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This page lists sermons offered by our Senior Pastor and guest clergy, in reverse chronological order. Sermons are usually, though not always, presented at Cross Creek Community Church. All sermons are in Adobe .pdf format.
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09/05/2010Not So Fast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/29/2010Come to the Party----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/22/2010You Are Set Free----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/15/2010Reading the Cloud----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/08/2010Practicing Faith
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
08/01/2010Greedy for Love
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
07/25/2010Someone Worth Talking To
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
07/18/2010Mary, Martha and a Bowl of Fruit
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
07/11/2010The Good Samaritan
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
07/04/2010Outside the Lines
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
06/27/2010The Place God Calls You
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/20/2010When Big Butter Jesus Went Up In Flames----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/13/2010Who Speaks for God----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/06/2010Courageous Compassion - Alexander
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/30/2010Welcome to Hope
 Offered by Rev. Dale Brown
05/23/2010Walls or Windmills----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/16/2010A People for this World----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/09/2010A People of Healing----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/02/2010A People Reaching Outside the Box----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/25/2010Integrity of Creation Sunday----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Janice Kemp
04/18/2010Amidst a People Still Breathing Threats and Murder----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/04/2010Now the Green Blade Rises - Easter Sunday----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/28/2010Out of the Garden and into the Streets----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/21/2010Bearing the Seed----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/14/2010Feasting from the Garden----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/07/2010Put Manure On It----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/28/2010Before and After----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/21/2010Gardening East of Eden----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/14/2010Everyday Transfigurations----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/07/2010Into the Deep----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/31/2010Can You Hear Me Now?----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Daryl Fairchild
01/24/2010Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/17/2010Martin Luther King Day Celebration----------PodCast
 Offered by Marsha Bonhart-Neilson
01/10/2010The New Authority----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/03/2010By Another Road----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/27/2009The Word Was Made Flesh----------PodCast
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
12/24/2009Look Well to the Growing Edge----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/13/2009And Now For The WOW Factor!----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/06/2009Get Ready For a Radical Remodel----------PodCast
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
12/01/2009Bread in the Desert - World Aids Day
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/29/2009Out of Plumb and Not Up to Code
 Offered by Rev. Beth Holten
11/22/2009The Practice of Pronouncing Blessings: Benediction----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/15/2009The Practice of Being Present to God: Prayer----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/08/2009The Practice of Carrying Water: Physical Labor----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/01/2009The Practice of Feeling Pain: Breakthrough----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/25/2009The Practice of Saying No: Sabbath----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/18/2009The Practice of Living with Purpose: Vocation----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/11/2009The Practice of Encountering Others: Community----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/04/2009World House or Tree House?----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Barbara Battin
09/27/2009Size Matters----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge
09/20/2009What Are You Arguing About?
 Offered by Rev. Roselin Runnels
09/13/2009The Practice of Getting Lost: Wilderness----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/30/2009The Practice of Walking on the Earth: Groundedness----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/23/2009The Practice of Wearing Skin: Incarnation----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/16/2009The Practice Of Paying Attention: Reverence----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/09/2009The Practice of Waking Up To God: Vision----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/26/2009It's Good To Be The King
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins, Seminary Intern
07/19/2009Don't Fence Me In
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins, Seminary Intern
07/12/2009Shall We Dance?
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins, Seminary Intern
07/05/2009The Trouble With Kings
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins, Seminary Intern
06/21/2009Jonathan and David's Love----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/14/2009Power of the Small
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/07/2009The Spirit in Ezekial----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/31/2009Weaving WIth the Spirit----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/24/2009I Spill Milk - You Spill Milk - We All Spill Milk
 Offered by Rev. Tom Harry
05/17/2009A Life of Friendship----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/10/2009Nurturing Life----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/03/2009Abundant Life----------PodCast
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins, Seminary Intern
04/26/2009Life For the Earth: Respect For All
 Offered by Dr. Kimberly Lockwood
04/12/2009EASTER - Recalled To Life----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/10/2009GOOD FRIDAY - Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/05/2009Living in the Present, Yearning for a Future----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/29/2009Dayenu----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/22/2009Love is a Many Splendored and Messy Thing----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/15/2009Crafting Unfinished Stories----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/08/2009Facing Our Realities----------PodCast
 Offered by Ruth Hopkins
03/01/2009Trust The Process----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/25/2009Bring It On, Jack! (Ash Wednesday)
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/22/2009A Sense Of The Sacred----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/15/2009Jubilee
 Offered by Rev. Roselin Runnels
02/08/2009The Conscience of the Free Market----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/01/2009A Descending Spiral----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/25/2009God Leads Us By Desire
 Offered by Rev. Roselin Runnels
01/11/2009Immerse Yourself----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/04/2009Everything Must Change - Jesus, Global Crisis, and a Revolution of Hope
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/28/2008The Long Wait----------PodCast
 Offered by Josie Tolton
12/21/2008Birthing a Promise----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/14/2008Beyond the Ruins----------PodCast
 Offered by Rabbi Judy Chessin
12/07/2008Between What Is And What Is To Be----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/30/2008Beware, Keep Alert
 Offered by Josie Tolton, Student Intern
11/23/2008Are We There Yet?----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/16/2008Say What? The Question of God's Presence----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/09/2008What or Who Has My Heart? The Question of Ultimate Worship----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/02/2008Does That Answer Your Question? The Question Of Absolutes
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/26/2008We Are Not Alone
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Jack Smith
10/19/2008God, Are You With Us Or Not?----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/12/2008True Colors - National Coming Out Day----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, UCC
09/28/2008Where's_Mine? The Question Of Gods Provision----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/14/2008Why Me? The Question of Fate
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/07/2008Remember That? The Question of Good and Evil
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/31/2008Lessons in Love
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/24/2008Who, Me? The Question of Competence----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/17/2008Which Way to Go? The Question of Choices----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/10/2008Waking Up Green and Sober
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/03/2008The Broken Pieces----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/27/2008Hidden in Plain Site----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/20/2008Wheat and Weeds----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/22/2008The Sacrament of Failure----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/08/2008Disciples - Learn, Steward, Witness----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Bill Youngkin
06/01/2008Louder Than Words----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/25/2008Bird Watching And Flower Gazing----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/18/2008A Sacred Conversation About Race----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Linda Burrs
05/11/2008Life-Giving Spirit
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/03/2008A Community of Reconnection----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/27/2008An Advocate of Love----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/20/2008Greater Works----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/13/2008Wonderful Words of Life----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/06/2008Ordinary Resurrection----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/30/2008Samaritan Homeless Clinic - Sermon----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Judith K. Barr
03/30/2008Samaritan Homeless Clinic - Testimony----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Dori Thompson, M.D.
03/23/2008Go, Mary, Go!----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/21/2008One Willing to Die - part 1----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Robert E. Jones
03/21/2008One Willing To Die - part 2----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/16/2008Who Is This Jesus?----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/09/2008Undoing the Wrappings of Death----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/07/2008Lenten Revival - Friday Service----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel
03/06/2008Lenten Revival - Thursday Service----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel
03/02/2008I Was Blind, but Now I See----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/24/2008Give Me This Water----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/17/2008Nurturing Our Longing For God----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/10/2008Evolution Sunday----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Bill Trollinger and Dr. Susan Biesecker
02/09/2008Evolution Sunday----------PodCast
 Offered by Dr. Bill Trollinger and Dr. Susan Biesecker
02/06/2008A Glad Lent
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
02/03/2008The Light Is Everything----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/27/2008You Are the Light of the World----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/20/2008How the Light Gets In....and Out----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/13/2008Soaked In Light----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
01/06/2008The Light That Shines and Guides----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/24/2007To YOU is Born a Savior----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/23/2007Signs of Gods Love----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
12/16/2007Worship cancelled due to weather
 
12/03/2007Wake Up You Sleepy Heads----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/25/2007Holding it Together in a Falling Apart World----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/18/2007A Future that is Different than Today----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
11/04/2007Hope for the Lost
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/28/2007Fighting the Good Fight, Keeping the Faith
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/21/2007All God's Children
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
10/14/2007Community and Gratitude----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Roselin Runnels
10/07/2007There May Yet Be Hope----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/30/2007We're Not In Kansas Anymore!----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/19/2007Searching, Finding, Rejoicing----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/09/2007The Shaping Hand of God----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
09/02/2007Angels Unaware----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Nancy Dietsch
08/26/2007Sabbath-Keeping that Heals----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/19/2007Finding God in Community----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/12/2007Come Let Us Argue it Out----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
08/05/2007Greedy For...----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/22/2007Mary Martha Church----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/15/2007Compassionate Neighbors----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
07/08/2007Bishop Joseph Sprague----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Joseph Sprague, Retired Methodist Bishop
06/24/2007That All Might Be One
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Janice Kemp
06/17/2007Already Forgiven----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/10/2007The Power Of Our Touch----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
06/03/2007A Community of Memory and Hope----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Nancy Dietsch
05/27/2007When Life Breaks Forth----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/20/2007Baptism - Referring Our Lives Back to Jesus----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/13/2007Practicing Hospitality
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
05/06/2007Risking the New
 Offered by Rev. Alecia Schroedel
04/29/2007Tabitha's Faith Based Initiative
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/22/2007Still Breathing Threats and Murder----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/15/2007Whose Authority?
 Offered by Rev. Ruth M. Brandon
04/08/2007The Common Thing----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
04/06/2007Hallowed Space: A Good Friday Ministry
 Offered by Rev. Nancy Ellen Dietsch
04/05/2007Experiences that Transform Us from the Inside Out
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Janice C. Kemp
04/01/2007Ride On, Jesus, Ride On
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/18/2007Love That Welcomes----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor
03/11/2007Thirsting----------PodCast
 Offered by Rev. Dr. Michael D. Castle, Pastor