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Love Is What Love Does
August 30, 2020
Romans 12:9-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
Reconciliation, This Side of Heaven
August 23, 2020
Genesis 33:1-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
Beyond the Reckoning
August 16, 2020
​Genesis 32:22-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
Faith Rules
August 9, 2020
Genesis 29:15-28 - Annette Hill Briggs
You Have to Be There
July 19, 2020
Genesis 28:10-19a - Annette Hill Briggs
Two Brothers, One Birthright
​July 12, 2020 
Genesis 25:19-34 - Annette Hill Briggs 
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
Let Me Tell You Why You Are Here
February 9, 2020
​Matthew 5:13-20 ​- Annette Hill Briggs
​It’s Always an Inside Job
February 16, 2020
Matthew 5:21-37 - Annette Hill Briggs
What Language Shall We Borrow?
February 23, 2020
Matthew 17:1-9 - Annette Hill Briggs
These Days of Exile 
June 28, 2020
Jeremiah 28:5-9 - Annette Hill Briggs
A Strange Word
June 21, 2020
Jeremiah 20:7-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Compassion of Christ
June 14, 2020
Matthew 9:35-10:8 - Annette Hill Briggs
We Belong to the Lord
June 7, 2020
Genesis 1:1-2:4a - Annette Hill Briggs
Would That All Were Prophets
May 31, 2020
Numbers 11:24-30 - Annette Hill Briggs
Suffering As a Christian
May 24, 2020
I Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Accompanist
May 17, 2020
John 14:15-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
Bide the Time
May 10, 2020
​John 14:1-14 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Kindness of God Is Abundance
May 3, 2020
​John 10:1-10 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Difference Is Joy
April 12, 2020
Matthew 28:1-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
Your King Has Come
April 5, 2020
Matthew 21:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Gospel of Samaria
March 15, 2020
John 4:5-42 - Annette Hill Briggs
DayLight Disciples
March 8, 2020
​John 3:1-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Business of Faith
September 8, 2019
​Philemon 1:1-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
A Sketch and a Shadow
September 1, 2019
Hebrews 13:1-8, 16-18 - ​​Annette Hill Briggs
Grace Is Grace
August 25, 2019
Romans 11:1-24 - Annette Hill Briggs
Who Do You Think You Are?
August 18, 2019
Romans 9:8-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Myth of Separation
​August 11, 2019
Romans 8:31-39 - Annette Hill Briggs
A Sublime Madness
August 4, 2019
​Romans 8:18-30 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Prerogative of God
July 28, 2019
Romans 8:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Fantasy of the Law and
​the Reality of the Christ
July 21, 2019
Romans 7:1-25 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Territory of Grace
July 14, 2019
Romans 6:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
God Has Been So Kind to Us
July 7, 2019
Romans 5:12-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
Fantastically Kind
June 30, 2019
​Romans 5:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
A Friend of God
June 23, 2019
Romans 4:1-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
Since God Is One
June 16, 2019
Romans 3:21-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
1 + x = 1
​June 9, 2019
Romans 3:1-12 - Annette Hill Briggs
Everyone’s Secret Thoughts
June 2, 2019
Romans 2:12-24 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Trouble with Conversion
May 26, 2019
Romans 1:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
Welcome to Paul
May 12, 2019
​Acts 13:1-3, 14:8-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
Jesus' Answer to the Prayer
​He Is Telling Us to Pray
May 5, 2019
Matthew 9:32-38 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Great Omission
April 28, 2019
Matthew 28:16-20 - Annette Hill Briggs
Never Discount the Joy!
April 21, 2019
Matthew 28:1-10 - Annette Hill Briggs
Who Will Have the Throne?
April 14, 2019
Matthew 21:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
Jesus and the Disinherited
April 7, 2019
Matthew 25:31-46 - Annette Hill Briggs
​No Darkness So Dark
March 31, 2019
Matthew 25:1-13 - Annette Hill Briggs
If Grace, Once Tasted, Isn’t What We Want
​March 24, 2019
Matthew 22:1-14 - ​Annette Hill Briggs
The Last Shall Be the Same
March 17, 2019
Matthew 20:1-16 - Annette Hill Briggs
What Are Christians For?
March 10, 2019
Matthew 18:15-35 - Annette Hill Briggs
Better Poets & Painters This Time Around
March 3, 2019
Matthew 16:24-17:8 - Annette Hill Briggs
We're Getting Wet Either Way
​February 24, 2019
Matthew 14:13-33 - Annette Hill Briggs
You Don't Know Heads from Tails
February 17, 2019
Matthew 13:24-43 - Annette Hill Briggs
Every Habit Like a Beam
February 10, 2019
Matthew 7:1-14, 24-29 - Annette Hill Briggs
Treasure Heart
February 3, 2019
Matthew 6:1-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
There Is a Path
January 27, 2019
Matthew 5:1-20 - Annette Hill Briggs
They Were Three of Thousands
January 6, 2019
Matthew 2:1-18 - Annette Hill Briggs
Bootleggers & Bag Men
December 30, 2018
Matthew 1:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
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
This Little Life of Mine
​December 9, 2018
Esther 4:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
Five Goats
December 2, 2018
​Habakkuk 1:1-2:20 - Annette Hill Briggs
How to Be Safe
November 25, 2018
Jeremiah 7:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
Do Not Be Afraid
November 18, 2018
Isaiah 37:1-7 - Annette Hill Briggs
O Little Town of Bethlehem
November 11, 2018
Micah 6:1-8  - Annette Hill Briggs
Naaman Was a Foreigner 
November 4, 2018 
II Kings 5:19b-27 - Annette Hill Briggs 
A Parable of Justice
October 28, 2018 
I Kings 3:4-28 - Annette Hill Briggs 
Many Tears Left to Cry
October 21, 2018
II Samuel 11:27b-12:15 - Annette Hill Briggs
What Promise Will We Keep?
October 14, 2018
Joshua 24:1-28 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Song of the Sea
October 7, 2018
Exodus 14:5-29  - Annette Hill Briggs
Suppose She’s Telling the Truth
September 30, 2018
Genesis 39:1-23 - Annette Hill Briggs
The Next Time God Is Done with People
September 23, 2018    
Genesis ​8:6-12, 9:8-​17 - Annette Hill Briggs  
Heaven All the Way to Heaven
September 16, 2018
Mark 10:17-31 - Annette Hill Briggs
Where Your Heart Is 
September 9, 2018 
Matthew 6:19-34 - Annette Hill Briggs
From Full to Empty to Full
September 2, 2018
Ruth 4 - Annette Hill Briggs
How Foolishly They Guard Their Nothing
August 26, 2018
Ruth 2:1-23 - Annette Hill Briggs
Never The Less
August 19, 2018
Ruth 1:1-22 - Annette Hill Briggs
​A Triple Redundancy
August 12, 2018​
I John 4:7-21 - Annette Hill Briggs
We Are from God
August 5, 2018
I John 4:1-6 - Annette Hill Briggs
If We Walk in the Light . . .
July 22, 2018
I John 1:5-2:2 - Annette Hill Briggs​
"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
"The One About Spouses, Houses & Donkeys"  
July 8, 2018 
Exodus 20:1-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
"Why This Great Migration?"
June 24, 2018 
Exodus 20:1-11 - Annette Hill Briggs
"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
"Pentecost, Promised & Delivered"
May 20, 2018
John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 - Annette Hill Briggs
"Jesus Prayed for His Friends & You Should Too"
May 13, 2018
John 17:6-19 - Annette Hill Briggs
"What a Friend"
May 6, 2018
John 15:9-17 - Annette Hill Briggs
"One Last I AM"
April 29, 2018
John 15:1-8 - Annette Hill Briggs
"I'm Not Going to Let Anything Bad Happen to You"
April 22, 2018
John 10:11-18  - Annette Hill Briggs
"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

Genesis
       Genesis 1:1--2:4a
       Genesis 21:1-6;                                22:1-14
​       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
​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
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A Few Preachers, Writers, & Musicians I Depend Upon for Preaching
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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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