Santa Monica Nazarene Church Church of the Nazarene
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Weekly sermons from Santa Monica Church of the Nazarene in Santa Monica, CA.
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04.28.24 - Imagine New Possibilities: Or Good News for Eunuchs (Acts 8:26-40)
In this sermon we talk about how the future of God was always meant for the eunuch even when for a thousand years it wasn’t.
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04.21.24 - The Good Church (John 10:11-18)
In this sermon we consider what a loud concert taught me about (not) hearing God, how God meets us when there is no way, and what it means to be the Good Church of the Good Shepherd.
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04.14.24 - "To Be Aware of God’s Presence in the Room” (Luke 24:36-48)
In this sermon we look at a moment where the disciples encounter the post-resurrection Jesus and we consider what it means to be aware of God’s presence in the room (thank you Nadia Bolz-Weber).
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04.07.24 - Of Saints and Ironed Shirts (John 20:19-28)
In this sermon we watch a guy iron a shirt and talk about the saints (Monica, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Joan of the Cross).
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03.31.24 (Resurrection Sunday) - What are you still doing here? (Mark 16:1-8)
In this sermon on Easter Sunday we turn to the resurrection of Jesus as Mark’s gospel tells it. We embrace the strangeness of Mark’s version and, with a little help again from The Shawshank Redemption, we hear the good news that Jesus is out there calling us into a future not foreclosed by death but made possible through his rising from the dead.
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03.29.24 (Good Friday) - “I could live without you, but I don’t want to” (John 18-19)
In this sermon on Good Friday we riff on a song lyric as way to grasp the heart of God on display in the death of Jesus. “I should’ve told you I could live without you, but I don’t want to.”