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Sunday Sermons from Stone Village Church. A community of faith, committed to inclusivity of all people, and living out Christ's love in service to the world.
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Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue -- the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring “News From the Natural World,” a weekly gathering of climate change’s latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
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8/18/24 | Jonathan Grace | Our Lives Matter: Reintroducing Ourselves to Ourselves | 1st Kings 19: 9b-18
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This week's sermon, Our Lives Matter: Reintroducing Ourselves to Ourselves, shared Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey's book Our Lives Matter. In writing the book, Dr. Lightsey had to address the fact that her understanding of herself had shifted, and she had to come to terms with who she had become. We need to take the time to reintroduce ourselves to ourse…
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The riddle of our time is: How could we remain so passive, when the violence is so near and so well-known in every way. We know the perpetrators, their bank accounts, the location and operation of their greed. Every month for the last 14 months has been the hottest on record. The scientists who reported what weather to expect based on computer mode…
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131. The Accelerating Apocalypse and My 15 Minutes
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Like the tour with Neil Young last spring, we are being allowed to celebrate our radical Earth activism in a surprising new setting. In both cases, an opening was provided for us to walk out of our 99-seat storefront and shout Earthalujah! to millions.By Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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8/11/24 | Juan Pablo Herrera | Pay It No Mind | Philippians 4:4-9
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We shall continue to rejoice as we face hardships in life.By Urban Village Church
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130. The Day that ACTUAL Ate VIRTUAL Alive
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The storms and wildfires and floods are a daily apocalypse that we mistake for sense-surround blockbusters. The Earth's violent insistence on a new realism for its chief predator is beginning to move some of us. But we are years away from a new "Earth Movement”. We don't even have the most basic things all successful social movements have: hot musi…
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8/4/24 | Rev. Jonathan Grace | Kin-dom Come: Love and Humility | John 13: 1-17
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This week our sermon series on Emergent Strategy, Kin-dom Come: Love and Humility, included scripture from John 13: 1-17 Brown identifies love and humility as essential tools for transformation. These virtues can help us navigate the complexities of social change and build stronger, more resilient communities. This sermon will focus on the transfor…
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The necessary revolution is here in this extraordinary moment. Our only task is to live up to it. The Earth's 6th Extinction is not demanding a response within our quiver of desire, or our strategy, or even our reverence. It is happening, that's all. And a new Wisdom must come from us.By Reverend Billy and Savitri D
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7/28/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Kin-dom Come: Spiritual Makeover | Galatians 6:1-5
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This week's scripture is Galatians 6:1-5 This sermon shares that we must open up to relationships and urge to be deeper rather than just conversational. We should spend time with one another, share spiritual conversations, and grow together.By Urban Village Church
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The Earth is quickly changing us. Everything everywhere is undergoing unprecedented change and this change sees the surfacing of the once hidden Empress of Secrets. It is the Earth's gift in this time of apocalypse. Silicon Valley, the Pentagon and M and M's are camouflaging the surface around us with a thick coat of dullness, but the Earth is peel…
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7/21/24 | Rev Jonathan Grace | Kin-dom Come: Getting Strategic for Social Change | Acts 1:1-14
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Effective strategy for social change means making tough decisions, being disciplined, and staying focused on our goals. In this sermon, we will explore how Jesus and the early church employed strategic thinking to spread the Gospel and bring about transformative change, and how we can apply these principles to our context.…
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127. History Slows Down and Waits for Change
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The Sunday "Earthchxrch" services remain so fulfilling, the soaring voices with their justice lyrics delivered with the 200 mph wind of recent storms. The choir sings I Go The Mountain and I'm Filled with the Fabulous Unknown from our new album. And we celebrate in this Earth Riot some of our greatest "necessary interruptions": Sister Rosetta Tharp…
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Mark 4: 26-34By Pastor John Wooden
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7/14/24 | Dr Pamela Lightsey | Visioning: Seeing What We Cannot See | Philippians 3:12-21, Hebrews 11
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brown encourages us to practice visioning, to see and create what does not yet exist. This means imagining and believing in the possibilities beyond our current reality. As people of faith, we are called to dream big, envisioning a world where justice, peace, and love prevail. It is safe to say many of us are worried about the future. Genuine conce…
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126. Consumerism Has Disabled Our “What’s Important?” Gene
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Today’s Importance Exercise: What’s more important? Atmospheric rivers over the Pacific, or artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley? The rise in carbon units per million, or crypto currency market rates? Suicides among young native Americans or celebrities-on-the-cover-of-PEOPLE who got sober and remarried? The trillions in profits from toxins by…
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Mark 3: 20-22, 31-35By Pastor John Wooden
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125 The Post-Religious Church of the Fabulous Unknown
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Since the Earth's crisis gives us months or maybe years, gradualism is a faster kind of suicide. Every one of our prayers needs to be like an ambulance, flooring it right at the emergency. Scientists say that most of reality is a whirlwind of subatomic particles called Dark Energy. So, we are stranded on a desperate little human island, while Dark …
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7/07/24 | Dr Pamela Lightsey | Mindset Matters | Romans 7:14-25 and Romans 8:1-5
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This week we will explore Romans 7:14-25 and Romans 8:1-5. We talk about the love and relationship between the law of Moses and humans. We also share the freeing of human sin through love given to us.By Urban Village Church
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Mark 2 & 3By Pastor John Wooden
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124. A Village of Convicted Activists asks Neil Young
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Asks Neil to please name his band after the mystic who met George Armstrong Custer at Little BigHorn, and Neil, open your set with Cortez the Killer. Let in the Earth radicals from where? Who are they? … let the unknown arrestees take the stage to shout for the Earth’s life. Ask dazzling Daryl Hannah, can she please produce the harmonizing tree-hug…
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6/23/24 | Rev. Lois McCullen Parr | Shine | Romans 5:8
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Romans 5:8 shares that "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Our responsibility is to shine in this light.By Urban Village Church
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6/23/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Aging | Deuteronomy 34:5-9
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After watching over Israel for 40 years, Moses dies on Mount Nebo, not before seeing the promised land of Canaan from a distance. Moses also lays his hands on Joshua which symbolizes the transfer of authority (and spirit of wisdom and divine gifting) for leading Israel. In Deuteronomy 34:5-9, we explore rites of passage and love.…
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123. What Has Trash, Blacktop, Cars, and Unnatural Heat. And - the Earth!
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Yet our neighborhoods continue to drift toward a great mono-culture, deadly to play and resistance. The physical characteristics of the city are against the body, against the poor and people of color. We are more aware of the attack on us by the rich since Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Occupy Wall Street. These are the great freedom rides …
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Matthew 13: 1-9By Pastor John Wooden
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Dreams of liberation and laughter, freedom and love. When we get up our dreams turn into music and the more-than-human creatures sing in passionate harmonies, preparing to pull our dreams into action in broad daylight. The melody and beats that dreamily echo in our bodies make a common song shared by all living things as we march on the fossil pois…
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6/16/24 | Darren Calhoun | Come Out, Come In - Why Telling Your Story Matters | John 9:13-34
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This week's scripture reading is from John 9:13-34. In this text, we read about the miracles given to us. Pharisees react to Jesus' healing of a blind man, they seek explanations rather than accepting the faith of a miracle. Join us this week as we share our stories, our truth, and our miracles.By Urban Village Church
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6/9/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Hold on For the Blessing | Genesis 32:22-31
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Jacob is blessed and named Israel, as he having struggled with God and with humans and has overcome. The scripture reading is from Genesis 32:22-31By Urban Village Church
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121. Modern Life Was Supposed To Be This Dazzling, Shiny Thing.
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The Earth's every measurement, every single set of numbers we can give to the sky-rocketing heat, the sea-rise and wind-speed of storms and Iowa tornadoes and drowned polynesian islands... all the mass death of wild-life as well as the mass war of humans... it is all deadly-looking. But look we must, and the first thing we see is that many others, …
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120. Mockingbirds and John Coltrane Will Save us
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Turn to the Earth for your leadership NOW. How is this possible? Wait for direction from what Russel Means called ‘The Great Mystery’. Decrypt the wild life. Presidents should always not be sure of their answers. The only special quality that nation-states have, which make them unique, is that they are weaponized. Disarm nations and start over with…
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6/2/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Leaving | 2 Kings 2:1-12
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In 2 Kings 2:1-12, the Elijah is taken up to Heaven as Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. We explore Elijah's interaction with the prophets and trip with Elisha to Jericho.By Urban Village Church
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Luke 1: 26-38By Pastor John Wooden
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The danger continues. The big boys are up there messing with mother nature while I'm brushing my teeth in the suburb with no name. And entire towns are disappearing in the downpours and fires... But one person's Nessun Dorma is another person's Screaming Mountain Gopher. One person's Thus Spake Zarathustra is another person's Go Away Bird. The shad…
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5/26/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Moving | Matthew 8:18-22
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This week we read the passages in Matthew 8:18-22. Join us as we talk about the assurances of life.By Urban Village Church
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5/19/24 | Pamela Lightsey | Who Will We Say That We Are? | Matthew 16:13-18
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Join us this Pentecost Sunday as we celebrate and honor 50 days (seven weeks) after Easter and 10 days after the Ascension. We worship as we explore Matthew 16:13-18. Our sermon this week is "Who Will We Say That We Are?"By Urban Village Church
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The con-men and con-women look in at us and claim our insides. They introduce us to our own interior, our identity is their property. THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL KEEP US MODERATE, UNABLE TO CHALLENGE THE POISONERS. THE MASS EXTINCTION OF NATURAL LIFE AND ITS PARALLEL CRIME OUR EXTREME WEALTH AND EXTREME POVERTY…. THE MASS MORTALITY WILL ACCELERATE. Shopp…
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John 15By Pastor John Wooden
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