Garry on Fig Trees - Luke 13:1-9
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His Eye is on the Sparrow
Promise
All Creatures of God and King
Let it Rain
(Turn Turn Turn)
Amazing Grace

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If you have ever loved someone you could not protect, then you understand the depth of Jesus’ lament. All you can do is open your arms. You cannot make anyone walk into them. Meanwhile, this is the most vulnerable posture in the world –wings spread, breast exposed –but if you mean what you say, then this is how you stand. …

… Jesus won’t be king of the jungle in this or any other story. What he will be is a mother hen, who stands between the chicks and those who mean to do them harm. She has no fangs, no claws, no rippling muscles. All she has is her willingness to shield her babies with her own body. If the fox wants them, he will have to kill her first; which he does, as it turns out. He slides up on her one night in the yard while all the babies are asleep. When her cry wakens them, they scatter.

She dies the next day where both foxes and chickens can see her — wings spread, breast exposed — without a single chick beneath her feathers. It breaks her heart . . . but if you mean what you say, then this is how you stand.

-Barbara Brown Taylor
Christian Century 2/25/86

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Brendan on Fear - Luke 13:31-35
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The Sinner

Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek
What I have treasur’d in my memorie!
Since, if my soul make even with the week,
Each seventh note by right is due to thee.
I finde there quarries of pil’d vanities,
But shreds of holinesse, that dare not venture
To shew their face, since crosse to thy decrees:
There the circumference earth is, heav’n the center.
In so much dregs the quintessence is small:
The spirit and good extract of my heart
Comes to about the many hundred part.
Yet Lord restore thine image, heare my call:
And though my hard heart scarce to thee can grone,
Remember that thou once didst write on stone.

George Herbert (1593–1633)

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Sermon:
Garry Castle on Luke 4:1-13 (Jesus gets real hungry)

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Music:

• Hospital - Michael Knott
• A Thing Called Love - Jerry Reed
• Like a Child - Jars of Clay
• Inch by Inch (The Garden Song)
• I am Blessed - Ben Harper
• I shall not be moved (Like a tree)

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Sermon:
Garry Castle - Jesus gets real Shiny, up on a mountain

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Music:

• He will come - Waterdeep
• Sink-n-swim - Plumb
• I shall be released - Bob Dylan
• Fix you - Coldplay
• Up on a mountain - Welcome Wagon
• Saviour King - Hillsongs

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Garry Castle on Getting Caught
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Setlist:
This too shall pass - OK GO
My Children Be Joyful - Rock Plaza Central
Lift Him Up, That’s All - Bruce Peninsula/Washington Phillips
What is the light? - The Flaming Lips
Communion: I want to be ready - Ben Harper

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Garry Castle on Luke 4:14-30
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Bring along coins set aside for Haiti relief work and put them in the toolbox this coming Sunday during the service. This will be our first 12 (special offering) of 2010.

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