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Sermons of Pastor Neal McPherson
The sermons listed below were written and edited by Pastor Neal Macpherson unless otherwise noted. The most recent are listed first.

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  • 5/18/2008 pdf - Embracing God by Barbara Grace Ripple
  • 04/19/2008 pdf - Sermon for Earth Day Sunday 2008 "Wholly Community" by Terry Yasuko Ogawa
  • 04/13/2008 pdf - In Praise of Idleness
  • 04/06/2008 pdf - Bread of Empire
  • 03/30/2008 pdf - John's Pentecost
  • 03/23/2008 pdf - The Difference Easter Makes
  • 03/22/2008 pdf - Easter Vigil Homily
  • 03/20/2008 pdf - Maundy Thursday Homily
  • 03/16/2008 pdf - In and For Peace - Palm Sunday
  • 03/09/2008 pdf - The Community of Eternal Life
  • 03/02/2008 pdf - Seeing Through the Eyes of Faith
  • 02/17/2008 pdf - Born Again
  • 02/03/2008 pdf - The Religious Impulse
  • 01/27/2008 pdf - Called
  • 01/20/2008 pdf - Come and See
  • 01/13/2008 pdf - Baptized
  • 01/06/2008 pdf - What Made the Wise Men Wise
  • 12/24/2007 pdf - On Earth, Peace - Homily Christmas Eve 2007
  • 12/23/2007 pdf - "In the Midst of our Mess" - Advent 4
  • 12/16/2007 pdf - Life Breaking Forth - Advent 3
  • 12/09/2007 pdf - Gathering around a Vision - Advent 2
  • 12/02/2007 pdf - "Sleepers, Awake!" - Advent 1
  • 11/25/2007 pdf - What is God Like?
  • 11/18/2007 pdf - Gratitude and the Grace of Dependency
  • 11/11/2007 pdf - The Stewardship of the Whole of Life
  • 11/04/2007 pdf - The Festival of All Saints - The Truly Great
  • 10/21/2007 pdf - Face to Face
  • 10/14/2007 pdf - Engaging the Empire
  • 10/07/2007 pdf - What is Faith?
  • 09/30/2007 pdf - Daring Hope
  • 09/23/2007 pdf - The Broken Heart of God
  • 09/16/2007 pdf - Seeking the Lost
  • 09/02/2007 pdf - Taking the Lower Place
  • 08/26/2007 pdf - The Eighth Day
  • 06/10/2007 pdf - On the Side of Justice
  • 06/03/2007 pdf - Delighting in the Human Race
  • 04/29/2007 pdf - Living by Faith and Not by Sight
  • 04/22/2007 pdf - Earth Sabbath Sermon by Travis Idol
  • 04/15/2007 pdf - What is Christianity by Douglas John Hall
  • 04/07/2007 pdf - A Saturday People
  • 04/06/2007 pdf - Easter Vigil Homily
  • 04/05/2007 pdf - Maundy Thursday Homily
  • 04/01/2007 pdf - Misunderstanding Jesus
  • 03/18/2007 pdf - Loving in the Manner of Christ
  • 03/17/2007 pdf - FACE Accountability Assembly
  • 03/11/2007 pdf - Hurry up and slow down
  • 03/04/2007 pdf - Resisting the Temptation of Melancholy
  • 02/25/2007 pdf - Freedom's Gift and Burden
  • 02/18/2007 pdf - Made For Shining
  • 02/04/2007 pdf - The Turning Within
  • 01/28/2007 pdf - Confessing The Faith
  • 01/21/2007 pdf - The Prophetic Jesus
  • 01/14/2007 pdf - What Time Is It?

    2006 Sermons 3 - A Community of Joy
  • 12/17/2006 pdf - Advent 3 - A Community of Joy
  • 12/10/2006 pdf - Advent 2 - A Community of Peace
  • 12/03/2006 pdf - Advent 1 - A Community of Hope
  • 12/02/2006 pdf - Speech - FACE 2nd Housing Summit
  • 11/26/2006 pdf - The Allegiance that Frees
  • 11/19/2006 pdf - Gratitude Overflowing
  • 11/12/2006 pdf - The Stewardship of Life
  • 11/05/2006 pdf - Reflections for the Festival of All Saints
  • 10/29/2006 pdf - Back to Basics
  • 10/22/2006 pdf - When We Have It All Together
  • 10/01/2006 pdf - A Silence of Complicity and Solidarity
  • 09/10/2006 pdf - Church in the Making
  • 08/27/2006 pdf - God of the Tent and God of the Temple
  • 08/20/2006 pdf - The Fear of God
  • 08/13/2006 pdf - Out of the Depths
  • 07/30/2006 pdf - Signs
  • 07/23/2006 pdf - Breaking Down the Walls
  • 07/16/2006 pdf - Prophets without Honor
  • 07/02/2006 pdf - Lessons in Faith
  • 06/25/2006 pdf - A Crisis of Confidence
  • 06/18/2006 pdf - Revolutionary Patience
  • 06/11/2006 pdf - The Freedom of the Spirit
  • 05/28/2006 pdf - The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
  • 05/14/2006 pdf - Abiding in Christ
  • 05/07/2006 pdf - Life As It Should Be
  • 04/30/2006 pdf - Embodied Spirituality
  • 04/23/2006 pdf - A Cry for Restoration - Earth Sabbath
  • 04/16/2006 pdf - Not an Answer but an Invitation
  • 04/09/2006 pdf - Palm Sunday Homily
  • 04/02/2006 pdf - Speaking of Sin The following are HTML web pages
    2005 Sermons
  • 12/24/2005 - Christmas Eve
  • 12/18/2005 - With God Nothing Is Impossible
  • 12/11/2005 - Dangerous Songs
  • 12/04/2005 - The Things That Make For Peasce
  • 10/16/2005 - God and Empire
  • 10/09/2005 - The Changing God
  • 10/02/2005 - Turn Then, and Live
  • 09/18/2005 - Complainers
  • 09/11/2005 - Four Years Later
  • 09/03/2005 - The Most Impotant Moral Agenda
  • 08/14/2005 - - Speech- The Intersection of Religion and Politics
  • 07/10/2005 - A Matter of Perspective” - Barbara Grace Ripple, Guest Preacher
  • 04/24/2005 - To Galilee Mark Hamamoto
  • 04/10/2005 - The Mystery of Easter
  • 04/03/2005 - That You May Believe
  • 03/27/2005 - Grace in the Wilderness
  • 02/13/2005 - Pushing the Limits
  • 02/05/2005 - Made for Shining
  • 01/23/2005 - Christian Realism The Sermons below were by Barbara Ripple, our interim and guest preacher. * This special sermon by Neal McPherson followed the tradgedy of 9/11/2001
      9/16/2001 Mourning our Losses