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SERMON:: How Do We Know?

April 12, 2020purplespeaking123 Leave a comment

Click here for an audio only version. Click here for the video version. Click here for the video version of the prayer, Praise for a Pandemic.  The words are included in the audio version and the video is included in the written text here.  It is quite beautiful and profound. Brooke has included this music … Continue reading SERMON:: How Do We Know?

#contemplative2019 :: breathe

June 12, 2019purplespeaking123 1 Comment

“Breathe it all in. Love it all out.” Mary Oliver Personal photo:  sunset over the SLC valley taken from my balcony

Sermon : HOLY LOVE

May 26, 2019purplespeaking123 1 Comment

Deuteronomy 6: 1-9 (click here for link to read text) Energy, imagination, intelligence, and today the word is love. • Every one of those words is used in our ordination and installation services every pastor, elders, deacons and our congregations vow to uphold. There are a kazillion different ways to preach about love. In a … Continue reading Sermon : HOLY LOVE

#contemplative2018 :: force

April 12, 2018purplespeaking123 2 Comments

"… For there is a Force of love moving through the universe That holds us fast and will never let us go." --- Saint Julian of Norwich (c.a. 1342 -1416)    

Sermon :: John 3:16-17 (RRPV…Revised Rev Purple Version)

March 11, 2018purplespeaking123 Leave a comment

John 3: 14-21 (NB: These verses are a part of the Nicodemus story and are Jesus' answer to Nicodemus' questions.)  For those of you who follow notable preachers, Barbara Brown Taylor falls into that category. She had been invited to speak at a church in Alabama and asked the minister what he wanted her to … Continue reading Sermon :: John 3:16-17 (RRPV…Revised Rev Purple Version)

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