2009 Sermons
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January 4, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Star of Glory
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January 4, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Track Lighting
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January 11, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
Can I Get a Witness?
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January 11, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
In the Beginning
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January 11, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Beginnings
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January 18, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
The Palace of Our Perceptions
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January 18, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
The Message of the Stars
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January 25, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Almost Angels
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February 1, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
What Went Wrong? Norma’s Question and the Deadliest Sin
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February 1, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
For the Sake of Your Neighbor
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February 8, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
All Things to All People
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February 8, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
Linda Loving, Minister for Evangelism
Name That Tune
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February 8, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
The Healing Power of God
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February 22, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Without a Veil
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February 22, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
John Buchanan, Pastor
What about Jesus?
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February 25, 2009
Ash Wednesday
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Not What We Want
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March 1, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m
John Buchanan, Pastor
Beyond Wilderness
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March 1, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Memory
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March 8, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
The Way of Fidelity
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March 8, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Decision Time
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March 8, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
The Challenge of Forgiveness
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March 15, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Following Christ’s Way
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March 15, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Jesus in the Temple
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March 15, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Vespers Meditation
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March 22, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
Boundary-Breaking Love
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March 22, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
This Much!
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March 22, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Katherine Kussmaul
Associate Pastor, Cary Presbyterian Church
Step Out
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March 29, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
For God So Loved the World
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March 29, 2009
6:30 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Change Has Come Change Is Coming
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April 5, 2009
Palm Sunday
John Buchanan Pastor
Fierce Love
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April 10, 2009
Good Friday
Adam H. Fronczek Associate Pastor
Ways We Have Tried to Understand
April 11, 2009
Easter Vigil
John W. Vest Associate Pastor
Change
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April 12, 2009
6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service
Easter Sunday
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Just as He Told You
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April 12, 2009
Easter Sunday
John Buchanan, Pastor
Steadfast and Immovable
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April 19, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
Belief, Doubt, and Sacred Ambiguity
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April 19, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Executive Associate
Pastor
A Touching Place
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April 19, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Poetry or Novels?
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April 26, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Saved by Waste (But It Might Hurt a Little)
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April 26, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Repentance Won’t Kill You (But It Might Hurt a Little)
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May 3, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Easier Done Than Said
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May 3, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Why Am I Me?
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May 3, 2009
6:30 a.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
I Will Deliver
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May 10, 2009
8:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
Intimacy and the Hard Labor of Love
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May 10, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Reckless Love
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May 17, 2009
8:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Frozen Chosen Freezer Burn
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May 17, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Called to Love and Serve
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May 24, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Into the World
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May 31, 2009
Pentecost
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Not Orphaned—Never Alone
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June 7, 2009
8:00 a.m
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
By Water, Not Blood
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June 7, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Cynthia M. Campbell
President, McCormick Theological Seminary
Endless Dance of Love
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June 14, 2009
8:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
Under the Eye of the Clock
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June 14, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan Pastor
Seeds, Planted
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June 14, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The Strangeness of Estrangement
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June 21, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
David and Goliath
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June 28, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Healing Touch
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June 28, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Brian Blount
President, Union Theological Seminary
Not My Area
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July 5, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Madness Over Familiarity
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July 5, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
God’s Almost-Chosen People
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July 5, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Eating at the Welcome Table
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July 12, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
God’s Grand Improvisation
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July 12, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The Waters of Rebirth
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July 19, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joann H. Lee, Pastoral Resident
The Dividing Wall
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July 19, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
A Few Modest Truths
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July 26, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Batman Is No Superman
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July 26, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Broken and Beloved
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August 2, 2009
8:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
A New Longing, A New Priority
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August 2, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
If the Parable Doesn’t Fit, You Must Acquit
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August 2, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Between Heaven and Earth
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August 9, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin Associate Pastor
The Language of Food
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August 9, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod
Executive Associate Pastor
Companion
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August 9, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
Calling the First Disciples: Why Do You Stand There Looking Up?
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August 16, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Wisdom and Intelligence
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August 16, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod, Executive Associate
Pastor
Waken Up
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August 16, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Community Would Be Great If It Weren’t for the People
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August 23, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Sarah A. Johnson
Pastoral Resident
A Resting Place
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August 23, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Calum I. MacLeod
Executive Associate Pastor
The Good Fight
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August 23, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Baptized as God’s Beloved
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August 30, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Do the Rules Ever Change?
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September 6, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Conversion Management
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September 6, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Working
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September 6, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Color, Words, Sounds, and Silence in Prayer
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September 13, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Does It Matter What Church You Belong To?
Why Am I a Presbyterian after All These Years?
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September 13, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Calling Forth New Life
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September 20, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
The First (One of the First, at Least) Christian Revolutionary: Religion and Politics
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September 20, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Finding Space
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September 27, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Alice M. Trowbridge, Associate Pastor
Alive
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September 27, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
Jesus Makes a Lovely Sweater
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October 11, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Job the Patient and Job the Person
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October 11, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Surely You Don’t Believe in Predestination, Do You? Who Decides Who Gets In?
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October 11, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
Feeling Like You’re Being Followed . . .
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October 18, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
Competition or Community?
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October 18, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Sausages on Ash Wednesday: A New Piety and Practice
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October 25, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan Pastor
True Religion
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October 25, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
You Say You Want a Revolution
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November 1, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
A Sermon for All Saints’ Day
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November 8, 2009
8:00 a.m.
John H. Boyle, Parish Associate
When Faith Is Threatened
November 8, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Adam H. Fronczek, Associate Pastor
How Naive Do You Expect Me to Be?
November 8, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The Least I Can Do
November 15, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Truth
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November 22, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Hooray for the Pumpkin Pie!
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November 24, 2009
A Shared Worship Service for Thanksgiving
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
What, Me Worry?
November 29, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Sarah A. Johnson, Pastoral Resident
Prophetic Imagination
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November 29, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
The Work of Waiting
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November 29, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Victoria G. Curtiss, Associate Pastor
Beginning from the End
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December 6, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
At the Threshold
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December 6, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Keep Calm and Carry On
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December 6, 2009
4:00 p.m.
John W. Vest, Associate Pastor
The Gospel of a Madman
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December 13, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Jocelyn C. Cadwallader, Pastoral Resident
What Should We Do?
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December 13, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Rejoicing
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December 20, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
Measured by Love
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December 24, 2009
8:30 and 11:00 p.m.
John Buchanan, Pastor
A Christmas Eve Sermon
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December 27, 2009
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Joyce Shin, Associate Pastor
Filial Piety
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