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March 25, 2016 Good Friday – A man walks into a bar, er, I mean he walks into a church

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 September 14, 2016

A stranger walked into church one day, a Sunday naturally. He was carrying a Bible which should be a good sign but in the modern era, it’s sort of a danger sign, I mean, how many of you carry a Bible to church. We’ll get to asking why we don’t later on. He had that […]


Tags : abundant life, confession, joy, kingdom of God, ministry, truth, who are you looking for?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 Lent 3 It’s not hate, hate would be better

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 March 27, 2014
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It isn’t out in the open most of the time; we have too polite a society to leave it out in the open very often. We don’t speak of it out loud, in a public forum, in front of hundreds of people, some of whom we don’t know and who will take their impression of […]


Tags : agency, chaplaincy, confession, contempt, conversion, disdain, Exodus, Fred Phelps, Hatred, healing, immigration, Moses, reputation, stay with them, unclean, Westboro Baptist

Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 – All Saints

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 November 5, 2013
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Jesus does not come into our houses in order to make us feel good. I know that’s a challenging statement to those of us who have had Him in our hearts for long enough to feel comfortable with having Him there, but the fact of the matter is having Jesus come into your life is […]


Tags : applecart, confession, darkness, death, Dia de los Muertos, divorce, Fear, fight, forgiveness, grace, hospital sick room, misery, sinner, tic-tac, Zacchaeus

Sunday, October 27th, 2013 – Pentecost 23 – Reformation Sunday?

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 November 5, 2013
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This is not Reformation Sunday. Okay, it is Reformation Sunday, but these are not the scriptures for Reformation Sunday. For me, a part of the beauty of Christian worship is the rhythm of the church year, the time rolling from our anticipation shining through in Advent to Christmas and the coming of the child in […]


Tags : A day in your courts, Church Year, confess, confession, doorkeeper, hubris, hypocrisy, libation, Liturgical Year, Ordinary Time, Reformation, Reformation Sunday, we are beggars

Sunday, August 18, 2013 Pentecost 13 This ain’t therapy

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 August 23, 2013
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(Credit where credit is due, I was quite inspired by the work of Michael Horton and his book Christless Christianity. If you are looking to feel convicted as a preacher, read it. Thanks to him for a couple of quotes) We seem to have lost our fear, somewhere along the way. It vanished under the […]


Tags : booster, buddy christ, cholera, Christianity, confession, DIY, forgiveness, I'm Okay, life coach, narcissism, scandal, sin, sinning, therapy, You're Okay

Sunday, April 14 – naked

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 April 17, 2013
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There are things I know about quite a few of you that you’d probably rather I didn’t mention in church, or in front of other people at all. It is an odd position to be in, as Pastor, to know things, to know family secrets and to have seen people at their most vulnerable, or […]


Tags : confession, confessional, fallibility, forgiveness, Geraldo, honesty, isolation, Jesus Christ, naked, realistic, Swaggart, truth, TV, vulnerability, vulnerable

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