Tag: joy

• Called to Joy: A Christmas Sermon

  Based on Luke 2: 1-14 I might complain (just a little bit) to my pastor friends who serve churches that Christmas, at Monmouth College, comes on December 7th—which means I have to start listening to Christmas music mid-November to prepare myself and my message. There is no Advent in academia, no expectant season of waiting […]

  Teri

  December 8, 2019

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  Christmas, Christmas Message, Christmas sermon, Good News of Great Joy for all the people, joy, Joy as Resistance, Luke 2: 1-14, Osip Mandelstam

• You are Alive: An Ash Wednesday Sermon

  What follows is my meditation on Psalm 30 for our Monmouth College Ash Wednesday Service.  I realize I am slow coming to this, but apparently the zombie apocalypse is a thing. My eight-year-old son came home from school the other day and asked, “Mom, where will you go during the zombie apocalypse?” Hmm….can’t say that […]

  Teri

  February 11, 2016

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  Ash Wednesday, joy, Psalm 30, Weeping may linger for the night but joy comes in the morning, You are dust and to dust you shall return, Zombie Apocalypse

• Following a Star–A Christmas Sermon

  What follows is my sermon, “Following a Star” from our Monmouth College Christmas Convocation based on Matthew 2:1-12. Writing a sermon for me is like following a star that has suddenly risen in the night sky. When I begin this journey, scripture text in hand, I have no idea where I am being led. I have […]

  Teri

  December 3, 2014

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  Christmas, Christmas sermon, discovery, epiphany, golden thread, joy, Magi, preaching, religion, spirituality, stars, William Stafford, wise men, writing

• Remembering that we are Dust

  “As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him.  For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.” Psalm 103:13-14 Two years ago we received the tragic news that a young alum, Andrew Kuebrich, had been killed in an accident while bicycling […]

  Teri

  March 7, 2014

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  Andrew Kuebrich, Ash Wednesday, death, fragility, human life, joy, life, love, tragedy