Sermons

Timothy Kim - Nothing Human is Alien - July 12th, 2015

Tim Kim ·

Co-founder Tim Kim talks about the concept of the wounded healer and how we can be sources of healing for each other.

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Readings:
“Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty that the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends’ eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could've done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.”
-The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen

3 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! He is the compassionate Father and God of all comfort. 4 He’s the one who comforts us in all our trouble so that we can comfort other people who are in every kind of trouble. We offer the same comfort that we ourselves received from God. 5 That is because we receive so much comfort through Christ in the same way that we share so many of Christ’s sufferings. 6 So if we have trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is to bring you comfort from the experience of endurance while you go through the same sufferings that we also suffer. 7 Our hope for you is certain, because we know that as you are partners in suffering, so also you are partners in comfort.
-2 Corinthians 1:3-7

Sermons

Keri Anderson - Jesus and the Canaanite Woman - May 17th, 2015

Tim Kim ·

Pastoral Intern Keri Anderson talks about a difficult text in the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus' is being whack to a Canaanite woman. 

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Matthew 15:21-28
Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’ Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was healed instantly. 

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Set List on May 17th, 2015

Tim Kim ·

I Need Thee Every Hour (Old Hymn, Caleb Darger Version)

Don't Knock (Mavis Staples/Staples Singers)

Jesus Etc. (Wilco)

Let Us Break Bread Together (Spiritual)

Heavy Load (The Mighty Clouds of Joy, edited by us for singability) 

Sermons

Patrick Derdall - I Hate Myself in Order to Love Myself - May 3rd, 2015

Tim Kim ·

Patrick Derdall tackles one of the more confusing and controversial teachings of Jesus: "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple." This sermon includes feedback, questions, and stories from the community that came up in the midst. 

Patrick Derdall is a long time member of the Root and Branch community and student at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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Full bible passage from Luke 14: 25-33:
Now large crowds were traveling with him; and he turned and said to them, ‘Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, “This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.” Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace. So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.

The other two readings, from the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Charles S. Pierce are not in the recording, nor do we have the correct excerpts to put up at this time. Just imagine that they were somewhat interesting in a philosophical sort of way.

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Set List on May 3rd, 2015

Tim Kim ·

We're going to try and post the music we do each service with youtube links and what not (when available). May dope music fill your life forever.

I need the Lord to Help Me (Old Gospel)

Lonesome Valley (Pete Seger version)

Union (Teen Daze)

Despair (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Strange Things Happening Everyday (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)