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“In general it is true that the sermon which is good to preach is poor to read and the sermon which is good to read is poor to preach. There are exceptions but this is generally true.”
​~ Phillips Brooks, 1877
Justice Matters, friends.  It must...
~ pastor annette, January 14th sermon from John 2:1-11. 

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Love Is What Love Does
August 30, 2020
Romans 12:9-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Reconciliation, This Side of Heaven
August 23, 2020
Genesis 33:1-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Beyond the Reckoning
August 16, 2020
​Genesis 32:22-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Faith Rules
August 9, 2020
Genesis 29:15-28 - Annette Hill Briggs
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You Have to Be There
July 19, 2020
Genesis 28:10-19a - Annette Hill Briggs
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Two Brothers, One Birthright
​July 12, 2020 
Genesis 25:19-34 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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Preaching to Tomato Plants; or, Faith for an Unknown Future
​July 5, 2020 
Psalm 145:8-14 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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The Simple Presence
February 2, 2020
Luke 2:22-40 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Let Me Tell You Why You Are Here
February 9, 2020
​Matthew 5:13-20 ​- Annette Hill Briggs
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​It’s Always an Inside Job
February 16, 2020
Matthew 5:21-37 - Annette Hill Briggs
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What Language Shall We Borrow?
February 23, 2020
Matthew 17:1-9 - Annette Hill Briggs
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These Days of Exile 
June 28, 2020
Jeremiah 28:5-9 - Annette Hill Briggs
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A Strange Word
June 21, 2020
Jeremiah 20:7-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Compassion of Christ
June 14, 2020
Matthew 9:35-10:8 - Annette Hill Briggs
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We Belong to the Lord
June 7, 2020
Genesis 1:1-2:4a - Annette Hill Briggs
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Would That All Were Prophets
May 31, 2020
Numbers 11:24-30 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Suffering As a Christian
May 24, 2020
I Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 - Annette Hill Briggs

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The Accompanist
May 17, 2020
John 14:15-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Bide the Time
May 10, 2020
​John 14:1-14 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Kindness of God Is Abundance
May 3, 2020
​John 10:1-10 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Difference Is Joy
April 12, 2020
Matthew 28:1-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Your King Has Come
April 5, 2020
Matthew 21:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Gospel of Samaria
March 15, 2020
John 4:5-42 - Annette Hill Briggs
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DayLight Disciples
March 8, 2020
​John 3:1-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Business of Faith
September 8, 2019
​Philemon 1:1-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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A Sketch and a Shadow
September 1, 2019
Hebrews 13:1-8, 16-18 - ​​Annette Hill Briggs
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Grace Is Grace
August 25, 2019
Romans 11:1-24 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Who Do You Think You Are?
August 18, 2019
Romans 9:8-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Myth of Separation
​August 11, 2019
Romans 8:31-39 - Annette Hill Briggs
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A Sublime Madness
August 4, 2019
​Romans 8:18-30 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Prerogative of God
July 28, 2019
Romans 8:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Fantasy of the Law and
​the Reality of the Christ

July 21, 2019
Romans 7:1-25 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Territory of Grace
July 14, 2019
Romans 6:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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God Has Been So Kind to Us
July 7, 2019
Romans 5:12-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Fantastically Kind
June 30, 2019
​Romans 5:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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A Friend of God
June 23, 2019
Romans 4:1-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Since God Is One
June 16, 2019
Romans 3:21-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
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1 + x = 1
​June 9, 2019
Romans 3:1-12 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Everyone’s Secret Thoughts
June 2, 2019
Romans 2:12-24 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Trouble with Conversion
May 26, 2019
Romans 1:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Welcome to Paul
May 12, 2019
​Acts 13:1-3, 14:8-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Jesus' Answer to the Prayer
​He Is Telling Us to Pray

May 5, 2019
Matthew 9:32-38 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Great Omission
April 28, 2019
Matthew 28:16-20 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Never Discount the Joy!
April 21, 2019
Matthew 28:1-10 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Who Will Have the Throne?
April 14, 2019
Matthew 21:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Jesus and the Disinherited
April 7, 2019
Matthew 25:31-46 - Annette Hill Briggs
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​No Darkness So Dark
March 31, 2019
Matthew 25:1-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
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If Grace, Once Tasted, Isn’t What We Want
​March 24, 2019
Matthew 22:1-14 - ​Annette Hill Briggs
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The Last Shall Be the Same
March 17, 2019
Matthew 20:1-16 - Annette Hill Briggs
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What Are Christians For?
March 10, 2019
Matthew 18:15-35 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Better Poets & Painters This Time Around
March 3, 2019
Matthew 16:24-17:8 - Annette Hill Briggs
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We're Getting Wet Either Way
​February 24, 2019
Matthew 14:13-33 - Annette Hill Briggs
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You Don't Know Heads from Tails
February 17, 2019
Matthew 13:24-43 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Every Habit Like a Beam
February 10, 2019
Matthew 7:1-14, 24-29 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Treasure Heart
February 3, 2019
Matthew 6:1-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
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There Is a Path
January 27, 2019
Matthew 5:1-20 - Annette Hill Briggs
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They Were Three of Thousands
January 6, 2019
Matthew 2:1-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Bootleggers & Bag Men
December 30, 2018
Matthew 1:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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This Precious, Precious Night
December 24, 2018
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Only Wildly Out of Context
December 23, 2018
Matthew 1:18-25 - Annette Hill Briggs
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This Little Life of Mine
​December 9, 2018
Esther 4:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Five Goats
December 2, 2018
​Habakkuk 1:1-2:20 - Annette Hill Briggs
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How to Be Safe
November 25, 2018
Jeremiah 7:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Do Not Be Afraid
November 18, 2018
Isaiah 37:1-7 - Annette Hill Briggs
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
November 11, 2018
Micah 6:1-8  - Annette Hill Briggs
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Naaman Was a Foreigner 
November 4, 2018 
II Kings 5:19b-27 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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A Parable of Justice
October 28, 2018 
I Kings 3:4-28 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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Many Tears Left to Cry
October 21, 2018
II Samuel 11:27b-12:15 - Annette Hill Briggs
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What Promise Will We Keep?
October 14, 2018
Joshua 24:1-28 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Song of the Sea
October 7, 2018
Exodus 14:5-29  - Annette Hill Briggs
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Suppose She’s Telling the Truth
September 30, 2018
Genesis 39:1-23 - Annette Hill Briggs
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The Next Time God Is Done with People
September 23, 2018    
Genesis ​8:6-12, 9:8-​17 - Annette Hill Briggs  
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Heaven All the Way to Heaven
September 16, 2018
Mark 10:17-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Where Your Heart Is 
September 9, 2018 
Matthew 6:19-34 - Annette Hill Briggs
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From Full to Empty to Full
September 2, 2018
Ruth 4 - Annette Hill Briggs
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How Foolishly They Guard Their Nothing
August 26, 2018
Ruth 2:1-23 - Annette Hill Briggs
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Never The Less
August 19, 2018
Ruth 1:1-22 - Annette Hill Briggs
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​A Triple Redundancy
August 12, 2018​
I John 4:7-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
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We Are from God
August 5, 2018
I John 4:1-6 - Annette Hill Briggs
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If We Walk in the Light . . .
July 22, 2018
I John 1:5-2:2 - Annette Hill Briggs​
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"The Banquet & the Fast"
July 15, 2018
I John 1:1-4 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"Leave It to Jesus"
July 1, 2018
Exodus 20:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs

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"The One About Spouses, Houses & Donkeys"  
July 8, 2018 
Exodus 20:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"Why This Great Migration?"
June 24, 2018 
Exodus 20:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"The Holey Plans of God"
June 17, 2018   
Exodus 20:3-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"Ten Words for Free People"
June 3, 2018
Exodus 19:1-6; 20:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs

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"Pentecost, Promised & Delivered"
May 20, 2018
John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"Jesus Prayed for His Friends & You Should Too"
May 13, 2018
John 17:6-19 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"What a Friend"
May 6, 2018
John 15:9-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"One Last I AM"
April 29, 2018
John 15:1-8 - Annette Hill Briggs
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"I'm Not Going to Let Anything Bad Happen to You"
April 22, 2018
John 10:11-18  - Annette Hill Briggs
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"Along Came Thomas"
​April 8, 2018 
John 20:19-31 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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"Grace Wins.  Grace Always Wins."
April 1, 2018 ​
John 20:1-18 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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sermon scripture index -- click here

Sermon Scripture Index

Genesis
       Genesis 1:1--2:4a
       Genesis 21:1-6;                                22:1-14
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Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23;                      28:10-17
​Ruth
       Ruth 1:1-18
1 Samuel
​       1 Samuel 2:1-10
2 Samuel
​       2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10
​       2 Samuel 6:3-23
​       2 Samuel 7:1-14a
       2 Samuel 11:1-15
1 Kings
       1 Kings 2:1-4, 10-12
       1 Kings 3:1-15
Job
​       Job 42:1-6, 10-17

Psalms
​       Psalm 16
​       Psalm 127
​Isaiah
       Isaiah 2:1-4
​       Isaiah 56:1-12
​       Isaiah 63:7-19
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Mark
​       Mark 10:17-31
​       Mark 10:32-45
Luke
       Luke 2:21-38
​​       Luke 3:1-22
​       Luke 4:1-13
       Luke 6:1-11
       Luke 7:1-17
​       Luke 7:18-35
​       Luke 7:36-50
​       Luke 9:37-50
       Luke 10:25-37
​       Luke 13:1-9
       Luke 13:1-9, 31-35
​       Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
       Luke 15:1-32
​       Luke 19:28-44 (2016)
       Luke 19:29-44 (2017)
​       Luke 24:1-12 (2016)
       Luke 24:1-12 (2017)
​       Luke 24:13-35
John
       John 1:1-14
​       John 12:1-11
Acts
​       Acts 5:27-42
​       Acts 9:1-20
​       Acts 9:36-43
​       Acts 11:1-18
       Acts 12:1-19
       Acts 14:1-7
​       Acts 15:1-22
​​Ephesians
       Ephesians 1:3-14
​I Corinthians
​       I Corinthians 1:1-17
       I Corinthians 1:18-31
​       I Corinthians 3
​       I Corinthians 6:12-20
​       I Corinthians 11:17-34
​       I Corinthians 16:1-14
additional sources of inspiration
A Few Preachers, Writers, & Musicians I Depend Upon for Preaching
(click on the name to access information about each one)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Phillips Brooks
Walter Brueggemann
Frederick Buechner
Kate Campbell
Fred Craddock
Emmylou Harris
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ann Lamott
Edward O. Wilson
John Woolman
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