sermons
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on August 14th, 2022. The text is Psalm 46. I found my way back to it by fortunate accident upon finding some prep notes I had written for it saved in my work laptop’s browser cache a full year and a half later, and
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This sermon was preached on April 16th, 2023 at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek. The text is the Thomas pericope, beginning at John 20.19 and following. Click here to listen along—sermons were meant to be heard! At the heart of the Christian mystery is the idea that God becomes a human with a body.
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on November 20th, 2022. The text is Isaiah 36 and 37, as well as Isaiah 2.1-4, per the Narrative Lectionary. Click here to listen along—sermons are meant to be heard! My friends, I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen.
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on September 4th, 2022. The text is 1st Corinthians 13. Click here to listen along: sermons are meant to be heard! I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. The passage that Roger just read for us is a piece
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on Sunday, August 15th, 2021. The text is Mark 6.30-44. Listen along here, starting at 33:00. I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. Unlike last week’s text, with its salacious intrigues and revenge plots and beheadings, this text is
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek, MI, on January 24th, 2021. The text is Luke 3.1-22, as rendered in The Message. Sermons are meant to be heard, so listen along here, starting at the 30 minute mark. I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. First
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek, MI on December 20th, 2020. Listen along here, starting around the 24:00 mark: https://fb.watch/2wwaCGf0jM/ I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. So, although 2020 has been a challenging year for many, if not all of us, it is not
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on October 4th, 2020. The text is John 11.22-34. Sermons are meant to be heard: listen along here! I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. Intro riff: Michael and I have been going back and forth about getting this
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on September 13th, 2020.Text: Exodus 6.28-7.3, 7.14-24 I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. The river Nile had already run red once, with the blood of Hebrew infants, victims of a cold and calculating power focused only on The
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Preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek, MI on August 16th, 2020. Text: Exodus 1.1-2.10 This is the first sermon in a seven-week series whose goal is to explore the intersections of justice and ecology. I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. On a lazy Saturday afternoon many years
The Rev. Nate Craddock 