

    07/05/2020 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Hope sounds like a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   Slides...

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  • The Restorative Judge

    By on June 29, 2020

    06/28/2020 Acts 10:34-43 Chris Breslin “In his appearing we find neither a dualist rejection of the present world nor...

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  • The Gifts of the Ever-Present Christ

    By on June 22, 2020

    06/21/2020 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin   “ stripping off garment after garment, making himself naked, then flashing...

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  • Jesus Grabbed Me By the Wrist

    By on June 15, 2020

    06/14/2020 John 11:1-44 Chris Breslin   “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.”...

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  • The Healing Wounds of Jesus

    By on June 11, 2020

    06/07/2020 Isaiah 53 Chris Breslin   “God’s ‘yes’ will always have the final say over our ‘no.’ God’s justice...

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  • This Is My Father’s World

    By on May 18, 2020

    05/17/2020 Luke 15:11-32 Chris Breslin   “It’s the unlimited power to be there, to be faithful to and for...

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  • Beautiful, Credible Friends

    By on May 11, 2020

    05/10/2020 1 Peter 2:2-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from May 10, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More resources...

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  • Peace, Even in Lockdown

    By on April 19, 2020

    04/19/2020 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin   “When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man....

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  • Do Not Be Afraid

    By on April 13, 2020

    04/12/2020 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin   “I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist, Jesus Christ is risen from the...

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  • Love So Amazing (Good Friday audio version)

    By on April 10, 2020

    Video version available via Youtube Slides of Featured Artwork Presentation Song: “Daughters of Zion” By Isaac Wardell, Erin Rose...

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  • The Fast We Didn’t Choose

    By on March 30, 2020

    03/29/2020 Isaiah 58:5-10 Chris Breslin   “The self-denial involved in the period of Lent isn’t about just giving up...

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  • Hammer is the Prayer

    By on March 2, 2020

    03/01/2020 Philippians 4:4-9 Chris Breslin   “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against...

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  • Transfigurate

    By on February 24, 2020

    02/23/2020 Psalm 99 & Matthew 17:1-9 Chris Breslin   “The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and...

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  • Discipleship for Losers*

    By on February 17, 2020

    02/16/2020 Psalm 119:1-9 & Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin   “Only the cross as God’s truth about us makes us...

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  • Kingdom Values and the Valuable Cross

    By on February 3, 2020

    02/02/2020 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin   “To be a Negro in this country and to...

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  • An Extraordinary Call

    By on January 27, 2020

    01/26/2020 Psalm 27 & Matthew 4:12-23 Chris Breslin   “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us...

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  • Open Eyes & Open Ears

    By on January 13, 2020

    01/12/2020 Psalm 29 & Matthew 3:13-17 Chris Breslin   “Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of...

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  • Songs of Hope & Joy

    By on December 16, 2019

    12/15/2019 Songs of Hope & Joy Matthew 11:2-11 Chris Breslin   “Joy builds on the past and borrows from...

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  • In the Days to Come

    By on December 2, 2019

    12/01/2019 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   “To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep,...

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  • Imaging the Invisible God (St. Macrina)

    By on November 25, 2019

    11/24/2019 Colossians 1:15-20 Chris Breslin   Macrina the Younger  (c. 330 – 19 July 379) was a nun in...

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  • Crucified with Christ in Community (St. Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

    By on November 11, 2019

    11/10/2019 Galatians 2:20 Chris Breslin   Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, underground seminary-founder, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member...

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  • Another Ring (5th Anniversary)

    By on October 28, 2019

    10/27/2019 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally...

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  • A Home for God

    By on October 14, 2019

    10/13/2019 Psalm 132 Chris Breslin   “You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they...

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  • The Holy Everywhere and the Holy Here

    By on October 7, 2019

    10/06/2019 Psalm 48 Chris Breslin   “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”...

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  • The Hope of the Poor Will Not Die

    By on September 30, 2019

    09/29/2019 Luke 16:19-31 Chris Breslin   I say móre: the just man justices; Keeps grace: thát keeps all his...

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  • Gotta Serve Somebody

    By on September 24, 2019

    09/22/2019 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin   “he unjust steward is nothing less than the Christ-figure in this parable, a...

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  • Homecoming

    By on September 16, 2019

    09/15/2019 Luke 15 Chris Breslin   “I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where...

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  • Counting the Cost in the Kingdom

    By on September 9, 2019

    09/08/2019 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin   “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer   “Pragmatism, legalism,...

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  • Teach & Establish (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 26, 2019

    08/25/2019 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin   “Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,...

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  • By Faith

    By on August 19, 2019

    08/18/2019 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Chris Breslin   “How subversive, raising a liberator under Pharaoh’s roof!  She joined their efforts to...

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  • The End is Where We Start From

    By on August 12, 2019

    08/11/2019 Revelation 22 Chris Breslin   With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling  ...

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  • Enemies, not Rivals

    By on July 29, 2019

    07/28/2019 Revelation 20 Chris Breslin   “There are two angels with a (hu)man—one of righteousness, and the other of...

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  • Hallelujah Anyhow

    By on July 22, 2019

    07/21/2019 Revelation 19:1-10 Chris Breslin   “For us, refers to something much more like the human tendency, the...

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  • Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes

    By on July 8, 2019

    07/07/2019 Revelation 12:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Jesus was faced with these same questions, but when he was asked to...

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  • Songs, Scents, & Silence

    By on June 24, 2019

    06/23/2019 Revelation 8:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   “I wanted...

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  • The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd

    By on June 17, 2019

    06/16/2019 Revelation 6-7 Chris Breslin   “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic...

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  • Gathered Around the Throne

    By on June 10, 2019

    06/09/2019 Revelation 4&5 Chris Breslin   “Christians worship with a conviction that they are in the presence of God....

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  • Past, Present, & Future

    By on May 28, 2019

    05/26/2019 Revelation 1:12-20 Chris Breslin   “Christ is the center and at the center.” -Eugene Peterson   “Jesus is...

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  • Can I Get a Witness?!

    By on May 19, 2019

    05/19/2019 Revelation 1:1-11 Chris Breslin   “The imagination is our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see...

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  • A Magnifying Life

    By on May 13, 2019

    05/12/2019 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin   “My mother and grandmother taught me to ignore Mother’s Day (a commercial gimmick)...

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  • What’s So Great About This Commission?

    By on May 5, 2019

    05/05/2019 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin   “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were...

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  • Scary Good News

    By on April 29, 2019

    04/28/2019 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Those who had thought they were alive now discover that what they took...

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  • Evergreen (Easter Sunday)

    By on April 22, 2019

    04/21/2019 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” -Frederick Buechner  ...

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  • Walk With Me (Good Friday)

    By on April 22, 2019

    04/19/2019 Chris Breslin   “The symbol of the cross in the church points to the God who was crucified...

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  • A House of Prayer

    By on April 15, 2019

    04/14/2019 Matthew 21:1-17 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Eternity Already

    By on April 7, 2019

    04/07/2019 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Everything is on the Table

    By on March 24, 2019

    03/24/2019 Matthew 22:1-14 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...

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  • Insouciant Grace

    By on March 17, 2019

    03/17/2019 Matthew 20:1-16 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured...

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  • Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

    By on March 3, 2019

    03/03/2019 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin   “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Elvis Costello (maybe, or David...

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  • Farm Faithfulness

    By on February 25, 2019

    02/24/2019 Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40 Chris Breslin   “The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often...

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  • The Pains of Being Pure of Heart

    By on February 10, 2019

    02/10/2019 Isaiah 6:1-11 Chris Breslin   “Holy ground is dangerous ground. The holy is never, never something of God...

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  • Epiphany & Jubilee

    By on January 28, 2019

    01/27/2019 Luke 4:14-21 Chris Breslin   “A Sabbath is a weekly Jubilee during which the powerful are humbled and...

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  • It’s the Start of the World as We’ve Never Known It

    By on December 2, 2018

    12/02/2018 Luke 21:25-36 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:Because the Night is Long by Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   “Advent...

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  • The Not-From-Around-Here King (Christ the King Sunday)

    By on November 25, 2018

    11/25/2018 John 18:33-38a Chris Breslin   “A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a...

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  • What She Needed to Live On

    By on November 12, 2018

    11/11/2018 Mark 12:35-44 Chris Breslin   “The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what...

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  • A New Life Burgeons

    By on October 29, 2018

    10/28/2018 Isaiah 60:15-22 & Revelation 21:1-5 Chris Breslin   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And...

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  • God’s (Vulnerable) Person

    By on October 22, 2018

    10/21/2018 Genesis 22:1-18 Chris Breslin   “ThroughAbraham and his family, God will bless the whole world. Shimmering like a...

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  • God’s (Vulnerable) People

    By on October 15, 2018

    10/14/2018 Genesis 22:1-18 Chris Breslin   “The church is a countercultural community of discipleship, and this community is the...

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  • Our Wicked Problem

    By on October 8, 2018

    10/07/2018 Genesis 2:25-3:7 Chris Breslin   “Genesis 3 paints the scenario that is the hinge point of history. Humanity...

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  • Introducing & Blessing New Steering Group Members & Pastoral Intern

    By on October 8, 2018

    We introduced and blessed three new members of our Steering Group: Bettejean Cramer, Carolina Kammel, and Sarah Neff. We...

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  • Re-Placing Friendships

    By on September 24, 2018

    09/23/2018 Acts 16:13-34 Chris Breslin   “It’s easy for us to see what our church or neighborhood or city...

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  • A Tale of Two Tables

    By on September 17, 2018

    09/16/2018 Acts 2:42-47 Chris Breslin   “After I gazed for a long time at Rublev’s Trinity these words spoke...

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  • Who is My Actual Neighbor?

    By on September 3, 2018

    09/02/2018 Luke 10:25-37 Chris Breslin   The missionary must be the salt which dissolves in the meat, disappears and...

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  • Prayer & Work & Presence

    By on August 27, 2018

    08/26/2018 Prayer & Work & Presence Psalm 46 Chris Breslin   “Every step an arrival.” -Eugene Peterson   “Instructions...

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  • The Spirit and the Bride Say, “Come!”

    By on August 12, 2018

    08/12/2018 Revelation 22:16-21 Chris Breslin   “I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from...

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  • Hidden in Plain Sight

    By on August 6, 2018

    08/05/2018 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   “…the Holy Spirit takes the ‘givenness’ of what has happened in Christ, and...

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  • The Renaissance Spirit

    By on July 16, 2018

    07/15/2018 John 3:1-21 Chris Breslin   “I am a child of God, one in whom Christ dwells, and I...

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  • Hope-filled & Peace-able, Imagine That

    By on July 1, 2018

    07/01/2018 Isaiah 11:1-10 & Jeremiah 37:1-14 Chris Breslin   “A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God...

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  • Wisdom from the Whirlwind

    By on June 18, 2018

    06/17/2018 Job 38:1-24 Chris Breslin     Sermon Notes Job gives us immeasurably more than a theology...

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  • That Fitful, Fluent Spirit

    By on June 11, 2018

    06/10/2018 Psalm 51 Chris Breslin   Incurable and unbelieving in any truth but the truth of grieving, I saw...

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  • Fill Your Horn with Oil and Get Going

    By on June 3, 2018

    1 Samuel 16:1-13 & Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin “The strength or weakness of means is neither the spur nor...

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  • Over the Bent World Broods

    By on May 29, 2018

    05/27/2018 Genesis 1:1-2 & Genesis 2:5-9 Chris Breslin   The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It...

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  • Breathing Forgiveness

    By on May 21, 2018

    05/20/2018 John 20:19-23 Chris Breslin   “The convex (outward tilted) of the concave (inward tilted) Resurrection is mission, and...

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  • God as Our Witness

    By on May 14, 2018

    05/13/2018 1 John 5:9-13 Chris Breslin   “How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people...

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  • The Water and the Blood

    By on May 8, 2018

    05/06/2018 1 John 5:1-6 Chris Breslin   “If we ask the question, ‘Where might you expect to find the...

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  • This is How We Know

    By on April 24, 2018

    04/22/2018 1 John 3:16-24 Chris Breslin Slides from April, 2018 Scripture: John 3:16 Matthew 25:40 1 John 4:19 Romans...

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  • Ecclesia Network National Gathering Testimonies

    By on April 17, 2018

    04/15/2018 Testimony Katie DeConto, Jeremiah Dodson, Matt Hoffman, Meg Hoffman Ecclesia Network

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  • Called What We Already Are

    By on April 17, 2018

    04/15/2018 1 John 3:1-7 Chris Breslin “In the New Testament, there is an ongoing ministry of reminding.” –Bruxy Cavey...

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  • A Sensible Life

    By on April 10, 2018

    04/08/2018 1 John 1:1-2:2 Chris Breslin “The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless...

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  • Mourning into Dancing (Easter Sunday)

    By on April 3, 2018

    04/01/2018 John 11:17-44 Chris Breslin “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve...

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  • Conversion at the Cross (Good Friday)

    By on March 30, 2018

    03/30/2018 Isaiah 52:14 & 53:1-6; John 18-19 Chris Breslin “Like the lynching tree in America, the cross in the...

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  • On the Water, Through the Storm

    By on March 20, 2018

    03/18/2018 John 6:15-21 Chris Breslin “Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each...

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  • “Go. Your Son Lives!”

    By on February 26, 2018

    02/25/2018 Sermon John 4:46-54 Chris Breslin “Jesus peculiarly dramatizes the dynamics of grace: what is needed by humans is...

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  • Everything Happens for a Reason: a Conversation with Kate Bowler & Bob Crawford

    By on February 26, 2018

    An archived unedited version of The Road to Now (RTN Theology #3) episode. Pastor Chris Breslin recently invited Bob...

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  • A Vintage Richer for the Keeping

    By on February 19, 2018

    02/18/2018 John 2:1-11 Chris Breslin Here’s an epiphany to have and hold, A truth that you can taste upon...

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  • Listen Up! (Transfiguration Sunday)

    By on February 12, 2018

    02/11/2018 Sermon Mark 9:2-13 Chris Breslin “Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one in the world who is...

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  • We Should All Be Wearing Crash Helmets (Epiphany 4)

    By on January 29, 2018

    01/28/2018 Mark 1:21-28 Chris Breslin “…carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all...

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  • Hooked (Epiphany 3)

    By on January 22, 2018

    01/21/2018 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 & Mark 1:14-20 Chris Breslin “The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice, it’s...

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  • Nazareth?! (Epiphany 2)

    By on January 17, 2018

    01/14/2018 John 1:43-51 Chris Breslin “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” –Wendell...

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  • The Voice of the Lord (Epiphany 1)

    By on January 8, 2018

    01/07/2018 Psalm 29 & Mark 1:4-11 Chris Breslin “This is the Epiphany’s first lesson about joy: to rejoice in...

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  • Advent 4 – Directions For Singing

    By 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 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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  • Get Your Hopes Up

    By 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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  • Simply Sit Among the Shards

    By 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 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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  • Our Gifts Combined: the Fullness of Christ in Our Midst

    By 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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  • Presence Takes Practice (& vice versa)

    By 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 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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  • The Lord is Near!

    By 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 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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  • Renouncing Our Righteousness

    By 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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  • Fear and Trembling…and Joy?!

    By 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 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 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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  • Of Slaves & Saints…

    By 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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  • A Little Lower; Just Right

    By 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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  • Ascension Ora et Labora

    By 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 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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  • 2017 Ecclesia Network National Gathering & Missio Alliance Reflection

    By 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 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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  • Still Easter

    By 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 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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  • A Weeping Messiah & A Hidden Peace

    By 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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  • Sharing Our Words & Wounds

    By 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 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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  • Lent’s Third Effect

    By 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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  • Preach the Gospel at All Times

    By 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 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 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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  • Ordinary Hope

    By 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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  • 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: 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The With-ness & Sent-ness of the Resurrection of Jesus

    By on April 17, 2016

    4/17/16 Chris Breslin Matthew 28:1-20 “The best of all, is God is with us.” –John Wesley “Ours is a...

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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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  • (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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  • 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: 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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  • Praying Twice : O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Christmas Eve)

    By on January 5, 2016

    12/24/15 Chris Breslin Luke 2 “Love achieves its creativity by being perceptive.” –Oliver O’Donovan   Advent Resources Light Upon...

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  • Praying Twice: Joy To The World

    By on December 14, 2015

    12/13/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 98, Luke 2:10-11 “The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger...

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  • Praying Twice: Go Tell It On The Mountain

    By on December 7, 2015

    12/6/15 Chris Breslin Luke 2:8-20 Go Tell it on the Mountain by Jane Schroeder (First Things)   Advent Resources...

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  • Praying Twice: O Come Emmanuel

    By on November 30, 2015

    11/29/15 Chris Breslin Isaiah 11:29 “He who sings, prays twice.” –Saint Augustine “To listen seriously to music and to...

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  • The Risk & Reward of The Kingdom

    By on November 27, 2015

    “God gives so that we can exist and flourish, but not only for that, God gives so that we...

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  • The Kingdom Is Like…A Well-Built House

    By on November 16, 2015

    11/15/15 Chris Breslin Luke 6:46-49   “To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.”...

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  • God’s Kingdom is for His Kids (The Kingdom is Like… )

    By on November 2, 2015

    11/1/15 Chris Breslin Luke 18:1-17 “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.” –St. Teresa of...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…the Biggest, Tackiest Party Yet Thrown

    By on October 27, 2015

    10/25/15 Chris Breslin Luke 15:1-32 “Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…A Rejected Cornerstone

    By on October 21, 2015

    10/18/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:44-52 “You thought God was an architect, now you know He’s something like a pipe...

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  • Kingdom Neighbors (The Kingdom is Like…)

    By on October 13, 2015

    10/11/15 Chris Breslin Luke 10:25-37 “Jesus’ story doesn’t define the neighbor; it creates the neighbor.” –Eugene Peterson “Adams’ cover tells...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…a Treasure, a Pearl

    By on September 30, 2015

    9/27/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:44-52 “What do we really believe? I mean, believe in such a way that our...

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  • The Kingdom is Like…a Mustard Seed

    By on September 23, 2015

    9/20/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:21-24 Oak Church’s First Anniversary “Parables are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. They...

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  • Psalm Sunday: God-craft on Exhibit

    By on September 14, 2015

    9/13/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 19 Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Mary Oliver...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Never Shaken, Lasting Forever

    By on September 14, 2015

    9/6/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 125 “All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are...

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  • Dress You Up In My Love

    By on September 2, 2015

    8/30/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 6:10-24 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Colossians, Philemon & Ephesians (NICNT Commentary)...

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  • Home Economics

    By on August 26, 2015

    8/23/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 5: 21- 6:9 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Jesus Feministby Sarah Bessey...

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  • Vacation Bible School Reflection

    By on August 19, 2015

    8/16/15 Chris Breslin Checkout the slideshow with sights and sounds from this year’s VBS!

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  • No Longer

    By on August 12, 2015

    8/2/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:17-32 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Colossians, Philemon & Ephesians (NICNT Commentary)...

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  • The One and the Many

    By on July 29, 2015

    7/26/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:1-16 Sermon Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in...

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  • God’s Open Secret

    By on July 13, 2015

    7/12/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 3:1-13 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Colossians, Philemon & Ephesians (NICNT Commentary)...

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  • Gracecraft

    By on July 1, 2015

    6/28/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 2:1-10 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Union with Christ by J. Todd...

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  • #Blessed

    By on June 24, 2015

      6/14/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 1:3-14 Ephesians Resources The Broken Wall by Markus Barth Union with Christ by J....

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  • Grace to Ya’ll & Peace

    By on June 12, 2015

    6/7/15 Chris Breslin Ephesians 1:1-2 Square Halo Testimony: Sabrina Bowyer Sermon Quotations: “Church is the textured context in which...

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  • Father & Children

    By on June 10, 2015

    5/31/15 Chris Breslin Romans 8:12-17 Sermon Notes “God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn’t just love. God is...

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  • Pentecost

    By on May 27, 2015

    5/24/15 Chris Breslin Acts 2:1-21 “Christians are a polyphonic people.” –Jeremy Begbie   “The thing we would remember from...

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  • Presence = Absence = Presence

    By on May 20, 2015

    5/17/15 Chris Breslin Luke 24:44-53 “His ascent to heaven, like his ascent to the cross, is a journey undertaken...

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  • Psalm Sunday: 139

    By on May 12, 2015

    5/10/15 Chris Breslin Psalm 139   “We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses...

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  • Of First Importance : Death Has Been Swallowed Up in Victory

    By on May 4, 2015

    5/3/15 Chris Breslin 1 Corinthians 15:50-58   “Resurrection is the necessary outcome of God’s intent to redeem his people.”...

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  • Of First Importance : Bearing the Image

    By on April 29, 2015

    4/26/15 Chris Breslin 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 Prayer to the Holy Spirit as Breath by Bruce Benedict Holy Spirit, Holy...

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  • Of First Importance : The Firstfruits

    By on April 14, 2015

    4/12/15 Chris Breslin 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 “Christians do not believe in the empty tomb but in the living Christ.”...

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  • Easter 2015: Of First Importance

    By on April 8, 2015

    4/5/15 Chris Breslin 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 “Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity–unsuspected unfamiliarity, and then contempt.” –Dallas Willard “There was a striking...

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  • Good Friday 2015: Into Your Hands, I Commit My Spirit

    By on April 8, 2015

    4/3/15 Chris Breslin Luke 23:44-56 Sermon Resources “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is...

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  • It is Finished.

    By on March 30, 2015

    3/29/15 Chris Breslin John 12:12-19 & John 19:28-30   The Gospel of John by F. Dale Bruner Further Lenten...

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  • I Am Thirsty.

    By on March 30, 2015

    3/22/15 Chris Breslin John 19:28 “Jesus Christ has brought every need, every joy, every gratitude, every hope of men...

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  • My God, My God! Why Have You Forsaken Me?

    By on March 16, 2015

    3/15/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 27:45-54 “When Jesus died asking questions, we learn that Jesus not only took on our...

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  • Here is Your Son. Here is Your Mother.

    By on March 16, 2015

    3/8/15 Chris Breslin John 19:23-27 “The Beloved Disciple, the hero of the community, is singled out as the particular...

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  • Today You Will Be With Me In Paradise

    By on March 4, 2015

    3/1/15 Chris Breslin Luke 23:38-43 “There is never just one cross on a hill…the whole Christian drama demands the...

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  • Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified

    By on February 18, 2015

    2/15/15 Chris Breslin 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 “The meaning of wisdom is controlled by Christ crucified.” –Richard B. Hays “This...

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  • With Authority

    By on February 4, 2015

    2/1/15 Chris Breslin Mark 1:21-28 “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people...

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  • Follow Me

    By on January 21, 2015

    1/18/15 Chris Breslin Mark 1:14-20 “God acts completely unexpectedly- as he always said he would.” –N.T. Wright “This is...

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  • The Word Became Flesh & Dwelt Among Us

    By on January 7, 2015

    1/4/15 Chris Breslin John 1:9-18 “The core idea of the Christian faith is the incarnation.” -Michael Frost “The Gospel...

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  • Peace Between Two Advents

    By on January 7, 2015

    12/21/14 Chris Breslin Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 Advent Resources Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict God is in the...

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  • Joy Between Two Advents

    By on December 19, 2014

    12/14/14 Chris Breslin Psalm 126 Advent Resources Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict God is in the Manger...

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  • Love Between Two Advents

    By on December 10, 2014

    12/7/14 Chris Breslin Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 Advent Resources Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict God is in the...

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  • Hope Between Two Advents

    By on December 4, 2014

    11/30/14 Chris Breslin Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Advent Resources Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict God is in the...

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  • A Planting Of The Lord: Greatly Rejoice

    By on November 26, 2014

    11/23/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:10-11 “…’joy’ in Philippians is a defiant ‘Nevertheless!’ that Paul sets like a full stop...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Strangers

    By on November 12, 2014

    11/9/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:5-7 Testimony by Haechul Shin “Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the...

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  • Rev. Chris Breslin

    By on November 9, 2014

    I am originally from Daytona Beach, FL, the home of car-racing, bike week, spring break, and also amazing saints...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Oaks Of Righteousness

    By on November 5, 2014

    11/2/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:3b-4 Testimony by Abby Wilson “I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me

    By on October 27, 2014

    10/26/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:1-3a Testimony by Stewart McNaull Related Quotes “The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture,...

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  • The True Story Of The Whole World: New Creation

    By on October 20, 2014

    10/19/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 60:15-22, Revelation 21:1-5 Related Quotes “The end is where we start from.” –T.S. Eliot “The...

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  • The True Story Of The Whole World: Cross

    By on October 15, 2014

    10/12/14 Chris Breslin Philippians 2:1-11 Related Quotes “There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not...

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  • The True Story Of The Whole World: Community

    By on October 8, 2014

    10/5/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 12:1-3; 1 Peter 2:9 Related Quotes “Through Abraham and his family, God will bless the...

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  • The True Story Of The Whole World: Corruption

    By on October 2, 2014

    9/28/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 2:25-3:7; Romans 5:12-19 Further Reading: Sin: A History by Gary Anderson Confessions by Saint Augustine...

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  • The True Story of The Whole World: Creation

    By on September 22, 2014

    9/21/14 Genesis 1:1-2:9 Chris Breslin   Further reading: The Five Books of Moses trans. by Robert Alter The Bible...

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  • Oak Church Commissioning

    By on September 15, 2014

    Audio from the September 14, 2014 Commissioning Service at the Gathering Church. Text: Isaiah 61. Words from Mark Acuff...

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