Service Audio 5/13/2012

Alright, so in response to positive comments made by a few folks out there, I listened more closely to our recent audio files. Wow! They are so much clearer than they used to be: less background noise, less of my children yelling crazy mess randomly through the sermon, a clear stereo signal. About all this, I am well pleased. The drawbacks: 1) the congregation is heard in its liturgical responses but not in its singing and 2) my singing voice is loud and clear and completely solo, which is rather unpleasant. Please enjoy the overall upgrade and bear with my less-than-lovely singing voice. I will work on getting the congregation’s singing into the mix a bit; that would be lovely, especially during the extempore praise.  – Fr. Paul

5.13.12 Full Service

5.13.12 Sermon – Open Hearts to Receive the Spirit

Sixth Sunday in Eastertide 2012 Service Booklet

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Service Audio 5/6/2012

Once again there had to be a bit of editing for this audio. About twenty minutes of the service was spent in prayer for individuals who came forward, so that’s been cut from the “full service” track. God is doing beautiful ministry around here; come worship with us!

5.6.12 Full Service

5.6.12 Sermon – Abiding, Asking, Receiving

Fifth Sunday in Eastertide 2012 Service Booklet

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Service Audio 4/29/2012

4.29.12 Full Service

4.29.12 Sermon – The Church Between Two Heresies

Fourth Sunday in Eastertide 2012 Service Booklet

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Pics From the New Sanctuary

These photos of the new cross above the altar are from Easter Sunday courtesy of Gerard Lange.

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Service Audio 4/22/2012

4.22.12 Full Service

4.22.12 Sermon – Christ with us and We in Christ

Third Sunday in Eastertide 2012 Service Booklet

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From the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

The biblical metaphor for Easter spirituality is found in baptism. The baptized life is a life that is lived in the pattern of death and resurrection. . . . The message of Easter is that the way of being in Jesus, the way of living the new resurrected life is through participation.
. . . We participate in Christ by living the life of our baptism into his death and resurrection. This is a daily, existential, moment-by-moment experience as we choose in this or that situation to die to the sins for which Christ died and choose the life of the Spirit for which Christ was raised to a new life.

Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 146-147.

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Service Audio 4/15/2012

4.15.12 Full Service

4.15.12 Sermon – Jesus in the Church

Second Sunday in Eastertide 2012 Service Booklet

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