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    How Being Jacob’s Mother Changed My Faith

    I know I seem a little old to be giving a senior sermon, even a college senior sermon, but I am grateful to speak this morning on behalf of Jacob, who is finishing out his public school education this week at CJ Greene Education Center. I was pregnant with Jacob when Scott and I joined College Park, 22 years ago, and it is not an understatement to say that without my church family, and the remarkable staff here, that I would not have arrived at Jacob’s third decade of life as a person of faith. But that faith, thankfully, is not the same faith I started on the journey of…

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    The Community Band of Zion

    by Blair Ramsey Psalm 46, NRSVUE One summer, our youth group took a trip to Puerto Rico to take part in relief efforts after a couple seasons of devastating hurricanes for the country. Outside of our work days, we ate an egregious amount of rice and beans and spent plenty of time plotting the only kind of trouble a bunch of teenagers at a church camp-with other churches present, might. We traveled in fifteen-passenger vans, and without an aux cord, whatever was on the radio at the time became the playlist of the trip. If you’ve ever listened to a radio, you know that if you listen long enough you’ll…

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    Transgender Sermon

    Sermon by Michael: A Baptist Thinks About Transgender Persons, May 29, 2016 What to learn more? See GLAAD’s Transgender 101 FAQ. Intro from GLAAD Transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate. Gender identity is a person’s internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or someone outside of that gender binary). For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match. People in the transgender community may describe themselves using one (or more) of a wide variety of terms, including (but not limited to)…