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Archived Sermons, 2007

Sermons in Winter, 2007

• January 7, 2007 (Communion) - "Sweep"
• January 14, 2007 - "Habits and Rituals, What Good Are They?"
• January 21, 2007 - "Our Hope in Troubling Times"
• January 28, 2007 - "Appreciation"
• February 4, 2007 (Boy Scout Sunday) - "A Scout Is . . . Kind"
• February 11, 2007 (Ordination and Installation) - "Champions and Captains"
• February 18, 2005 - "Rupelstiltskin"

Sermons in Lent, 2007

• February 25, 2007 - "More Than Food"
• March 4, 2007 - "Questions of God"
• March 11, 2007 - "If You Knew Me, You Would Know . . ."
• March 18 - "Faith and Science: Our Need to Cooperate"
• March 25 (Baptism) - "Children of Grace"

Sermons in Holy Week and the Sundays of Easter, 2007

• April 1 (Passion/Palm Sunday) - "Voices of the Crowd"
• April 5, 2007 (Maundy Thursday) - "Why Remember?"
• April 8, 2007 (Easter Sunday) - "The Life I know Live"
• April 15, 2007 (2nd Sunday of Easter) - "In This Together"
• April 22, 2007 (3rd Sunday of Easter) - "The Difference a Future Makes"
• April 29, 2007 (4th Sunday of Easter) - "It's You as You, Only Better!"
• May 6, 2007 (5th Sunday of Easter) - "The Gift Card and the Savings Bond"
• May 13, 2007 (6th Sunday of Easter) - "The Partnerships of Life"
• May 20, 2007 (7th Sunday of Easter) - "Waiting for Rain"

Sermons from Pentecost through July, 2007

• May 27, 2007 (Pentecost) - "Linked and Connected"
• June 3, 2007 (Trinity Sunday, Communion) - "God's Life"
• June 10, 2007 (Graduate Recognition) - "Christian in a World of 'Me and Mine'"
• June 24, 2007 - "Bridge Town"
• July 1, 2007 - "Building Trust"
• July 8, 2007 - "Christian Character" (This sermon is in PDF to keep the endnotes formatted. Use the back button on your browser to return to this page.)

Sermons preached in the Old Broad Street Church in the Summer of 2007

• August 19 , 2007 - "Grapes, Figs, and a Woman in Chronic Distress"
• August 26, 2007 - "Jesus and the Fears of Pride"
• September 2, 2007 - "Easy on the Shoulders" (PDF document)

Sermons in the Fall, 2007

• September 9, 2007 - "Humor and Mishap" (PDF)
• September 16, 2007 - "The Verse We Skip" (PDF)
• September 23, 2007 - "Touching Base"
• September 30, 2007 (reception of new members) - "Forward Together"
• October 7, 2007 (World Communion) - "Echoes of Hannah and Francis"
• October 14, 2007 - "The Riddle I"
• October 21, 2007 - "Here and Now"
• October 28, 2007 - "What God Wants"
• November 4, 2007 - Prospects in a Time of Uncertainty" (PDF)
• November 11, 2007 - "How Are They To Believe?"
• November 18, 2007 (Thanksgiving and Stewardship Sunday) - "Child and Adult"
• November 22, 2007 (Interfaith Service) - "Thanksgiving in a Time of Fear and Anger"
• November 25, 2007 - "Re-clothe Us in Our Rightful Minds"

Sermons for Advent and Christmas, 2007

• December 2, 2007 (1st Sunday of Advent), Communion - "Hope as Healing" (PDF)
• December 9, 2007 (2nd Sunday of Advent) - "Like a Forest Fire"
• December 16, 2007 (3rd Sunday of Advent, Christmas Music Sunday) - "Rejoice Why?"
• December 23, 2007 (4th Sunday of Advent) - "No Zero-sum"
• December 24, 2007 (Candlelight Christmas Eve Service) - "The Light of the World" (PDF)
• December 30, 2007 (Baptism) - "The Importance of Naming" (PDF)