Spirit, Spiritual, Spirited Acts 2: 1-21, 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-13 June 8, 2014 Nathan Hosler   I recently read the book, “Babel No More: The search for the world’s most extraordinary language learners.” The writer set out to find hyperpolyglots. A polyglot is someone who speaks several languages. Add the prefix “hyper” to this…

  Shape of Text and Suffering 1 Peter 3:13-22 Nathan Hosler—May 25, 2014   We are shaped by many things: language, region, area of work, and perhaps a dialect. While living in Pennsylvania Dutch country Jenn started mimicking some of the sounds and ways of speaking. This pronunciation shows its face in many ways but…

WASHINGTON CITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Jeff Davidson May 18, 2014 WHO WANTS TO BE A MARTYR? Acts 7:55-60  

Light for seeing—Nathan Hosler—WCCOB March 30, 2014 1 Samuel 16:1-13, John 9:1-41, Ephesians 5:8-14 Sometime while Jenn and I were living in Pennsylvania for grad school I went for a run at Gretna. Though I was relatively new to trail running I had hiked and biked on the trails around Mt. Gretna my entire life….

WASHINGTON CITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Jeff Davidson March 23, 2014 I WILL BE STANDING THERE Exodus 17:1-7    John 4:5-42 When I was growing up, Sunday afternoons were Broadway time.  We’d come home from church and Mom would fix Sunday dinner, and while she was cooking Dad would turn on the record player and play…

Tempted? Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7, Matthew 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-19 by Nathan Hosler Yesterday at 4:45, long before we are typically even thinking about thinking about getting up, our alarm went off. We got up and quickly ate breakfast and gathered our things. By 7:30 we were standing with a crowd of 250. The lady with the…

WASHINGTON CITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Jeff Davidson February 23, 2014   BEING PERFECT Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18   Matthew 5:38-48 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23          Don’t worry – I haven’t forgotten about the scripture readings.  We’ll start getting to those in a minute.  When I was thinking about the various scripture readings suggested for today, one…

WASHINGTON CITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Jeff Davidson January 26, 2014   THE STRONGHOLD OF MY LIFE Psalm 27:1, 4-9    Matthew 4:12-23          I may have told this story before, but when has that ever stopped me?  Once upon a time Julia and I bought a little TV stand.  It wasn’t anything fancy; I think…

The Baptizer, the Baptized—Nathan Hosler (January 12, 2014) Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 10:34-43, Matthew 3:13-17 Our Gospel text shows Jesus coming to the river Jordan to be baptized by John the Baptizer. The second New Testament text in Acts tells of Peter proclaiming the story of Jesus, what came to be called “the Gospel” with a…

WASHINGTON CITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Jeff Davidson December 29, 2013   OUT OF EGYPT, NOT BETHLEHEM Matthew 2:13-23          How many of you have already taken down the tree and put away the Christmas decorations?  Some people are very quick about that kind of thing, while others will let the decorations linger into February…