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A 21st Century Wisdom

September 14, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

NOTE TO READER: If you happened to listen to or read last Sunday's sermon, this newspaper column may sound familiar. I shrank it down to 500 words (or so), which is my limit for the newspaper, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: 21st century, Community, human evil

A Season of Grief

May 1, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A video version of this sermon follows the text “When he trawled so wide he should’ve trawled deeper.” ~From “Fishermen” by Francis Harvey Oh, heck yes! Jesus trawled way too wide and would have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Community, fishfry, grief

A word about grief

March 13, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

 ~A video version follows the text ~ This sermon did not leave from the station I expected, nor did it arrive at the destination I was aiming for. Just so you know. Last week we wrung out our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Community, grief, loss

A Spirit of Community

December 22, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

First of all, Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, whichever is best for you! This is not Christmas 2020, thank goodness. The only reason it’s not is the widespread accessibility of vaccinations. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Christmas, Community, interdependence

Boundaries

September 19, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Texts for preaching are from 17 Pentecost in the Revised Common Lectionary Video version appears below Well, here we are, left with Jeremiah’s complaint and the “Whose the greatest” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, Boundaries, Community

Don’t wait for the angels…

February 21, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll down for Video version  I’m starting all over again. This is a second stab at a sermon, the first one just didn’t seem right. It may have been okay if we weren’t in our eleventh month of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Community, Lent, spiritual practice

A Shot at Connecting

February 17, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“I got mine.” It sounds like an awful personal injury law firm commercial in which a supposed client crows at getting a financial settlement, as if it was a birthright. But instead, I am referring to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "I got mine", Community, connections, vaccine

Beloved Community

January 21, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Any true community event has an army of people behind it knitting things together, underneath it holding up parts that sag, and all around it picking up loose ends. So too the Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beloved Community, Community, MLK

A Wedding!

August 23, 2016 By Cam Miller 20 Comments

When my oldest daughter was three years old she was passed from lap to lap in the parish hall of the church I was serving. Each Sunday between the early and late morning worship services, an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Community, gratitude, Wedding

Finding Home

August 9, 2016 By Cam Miller 10 Comments

Spot, Sweetness 7, Café Aroma, Newport Natural, Opus. Opus is the latest coffee house in my life. A town is not home until those places that make it feel like home tether us to the earth there. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Community, Flexibility, Hospitality

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