HEALING TWO DAUGHTERS
May 13, 2012 (Mother’s Day) Mark 5:21-43 How do you read scripture? What do you see when you look and listen to the text? Do you ever ask the question: who am I in this story? Do you ever struggle with the larger public, political meaning of the story? Do you ever go even deeper asking yourself what does this story tell me about the state of my soul? Do your eyes glaze over...
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Eucharistic Evangelism
May 6, 2012 Mark 6:1-13 The story in Mark opens up on a day when Jesus must have been pumped! His ministry was taking off, crowds were coming and listening to his message, he was calming stormy seas, casting out demons, healing the sick and becoming a living embodiment of God’s gracious and extravagant benevolence — and the poor, the vast majority, the 99% were hearing Jesus’...
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COMMON GOOD CAFÉ — Thursdays, 7 PM, University Temple United Methodist
We are creating the Common Good Café, a place for civic discussion as we try to think through and strategize how to take back cultural power from the dominance of unfettered business. Given the political environment that we are actually living in, a time of shattered consensus, and a time of increasing suspicion and hostility between neighbors, how can we promote the emergence of a new political...
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7th Annual Harry and Myrtle Olson International Organ Festival – June 1, 2 & 3, 2012
This year we are featuring different styles of music. There will be something for every musical taste. Friday, June 1 • 7:30 p.m. • Songs of Surin This concert will feature the songs of Stanislav Surin (Faculty, Catholic University, Ruzomberok, Slovakia) which are based on the poetry of French and Slovak poets, especially the poetry of Miroslav Valek. The songs are written in a more popular...
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Life Among the Tombs
April 29, 2012 Mark 5:1-20 Early in my ministry a young couple came to me with a request to baptize their beautiful new-born baby. I was puzzled by this request because they didn’t attend church and I couldn’t imagine what real meaning baptism could have for them. So I asked them and what became quickly obvious was that they really didn’t know and hadn’t really thought about it, but...
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BAPTISM: A Better World Is Possible
April 22, 2012 • Earth Day Sermon. Romans 8:18-25 & Revelation 22:1-5 BAPTISM: A Better World Is Possible They say that the fish of the Gulf waters are diseased and that there are strange new deformities happening. But others say —“oh that’s just a couple strange incidents”. I remember growing up hearing about the miscarriages, deformities and diseases of the...
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The Focus of Our Faith Is Not on the Storm We Fear
April 15, 2012 – Mark 4:35-41. The story is pretty straightforward. Jesus has just finished a long day of teaching in parables: the story of the sower, the story of the light under the bushel basket, the story of the Scattered Seed, the story of the Mustard Seed. Jesus had just finished his first campaign in the Galilee. A campaign of great conflict with the Scribes, Pharisees and...
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Without Batting An Eye
Easter, April 8, 2012: 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:17. To light a candle in the darkness is to say, “I beg to differ”. When the women of the church on 35th Avenue discovered that little Tommy Carlson had muscular dystrophy, and that the Carlson family was shouldering that responsibility alone, they organized a team to go daily into the home, kick the Mom out for an hour or two, and do the physical...
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HEALING TWO DAUGHTERS
May 13, 2012 (Mother’s Day) Mark 5:21-43 How do you read scripture? What do you see when you look and listen to the text? Do you ever ask the question: who am I in this story? Do you ever...
Read More
Eucharistic Evangelism
May 6, 2012 Mark 6:1-13 The story in Mark opens up on a day when Jesus must have been pumped! His ministry was taking off, crowds were coming and listening to his message, he was calming stormy seas,...
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COMMON GOOD CAFÉ — Thursdays, 7 PM, University Temple United Methodist
We are creating the Common Good Café, a place for civic discussion as we try...
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7th Annual Harry and Myrtle Olson International Organ Festival – June 1, 2 & 3, 2012
This year we are featuring different styles of music. There will be something...
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Life Among the Tombs
April 29, 2012 Mark 5:1-20 Early in my ministry a young couple came to...
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BAPTISM: A Better World Is Possible
April 22, 2012 • Earth Day Sermon. Romans 8:18-25 & ...
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The Focus of Our Faith Is Not on the Storm We Fear
April 15, 2012 – Mark 4:35-41. The story is pretty...
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The Death and Life of Jesus Christ
The story begins as Jesus leaves from the Mount of Olives...
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Holy Week 2012
UTemple Holy Week Schedule 2012 Sunday, April 1: Palm/Passion Sunday 9 AM...
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University Temple is a proud leader in ministry outreach to the dislocated throughout this city. Our ministries in the alley, Teen Feed, the Needle Exchange, ROOTS, and the amazingly fantastic Thrift Store, complete with meal, barber and nurse, is as fine an example of what churches ought to be as can be found anywhere. The Spirit of God hovers all around these ministries and pushes us into a future of even greater risk and holy boldness as we build with God a world where everyone belongs and is fed, housed and loved.
This year our goal is to reconnect the joy of our alley ministry with the life and resources of the academy. We are a University-church which means that our spiritual DNA compels us to connect head with heart in a ministry that moves beyond charity into justice. As we bandage the wounds of the afflicted, we confront and convert those systems of oppression that have caused the afflictions. With delight we see the academy (UW) as God-sent partners in a mutual ministry of creative liberation redeeming the social systems of this city.
Great things are going to happen – let’s be bold together!
-Rich
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