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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
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Preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek, MI on July 19th, 2020. Text: Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43 One of the things I’m enjoying about living in Battle Creek is the fact that I have a yard of my own for the first time in… eight years. Some of you have seen it, some of you
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Preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek, MI on July 12th, 2020. One of my favorite movies of all time is the 2016 science fiction film Arrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. If you’ve not seen it, do yourself a favor and go watch it: it will be time well spent. The plot
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A sermon on Matthew 10.24-39 for part of our series on worship, Becoming Fully Human. I recently discovered the setting on my phone that tracks the amount of screen time I’m using every day with various apps. There’s nothing quite like your phone telling you, “hey, you need to chill out a little bit.” I
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This is a sermon I preached in Union City, Michigan on the second Sunday of Advent. See if you can count the number of Ursula Le Guin references. Back in 2014 I made a pilgrimage to Scotland. (I was ordained while I was there.) One of the places we saw was Glasgow Cathedral, in the
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This is the sermon I preached this past Sunday as part of our Be the Church series, the UCC’s initiative to get congregations thinking about what it means to be a church on the move. My family is from southwestern Virginia, near the border of North Carolina and a short drive from the town that
The Rev. Nate Craddock 