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  • Sermon: Strange Covenant
    February 28, 2021 Psalm 22:23-31Mark 8:31-38 by Eric Anderson The fledglings were, well, fledged. Their wing feathers had grown in, and they’d taken their first flights. Parents and children and other parents and other children and grandmothers and grandfathers had begun to gather into the flocks of early summer. There were ‘alawi (or Hawai’i Creeper) […]
  • Sermon: Lift Up Your Soul
    February 21, 2021 Psalm 25:1-10Mark 1:9-15 by Eric Anderson The young lau’ipala didn’t want to go to school. That’s not all that unusual for a young lau’ipala, or a yellow tang in English. They’re not generally a schooling fish, unlike the moi or the ‘ahi, at least when they’re young. Like most of those his […]
  • Sermon: Keep Silent
    February 14, 2021 2 Kings 2:1-12Mark 9:2-9 by Eric Anderson The myna was certain that the kolea couldn’t talk. Initially, of course, that had to do with the myna himself. It’s hard to demonstrate that you can talk if the bird talking to you won’t stop talking. That’s what happened, of course. The myna settled […]
  • Sermon: Everyone is Searching for You
    February 7, 2021 Isaiah 40:21-31Mark 1:29-39 by Eric Anderson A long time ago, it’s said, the mynas fought all the time. You and I think they fight all the time, but in the old days they really did fight all the time. Arguments, wing flutters, cries and screeches, and of course the occasional hard peck […]
  • Sermon: Recognized
    January 31, 2021 Deuteronomy 18:15-20Mark 1:21-28 by Eric Anderson I’m not quite sure how it happened. One moment the honu was happily eating away at those underwater grasses, and the next moment he was choking. He rose to the surface as quickly as he could, trying to dislodge something hard that had somehow got into […]

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