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07.25.10
Just Jesus? | Colossians 2:6-23
Erin Marshalek
Last week we talked about church songs, and how the Holy Spirit uses those songs to take root in our hearts and in our lives. While we've been singing this morning, the voices of the church have made a beautiful sound. And that leads me to ...

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07.18.10
Holding it Together | Colossians 1:15-29
Erin Marshalek
A couple years ago, I spent the summer in Grand Rapids and worked for the library at Calvin College. My roommate was away for the summer, so I was in the apartment alone. Since it was summer break, I didn't have any homework to do. So, once I got ...

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07.11.10
The Gospel in Reverse | Colossians 1:1-14
Erin Marshalek
The past three weeks, we spent time encountering Jesus in the book of Luke. We experienced Jesus being scary, when he heals the man who had been demon-possessed. We heard Jesus' radical call to discipleship, and how it costs our very lives. Last ...

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07.04.10
Reason to Rejoice | Luke 10:1-24
Erin Marshalek
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, ...

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06.27.10
Erin Marshalek
Well, who's ready to sign up? It sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Head into hostile territory. Face rejection by all sorts of people. Get rebuked by Jesus. Have no place to ...

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06.20.10
Scarier Than Demons | Luke 8:26-39
Erin Marshalek
Before I began work on this sermon this week, I very clearly remember the last time I spent time with this passage. I was in an education class at the seminary, and all the students were working in pairs. Our assignment was to look at this very ...

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