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2022 Sermon Transcripts by Rev. Scott E. Couper
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2022.12.25
2022.12.18 God With Us
2022.12.11
2022.12.04 Stand as a Signal
2022.11.27 Stay Alert
2022.11.20 First Fruits or Last Fruits
2022.11.13 “Caridad Recíproca”
2022.11.06 Potluck Communion (Guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.10.30 Acts Prompted By Faith Despite Trials
2022.10.23 To Tithe or Not To Tithe That Is (Not) The Question
2022.10.16 All Things in Common
2022.10.09 Great Are You Lord
2022.10.02 Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
2022.09.25
2022.09.18 10,000 Reasons Bless the Lord
2022.09.11 This is Amazing Grace
2022.09.04 A New Identity in Christ
2022.08.28
2022.08.21
2022.08.14 One Who Has No Why
2022.08.07 Living into the Promise
2022.07.31 Soul Investment
2022.07.24
2022.07.17
2022.07.10
2022.07.03 Prophets of Peace
2022.06.26 Union Service at First Congregational Church in West Brattleboro
2022.06.19 Our Shared Journey of Covenantal Entanglement (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.06.12 Unus Deus, Duo Fides
2022.06.05 Ask God
2022.05.29
2022.05.22 Passengers in the Navis
2022.05.15 The Conversion of a Symbol the Cross
2022.05.08 Descending Columbidae
2022.05.01Chi Rho
2022.04.24 Magnus Dei
2022.04.17 Easter Changed Everything (Easter Sunday 10:00 Service)
2022.04.17 Come and Have Some Breakfast (Easter Sunday Sunrise Service)
2022.04.14 Agony of the Soul (Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Message)
2022.04.10 The Transcendent Within Every Thing in the Universe (Palm Sunday)
2022.04.03 Wild Ordination Sermon (guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.03.27 Interspecies Vulnerability
2022.03.20 A Touch of the Wild (guest speaker Margo Neale)
2022.03.13 Coming Home to Creation (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.03.06
2022.02.27 Chosen
2022.02.20 Courage/When Love Drives Out Fear (guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.02.13 Our Inheritance of Faith (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.02.06 Moral Person Immoral Society
2022.01.30 The Ways of Life and Death
2022.01.23 Eureka, The Knee Bone is Connected to the Arm Bone...
2022.01.16 Eureka, Finding your Calling
2022.01.09 Grace Appeared, Grace Emerging
2022.01.02 With Tutu, We Are Marching
2022.12.25
2022.12.18 God With Us
2022.12.11
2022.12.04 Stand as a Signal
2022.11.27 Stay Alert
2022.11.20 First Fruits or Last Fruits
2022.11.13 “Caridad Recíproca”
2022.11.06 Potluck Communion (Guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.10.30 Acts Prompted By Faith Despite Trials
2022.10.23 To Tithe or Not To Tithe That Is (Not) The Question
2022.10.16 All Things in Common
2022.10.09 Great Are You Lord
2022.10.02 Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
2022.09.25
2022.09.18 10,000 Reasons Bless the Lord
2022.09.11 This is Amazing Grace
2022.09.04 A New Identity in Christ
2022.08.28
2022.08.21
2022.08.14 One Who Has No Why
2022.08.07 Living into the Promise
2022.07.31 Soul Investment
2022.07.24
2022.07.17
2022.07.10
2022.07.03 Prophets of Peace
2022.06.26 Union Service at First Congregational Church in West Brattleboro
2022.06.19 Our Shared Journey of Covenantal Entanglement (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.06.12 Unus Deus, Duo Fides
2022.06.05 Ask God
2022.05.29
2022.05.22 Passengers in the Navis
2022.05.15 The Conversion of a Symbol the Cross
2022.05.08 Descending Columbidae
2022.05.01Chi Rho
2022.04.24 Magnus Dei
2022.04.17 Easter Changed Everything (Easter Sunday 10:00 Service)
2022.04.17 Come and Have Some Breakfast (Easter Sunday Sunrise Service)
2022.04.14 Agony of the Soul (Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Message)
2022.04.10 The Transcendent Within Every Thing in the Universe (Palm Sunday)
2022.04.03 Wild Ordination Sermon (guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.03.27 Interspecies Vulnerability
2022.03.20 A Touch of the Wild (guest speaker Margo Neale)
2022.03.13 Coming Home to Creation (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.03.06
2022.02.27 Chosen
2022.02.20 Courage/When Love Drives Out Fear (guest preacher Roger Brown)
2022.02.13 Our Inheritance of Faith (guest preacher Matthew Deen)
2022.02.06 Moral Person Immoral Society
2022.01.30 The Ways of Life and Death
2022.01.23 Eureka, The Knee Bone is Connected to the Arm Bone...
2022.01.16 Eureka, Finding your Calling
2022.01.09 Grace Appeared, Grace Emerging
2022.01.02 With Tutu, We Are Marching
2021 Sermon Transcripts by Rev. Scott E. Couper
2021.12.26 Who Is This Child
2021.12.24 Christmas Eve Psalm 96
2021.12.19 Where in the World Do we Find Love These Days
2021.12.12
2021.12.05 Where in the World Do We Find Peace These Days
2021.11.28 Where in the World Do We Find Hope These Days
2021.11.21 Rooted In Wealth
2021.11.14 Rooted In Work
2021.11.07 Rooted In Wisdom
2021.10.31 Heaven as an All You Can Eat Buffet
2021.10.24 We Are Created for Community
2021.10.17 Lay Priests on Behalf of the High Priest
2021.10.10 Guest Preacher Paul Nickerson/ A Breath Taking Vision Brattleboro
2021.10.03
2021.09.19 First in Caring
2021.09.12 The Only Thing We have to Exclude is Exclusion Itself
2021.09.05 Smack Down Paul vs Peter
2021.08.29 Writers Sent
2021.08.22 Nathanael The First Doubting Thomas
2021.08.15 Patron Saints of Lost Causes and Sawyers
2021.08.08 Andrew Protokletos
2021.08.01 James Squared
2021.07.18 Wherever You Are
2021.07.11 We Have Not Failed to Bear Fruit
2021.07.04
2021.06.20 Thinking Like a Holy Mountain - Matt Deen
2021.06.13 What Humans' Stewardship has Meant for Species Diversity
2021.06.06 What Dominion Meant for the American Bison
2021.05.23 Pentecost: Finding Your Authentic Voice
2021.05.16 Thecla Brave Believer
2021.05.09 Priscilla Messenger of Christ's Word
2021.05.02 Mary of Bethany
2021.04.25 Ruth the Embracer of a New Heritage
2021.04.18 Miriam the First Female Prophet
2021.04.11 Sermon Series on Women in the Bible: Eve Source of Life
2021.04.04 Easter Sunday 10:00: “And…?!?!?!?!”
2021.04.04 Easter Sunday 8:00 “Tasting Fellowship: Breakfast with the Resurrected Jesus”
2021.03.28 Palm Sunday: A Vision to Preach to Those Who Have Ears
2021.03.21 Whole-Body Vision - Guest Preacher Matt Deen
2021.03.14 Transformative Theophany
2021.03.07 Seeing Ministry as God's Success and Not Ours
2021.02.28 God Appears and Calls Us to Liberate Who from What
2021.02.21 Vision Curbs Fear
2021.02.14 Transfigurative Covenant - Guest Preacher Matthew Deen
2021.02.07 Justice in the Gate - Guest Preacher Matthew Deen
2021.01.31 Excluded, Broke, and Sick
2021.01.24 Spiritual Habits Imprinted on our Brains
2021.01.17 From One, All
2021.01.10 The Light of the World
2021.01.03 Peter Pumpkinhead
2020 Sermon Transcripts by Rev. Scott E. Couper
2020.12.27 Long-Awaited Gift
2020.12.27 Christmas Eve Message
2020.12.20 Why Incarnation Matters
2020.12.13 Dreams Dreamt
2020.12.06 Guest Preacher Matthew Deen – You are here
2020.11.29 Where Are You, God?
2020.11.22 Beloved, Love Creation
2020.11.15 Guest preacher Matthew Deen –
2020.11.08 Beloved, Love Your Neighbor
2020.11.01 Seek to Understand
2020.10.25 A Just and Lasting Peace
2020.10.18 Guest Preacher Matthew Deen - Make Love Not Truth
2020.10.11 Wringing the Bread from the Sweat of Other Men's Faces
2020.10.04 Now at the Expiration of Four Years
2020.09.27 God's Sustaining Presence
2020.09.20 Tensions in the Wilderness
2020.09.13 Full of Wisdom and Spirit
2020.09.06 Living Faithfully with a Baptismal Paradox
2020.08.30 Ye Su's True Way in China, South Africa, and El Salvador
2020.08.23 The Protoevangelium of James A Preface to Christmas
2020.08.16 Gospel of Thomas, The Frontier Within
2020.08.09 Mary Magdalene Apostle to the Apostles
2020.08.02 Judas Iscariot's imperishable Realm
2020.07.19 Surely God Is in this Place
2020.07.12 Guest Preacher Matthew Deen - The Courage to Be Changed
2020.07.05 Guest Preacher Matthew Deen – “I am so tired”
2020.06.21 Cedarbrook Swim and Raquet Club
2020.06.14 Sarah Laughed
2020.06.07 A Message Antithetical to the Teachings of Jesus
2020.06.03 Wednesday Facebook Podcast
2020.05.27 Wednesday Facebook Podcast
2020.05.24 Adam, Satan, Emperor Domitian, and Us
2020.05.20 Wednesday Facebook Broadcast
2020.05.17 King Herod's Infrastructural Legacy
2020.05.10 The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar
2020.05.06 Wednesday Facebook Recorded Broadcast
2020.05.03 The Company King Ahab Kept
2020.04.26 King David Takes Responsibility
2020.04.19 The Spiritual Weakness of Pharoah's Congnitive Dissonance
2020.04.12 Today's Continuing Resurrection Surprises
2020.04.09 Rev. Couper's reading at Ecumenical good Friday Service
2020.04.05 Lenten Apologies for Hypocricy
2020.03.29 Lenten Apologies to Robert Hume
2020.03.22 Lenten Apologies to Hermaphrodites
2020.03.15 Lenten Apologies for Xenophobia and Nationalism in the Midst of COVID-19
2020.03.08 Lenten Apologies to Charles Darwin
2020.03.01 Lenten Apologies to Women
2020.02.23 Spiritual Narcolepsy
2020.02.02 Steve Mundahl's Epiphany Message: One More Day to Live
2020.01.26 Darkness, Wilderness and Galilee Places Bringing Epiphany
2020.01.26 Epiphany Story
2020.01.19 Epiphanies Announcing to the World the Coming of Light
2020.01.12 Our Spiritual Light-Bulb Moments
2020.01.05 Christ Is Not Jesus' Last Name
2020 Sermon Audio Files (please excuse glitches & background noises, these are all made by volunteers in the congregation)
2020.11.08 Beloved, Love Your Neighbor
2020.10.11 Wringing the Bread from the Sweat of Other Men's Faces
2020.09.13 Full of Wisdom and Spirit
2020.03.29 Lenten Apologies to Robert Hume
2020.03.22 Lenten Apologies to Hermaphrodites
2020.03.15 Lenten Apologies for Xenophobia and Nationalism in the Midst of COVID-19
2020.03.08 Lenten Apologies to Charles Darwin
2020.03.01 Lenten Apologies to Women
2020.02.23 Spiritual Narcolepsy
2020.02.16 Epiphany message
2020.02.09 Epiphany testimony
2020.02.02 Steve Mundahl's Epiphany Message: One More Day to Live
2020.01.26 Darkness, Wilderness and Galilee Places bringing Epiphany
2020.01.19 Epiphanies Announcing to the World the Coming of Light
2020.01.05 Christ Is Not Jesus' Last Name
2019 Sermon Transcripts by Rev. Scott E. Couper
2019.12.24 Have We Seen the Star Proclaiming God's Glory
2019.12.22 Ready Or Not... Here I Come
2019.12.15 Get Ready... Get Set... Rejoice
2019.12.08 People Get Ready
2019.12.01 It's the End of the World As We Know It
2019.11.24 A Thanksgiving Pledge
2019.11.17 Ingredients For Bread
2019.11.10 Gifts in Open Hands
2019.11.03 Stewardship of the Poor
2019.10.27 Modernity’s Re-Catalyzation of Existential Angst
2019.10.20 Appreciation as the Key to Love
2019.10.06 Why Forgive Often?
2019.09.29 All Different and the Same?
2019.09.15 Christ's Unlimited Patience
2019.09.08 The Cost of Carrying the Cross
2019.09.01 Radically Open Table
2019.08.25 The Angelus Acceptable Worship With Reverence and Awe
2019.08.18 Lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic
2019.08.18 What's This Trampling Out the Vintage All About
2019.08.11 El Paso and Dayton Consequences, not Punishment
2019.07.21 Unconvinced by Moses and the Prophets
2019.07.14 A Prophet's Plumb Line
2019.07.07 Ahead of Their Times
2019.06.23 An Assuring and Unifying Divine Presence
2019.06.16 Strength Through Vulnerability
2019.06.09 Living Water, Pentecost, Holy Baptism
2019.05.19 The Praxis Principle
2019.05.12 God as She and Earth as Mother, third in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.05.05 Cosmocentrism is the New Anthropocentrism, second in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.04.28 A Bible Obsessed With the Environment, first in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.04.21 Easter
2019.04.19 Good Friday
2019.04.18 Maundy Thursday
2019.04.14 Palm Sunday: False Expectations Exceeded
2019.04.07 Something Old, Something New
2019.04.06 Homily in Remembrance of Margaret Johnson
2019.03.31 Grace as Both Priviledge and Forgiveness, Undeserved
2019.03.24 What is the Nature of His Game
2019.03.17 Divine Intimacy Through Trial and Tribulation
2019.03.10 When Vulnerable
2019.03.03 Transfiguration: A Presence Too Powerful to Deny
2019.02.24 Being As God Wills Us to Be
2019.02.17 Life Together
2019.02.10 A Christian Life A Constant Venture
2019.02.09 Memorial Service for Dot Atomanuk
2019.02.03 Raising Prophets
2019.01.27 No Division in a Bilateral Body
2019.01.13 Affirmation As Inclusivity
2019.01.06 Epiphany; Outsiders In
2019.12.22 Ready Or Not... Here I Come
2019.12.15 Get Ready... Get Set... Rejoice
2019.12.08 People Get Ready
2019.12.01 It's the End of the World As We Know It
2019.11.24 A Thanksgiving Pledge
2019.11.17 Ingredients For Bread
2019.11.10 Gifts in Open Hands
2019.11.03 Stewardship of the Poor
2019.10.27 Modernity’s Re-Catalyzation of Existential Angst
2019.10.20 Appreciation as the Key to Love
2019.10.06 Why Forgive Often?
2019.09.29 All Different and the Same?
2019.09.15 Christ's Unlimited Patience
2019.09.08 The Cost of Carrying the Cross
2019.09.01 Radically Open Table
2019.08.25 The Angelus Acceptable Worship With Reverence and Awe
2019.08.18 Lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic
2019.08.18 What's This Trampling Out the Vintage All About
2019.08.11 El Paso and Dayton Consequences, not Punishment
2019.07.21 Unconvinced by Moses and the Prophets
2019.07.14 A Prophet's Plumb Line
2019.07.07 Ahead of Their Times
2019.06.23 An Assuring and Unifying Divine Presence
2019.06.16 Strength Through Vulnerability
2019.06.09 Living Water, Pentecost, Holy Baptism
2019.05.19 The Praxis Principle
2019.05.12 God as She and Earth as Mother, third in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.05.05 Cosmocentrism is the New Anthropocentrism, second in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.04.28 A Bible Obsessed With the Environment, first in a Sermon Series on Sacred Creation
2019.04.21 Easter
2019.04.19 Good Friday
2019.04.18 Maundy Thursday
2019.04.14 Palm Sunday: False Expectations Exceeded
2019.04.07 Something Old, Something New
2019.04.06 Homily in Remembrance of Margaret Johnson
2019.03.31 Grace as Both Priviledge and Forgiveness, Undeserved
2019.03.24 What is the Nature of His Game
2019.03.17 Divine Intimacy Through Trial and Tribulation
2019.03.10 When Vulnerable
2019.03.03 Transfiguration: A Presence Too Powerful to Deny
2019.02.24 Being As God Wills Us to Be
2019.02.17 Life Together
2019.02.10 A Christian Life A Constant Venture
2019.02.09 Memorial Service for Dot Atomanuk
2019.02.03 Raising Prophets
2019.01.27 No Division in a Bilateral Body
2019.01.13 Affirmation As Inclusivity
2019.01.06 Epiphany; Outsiders In
2019 Sermon Audio Recordings (please excuse background noises, etc, these are all made by volunteers in the congregation)
2019.12.24 Have We Seen the Star Proclaiming God's Glory
2019.12.22 Ready or not... Here I Come
2019.12.15 Get Ready... Get Set... Rejoice
2019.12.08 People Get Ready
2019.11.24 A Thanksgiving Pledge
2019.09.29 All Different and the Same?
2019.09.22 Guest Sermon by Jim Antal
2019.09.08 The Cost of Carrying the Cross
2019.08.18 What's This Trampling Out the Vintage About
2019.07.21 Unconvinced by Moses and the Prophets
2019.07.14 A Prophet's Plumb Line
2019.06.16 Strength Through Vulnerability
2019.06.09 Living Water, Pentecost, Holy Baptism
2019.05.19 The Praxis Principle
2019.05.12 God As She and Earth As Mother
2019.04.28 A Bible Obsessed With the Environment
2019.04.21 Easter: Resurrection Lesson from Notre Dame
2019.04.18 Maundy Thursday Meditation
2019.04.14 Palm Sunday: False Expectations Exceeded
2019.04.07 Something Old, Something New
2019.03.31 Grace as Both Priviledge and Forgiveness, Undeserved
2019.03.24 What Is the Nature of His Game
2019.03.17 Divine Intimacy Through trial and Tribulation
2019.03.10 When Vulnerable
2019.02.24 Being as God Wills Us to Be
2019.02.17 Life Together (Sermon and receiving of new members)
2019.02.10 A Christian Life A Constant Venture
2019.02.03 Raising Prophets
2019.01.20 Guest Sermon by Rev. Bryan Fulwider
2019.01.13 Affirmation as Inclusivity
2019 Videos
2018 Sermon Transcripts by Rev. Scott E. Couper
2018.12.23 The Maternity of Eternity
2018.12.16 Waiting for Now
2018.12.09 Please Be Patient. Someone Will Be With You Shortly
2018.12.02 Waiting for the Beginning, and the End, 2 December 2018, First Sunday of Advent
2018.11.25 Reclaiming Jesus
2018.11.18 Behold I Am Doing a New Thing
2018.11.11 Giving of Ourselves
2018.11.04 Your Will Be Done
2018.10.28 It's All About Proportion
2018.10.21 Giving From Abundance or Giving From Scarcity
2018.10.14 When God Seems Absent
2018.09.30 Network of Mutuality
2018.09.23 A Morphing of Messiah
2018.09.16 A Welcome Investment
2018.09.09 Jesus Responds Touché
2018.09.02 Mirror Mirror On the Wall
2018.08.26 Digesting Metaphors
2018.08.19 Divine Wisdom From a Mahatma
2018.08.12 Members of One Another
2018.08.05 No Best Used By Date
2018.07.22 Wherever You Are and Whoever You Are
2018.07.01 Wounded Together Healing Together
2018 Centre Church Sermon Audio Files
2018.12.30 Guest Sermon by Rev. Sandy Daly
2018.12.24 Christmas Eve Message
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