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Archived Sermons, 2004

Sermons for the Start of a New Year

• December 28, 2003 - "Growing Up"
• January 4, 2004 - "Getting Started"
• January 11, 2004 (Communion) - "Hope from a Word Gone Wrong"
• January 18, 2004 - "Mouths Filled with Laughter"
• January 25, 2004 - "Strength for Going Forward"
• February 1, 2004 - "Mediation"
• February 8, 2004 (Boy Scout Sunday) - "Same Old, Same Old, Until"
• February 15, 2004 - "The Crowds"
• February 22, 2004 - "Seeing Clearly"

Sermons for Lent

• February 25, 2004 (Ash Wednesday) - "Rest for Our Souls"
• February 29, 2004 (Communion) - "Tempted as We Are"
• March 7, 2004 - "Expanding Promise"
• March 14, 2004 - "God's Commitment to Us"
• March 21, 2004 - "Rolling Away the Disgrace"
• March 28, 2004 - "Join the Party"
• April 4, 2004 (Passion/Palm Sunday) - "Meeting the Opposition"
• April 8, 2004 (Maundy Thursday) - "Why Is This Night?"ary 29, 2004 (Communion) - "Tempted as We Are"

Sermons for the Seven Sundays of Easter

• April 11, 2004 (Easter) - "The Easter Difference, Not the Easter Indifference"
• April 18, 2004 - "Healing and Malpractice"
• April 25, 2004 - "Wrestling with God - and Winning"
• May 2, 2004 - "Working It Out"
• May 9, 2004 - "Questioning Our Mandate"
• May 16, 2004 - "I Was a Stranger"
• May 23, 2004 - "God and Yogi Berra"Mpl

Sermon from Pentecost through July

• May 30, 2004 (Pentecost Service of Confirmation) - "Children of a Wise Parent"
• June 6, 2004 (Trinity Sunday) - "Not Giving Up"
• June 13, 2004 - "Put Down and Lifted Up"
• June 20, 2004 - "Deliver Us from Chaos"
• July 4, 2004 - "Without It, Nothing to Offer"
• July 11, 2004 - "Finding Hope in the Challenge"

Sermons in the Old Broad Street Church, Summer of 2004

• August 22, 2004 - "Shame on Him"
• August 29, 2004 - "Moving Up"
• September 5, 2004 - "Pay It Forward"

Sermons in the Fall of 2004

• September 12, 2004 - "Because God's That Way"
• September 19, 2004 - "Only Human"
• September 26, 2004 - "Investing in the Worthless"
• October 3, 2004, World Communion - "Second Nature"
• October 10, 2004 - "Xeno"
• October 17, 2004 - "Pester and Protest"
• October 24, 2004 - "Going Home Justified"
• October 31, 2004 - "God's Purpose for Dealing with Us"
• November 7 - "When the Issue Is Not the Issue, What Is?"
• November 14, 2004 - "The Caretaker and the Consumer"
• November 21, 2004 - "Thankful, Open, and Caring"

Interfaith Community Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving, Old Broad Street Church

• November 25, 2004 - "From Thanksgiving, Hope"

Sermons in Advent, 2004

• November 28, 2004 - "Sighting Beyond the Horizon?""
• December 5, 2004 - "Incisive Peace"
• December 12, 2004 - "No Gloss"
• December 19, 2004 - "Following the Star"
• December 26, 2004 - "Gather the Lambs"