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Singing in the dark, in the rubble
There are stories in scripture that feel far away—ancient, dusty, written from a context for which we have to dig for an ability to...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Jun 45 min read
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Be Aware and Choose
God of mind and spirit, of muscle and bone We come together because we need you, We need each other, And we need to hear your word. And...
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May 277 min read
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Costly Love
In the name of the God who knelt to wash our feet, who chose the cross instead of revenge, and who calls us still to love like that....

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 215 min read
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The Shepherd calls us back to life
We hear this morning of a resurrection story. This time it is not Jesus, or Lazarus, or Jairus’s daughter raised from the dead, it is a...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 135 min read
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Meeting us at the fire
I love a campfire. I have a plethora of my own memories and stories from campfires on the beaches on the other side of Lake Superior when...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 75 min read
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A God who cannot be doubted is not worth believing in.
God of all Wisdom-- We come together because we need you, Because we need each other, And because we need to hear your Word. And if we...
John Austin
Apr 305 min read
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Nothing prevents God, Alleluia!
Twelve years ago this week, I was in a production of the musical Godspell. If you’re not familiar, Godspell is a musical about the life...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Apr 305 min read
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Preparing to Lose Jesus
Today, we receive a story that exists in some format or other throughout all four of the Gospels. The story of a woman, anointing Jesus...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Apr 96 min read
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Jesus our Mother Hen
When I was going through the discernment process, which is church speak for the communal way an individual determines if they are...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Mar 186 min read
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Lent 1 and Ash Wednesday reflection
One of my favorite ways that I have heard sin talked about is less about things you’ve done, thoughts you’ve had, that made us good or...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Mar 113 min read
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Do the thing, all y’all, with grace…
We pick up today where we left off with last week’s Gospel. We heard the first half of the sermon on the plain, where Jesus offers...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 266 min read
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Yikes, We’ve accepted the status quo, when we could have the kingdom…
God of blessing and woe, disturbing the deadly order of the world: give us faith tested in poverty, hunger for what really satisfies,...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 186 min read
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Sermon for the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany
God of all purpose and all meaning, We come together because we need you And we need each other, And we need to hear your word. And if we...
John Austin
Feb 116 min read
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Two turtle doves
One of the greatest gifts we have in Scripture—perhaps because it is good literature, or it can be read or interpreted in a multitude of...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 46 min read
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Prophesy fulfilled in our hearing
Friends, it is so good to be back with you. This is a wild time to return to you all, and I am so grateful. If you are not aware, much of...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Jan 295 min read
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Sermon for 2nd Sunday in Epiphany, January 19, 2025
God be in our head, and in our understanding. God be in our eyes, and in our looking. God be in our mouth, and in our speaking. God be in...
John Austin
Jan 294 min read
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Sermon for Trinity Episcopal-Houghton, January 5, 2025
Open our hearts, O Spirit. open our minds and our spirits. Let us use what you have given us. Let us trust what you have shown us. Let us...
Sherry Mattson
Jan 296 min read
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The Prophetic Communion of Elizabeth and Mary
While I never made an official announcement at the beginning of this Advent season, you may have seen in our bulletin or email, that...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Dec 17, 20246 min read
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Fear Not
If you have sat near the kiddos in our service or been to a fellowship hour in the last few weeks, you may have noticed that my kiddo,...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Dec 4, 20245 min read
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Christ the King
This week, we celebrate the last Sunday of ordinary time in the church calendar. Next week, we will begin a new church year, with the...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Nov 27, 20245 min read
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