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Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “Claiming Our Power” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2013 John 14:8-17; Acts 2:1-21 This is all well and good, but I feel like I’ve celebrated Pentecost once this year already.  I know that I’ve mentioned the United for Marriage Equality Rally in a couple [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “Breaking the Chains of Abstract Christianity” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon Seventh Sunday of Easter May 12, 2013 John 17:20-26; Acts 16:16-34 Let’s start this morning by turning to the cross.  This might be tough for us to do.  We don’t talk much about the cross or about [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “There Are Just Colors” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon April 28, 2013 John 13:31-35; Acts 11:1-18 What comes to mind when you think of the color pink?  What do you associate with that color?  How about blue?  When you see the color blue, what comes to mind?  I [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 21, 2013 Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17 The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want. Psalm 23. Weeks like this past one call on Psalm 23 for comfort. Boston needs Psalm 23. West, [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “The Gospel According to Irvin Kershner” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon April 14, 2013 Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 We just read from the Book of John, Chapter 21.  Chapter 21 is the last chapter in John’s gospel; but in light of how Chapter 20 ends, you kind of [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “Living the Resurrection” Delivered by Licensed Lay Minister, Ana Deter April 7, 2013 Psalm 118:14-29; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31 For those I have not had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Ana Deter and I am a licensed lay minister under the auspices of Friends Congregational Church.  I have [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “Liberated Liberators” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon Easter Sunday March 31, 2013 John 20:1-18; Exodus 3:13-14a Let’s start out with just one more quick Scripture…pero en español: “En el principio era el Verbo, y el Verbo estaba ante Dios, y el Verbo era Dios.”  Why ‘Verbo’ and not [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “The Journey into Freedom, Step 6: Being Taught Before We Teach” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon March 24, 2013 Isaiah 50:4-9a and Luke 19:28-40 My 8-year-old son loves to invent things.  He’s been doing it for years.  All he needs is a shoebox, some markers, an empty paper [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “The Journey into Freedom, Step 4: Preparing Ourselves for Servanthood” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon March 10, 2013 Joshua 5:9-12; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 In our Wednesday night worship service this week, we talked about the ministry of reconciliation that Paul outlines in 2 Corinthians, and [...]

Sermon for Friends Congregational Church “The Journey into Freedom, Step 3: Taking the Time to Be a Disciple” Delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon March 3, 2013 Luke 13:1-9 I don’t know how many of you remember Kendra and Les Kuhlman.  Kendra and Les were members of our church for a short while, and [...]