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Meditation: "It's not that we don't know the truth; we do know it, but we actively push it away or ignore it." -Marc Ian Barash
Meditation: "If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth, Friend, listen; the God I love is inside," -Kabir
Meditation: "No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights." -C. S. Lewis
Meditation: "The human mind in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth." -Eckhart Tolle
Meditation: "Both were dwellers in deep places (one in the dark bowels of the ships and great fish and wounded pride. The other in the silvery belly of the seas). Both heard God saying "go!" but the whale did as he was told." -Lucy Shaw
Meditation: "Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and aliens in this world, to abstain from sinful passions which attack the soul." -Peter the Apostle
Meditation: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that," -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress; Life remains a blessing, although you cannot bless." -W. H. Auden
Meditation: "Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "In God's holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints." -Frederick Buechner
Meditation: "There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less." -Annie Dillard
Meditation: "But Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart." -Luke
Sermon: Coming for to Carry Me Home (Pastor John Burns) (December 20, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: Band of Angels, Coming After Me (Pastor John Burns) (December 13, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Pastor John Burns) (December 6, 2020) by University Baptist Church
Meditation: "The more you believe and trust God, the more limitless your possibilities become for your family, your career, for your life." -Rick Warren
Meditation: "Listen to me House of Israel; I carried you from your conception, I supported you from your birth; and even when you are old, I am with you." -God, according to Isaiah
Meditation: "Why spend your money for what is not bread, your wages for what fails to satisfy?" -Isaiah
Meditation: "Attention animated by desire is the whole foundation of religious practices." -Simone Weil
Meditation: "See what great love God has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are." -The Apostle John
Meditation: "You can sing pretty, but there's a different way to sing if you want to call out to gods or cry out to the Spirit or disrupt the weather." -Cary Ann from Shovels and Rope
Meditation: "There is no worldly reward for our spiritual efforts. There isn't even a connection. The payoff for turning to God is more God, not more world." -Hugh Prather
Meditation: "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". -Henri Nouwen
Meditation: "It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either." -Rabbi Tarfon
Meditation: "Pay attention. Stay awake and totally alert. See with receptive eyes and discover a world of ceaseless wonders." -Fredric and Mary Brussat
Meditation: "Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference." -David Oxbury Augsberg
Meditation: "Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible," -Corrie Ten Boom
Meditation: "There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meditation: "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." -Iris Murdoch
Meditation: "Prayer does not change God, but it changes [the one] who prays." -Soren Kierkegaard
Meditation: "The power of faith is trans-formative. It can be utilized in your own personal life to change your individual condition, and it can be used as a lifeline of spiritual strength to change a nation." -John Lewis
Meditation: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -E. E. Cummings
YouTube Video Link of this Service: https://youtu.be/D3TebBsSC0M
Meditation: "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." -Maya Angelou
Video of this Service Link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCpESNoxwTw
Meditation: There's a big difference between charity and justice. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table." -Bill Moyers
Meditation: "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer
Meditation: "One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything." -Daniel Berrigan
Meditation: "The cross is a reversal of all religion. God spills blood to open our hearts to get to us. Before that, we spilled our blood to placate God." -Richard Rohr
Meditation: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman
Meditation: "We had to stop what we were doing to see what we had done." -Chris Dombrowski
Meditation: "Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness." -Desmond Tutu
Meditation: "As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could." -Carrie Fisher
Meditation: "We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us." -Marianne Williamson
Featuring: Michael Hayes, tenor
Meditation: "The church must be like a lighthouse in the following ways: 1. Warns of danger 2. Provides a safe harbor 3. Is stronger than the storm 4. Shines the brightest in the fog" -Author Unknown
Meditation: Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last. -Luke 23:46
You may also watch our Sunday Easter Service by clicking the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjkkG2MJog07FwUKf5YQoIg
Meditation: "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Meditation: "Hear the lonesome whippoorwill; he sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low and I'm so lonesome, I could cry." -Hank Williams
Meditation: "There is a crown there which nobody's head but your can ever wear. There is a seat in which none but yourself can sit. There is a harp that will be silent until your fingers strike its strings." -Charles Spurgeon
Meditation: "All joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'." -C. S. Lewis
Meditation: "Momma's not a shrink, daddy's not a bank, and God is not a wishing well." -Eric Church
Meditation: "You cannot change a life with willpower. It happens only with grace and community." -Ronald Rolheiser
Meditation: "Our vocation is nothing else but to belong to Christ. The work that we do is only a means to put our love for Christ into living action." -Mother Theresa
Meditation: "Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong." -David Whyte
Meditation: 'If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson
Meditation: "In learning to pray, no laboratory is needed but a room; no apparatus but ourselves. The living God is the field of force to which we enter in prayer, and the only really fatal failure is to stop praying and not to begin again." -Douglas Steere
Meditation: "Forgetting the past, I press on toward the goal of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." -Philippians 3:14
Sermon: Pondered in Her Heart (Pastor John Burns) (December 22, 2019) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: Good News of Great Joy (Pastor John Burns) (December 15, 2019) by University Baptist Church
Sermon: The Light Shines in the Darkness (Pastor John Burns) (December 1, 2019) by University Baptist Church
Meditation: "Blessing is the art of harvesting the wisdom of the invisible world. From day to day it offers us new gifts." -John O'Donohue
Meditation: "I've found a song let me sing it with you, let me say it now while meaning is new, but wouldn't be good if we can say it together?" -Mary Travers
Meditation: "If the question could be put to a popular vote, I do not believe a single state would vote for the coming of Jesus to reign here as he reigns in heaven. I do not believe a single county, city, ward in this city, or a single precinct in this country would vote for his coming." -Dwight Moody
Meditation: "Let's have testimony time, right here, right now, no notes, no pulpit to hide behind. Just stand up and give your testimony. Tell us what the spirit has been doing in your life recently." -Dr. James Forbes
Meditation: "The Grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of God will stand forever." -Isaiah
Meditation: "I have heard you and have seen the way you are being treated in Egypt. I tell you now that I will lead you out of your oppression. . . to the land of milk and honey." -God
Meditation: " Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food." -The prophet Isaiah
Meditation: "When in anguish over any human violence done to innocent victims, we ask of God, "How could you let this happen?" It's well to remember that God at that very moment is asking the exact same question of us." -William Sloan Coffin
Meditation: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us, we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." -C. S. Lewis
Meditation: "Step by step you will lead me. And I will follow you all of my days." -Rich Mullins
Meditation: "When God says that you are a sinner-believe him. When God says you are forgiven-believe him." -Will Campbell
Meditation: "We are called to dream side by side with people with few resources and to celebrate a life committed to leaving this world a little better for our passage through it." -Joe Dearborn
Meditation: "If I can help somebody as I pass along, then my living will not be in vain." -Alma Bazel Androzzo
Meditation: "Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." -Joseph Campbell
Meditation: "Evangelism is leaving the person I've met with better understanding of God than they would have had if they never met me." -Dennis Pethers
Meditation: "We credit our shared passion for service, as well as our ability to give each other space, for the longevity of our marriage." -Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter
Meditation: "Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words." -St. Francis of Assisi
Meditation: "Crying is how your body speaks when your mouth can't explain the way you feel." -Unknown
Meditation: "I was teaching what I did not live, living what I did not acknowledge and being oblivious to the difference." -W. Paul Jones
Meditation: "Anxiety comes from not being able to know the world you're in, not being able to orient yourself in your own existence." -Rollo May
Meditation: "What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country." -Robert F. Kennedy
Meditation:"Simplicity is not about possessions neither having nor lacking them but about being possessed." -Marilyn Brown Oden
Meditation: "Our gifts are the many ways in which we express our humanity." -Henri Nouwen
Meditation: "Good morning, Pooh Bear,"said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. -A. A. Milne
Meditation: "God's call is loosening your roots in false ground, that you might come free from all you have outgrown." -John O'Donohue
Meditation: "I thought that you were silent and that it was my mother who was speaking; but you were not silent; you spoke to me through her." -St. Augustine
Meditation: "I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes." -Bob Goff
Meditation: "If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God." -Dorothy Day
Meditation: "Guilt is the last stronghold of pride. 'Guilty' represents my opinion of myself. 'Forgiven' may represent yours or God's opinion, and I'm too proud to let others do for me what I cannot do for myself." -William Sloan Coffin
Meditation: "I do now believe that anything that confuses reality and unreality, or that attempts to equate the two, is the devil's own work." -Alan Judd
Meditation: "Christ is the center of our home. A guest at every meal, a silent listener in every conversation." -Author Unknown
Meditation: "What fascinates me so much is that every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love," -Henri Nouwen
Meditation: "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." -Corrie Ten Boom
Meditation: "God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine." -Breeanna Bisseke
Meditation: "I seek courage to do the true thing. To see the true thing is not necessarily to do the true thing. It may be that it takes a heightened form of courage to do the true thing." -Howard Thurman
Meditation: "Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Savior am happy and blest. Watching and waiting, looking above, filled with His goodness, lost in his Love." -Fanny J. Crosby
Meditation: "When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." -Maya Angelou
Meditation: "The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, Let us worship God." -Eugene Peterson
Meditation: "Seminaries need to spend less time teaching ministers who to study the Bible and more time teaching them how to hear the word of God." -Jim Wallis
Meditation: "Those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen." -The Apostle Paul
Meditation: "If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company." -Charles H. Spurgeon
Meditation: "Just a closer walk with thee; grant it Jesus if you please, daily walking close to thee, let it be dear Lord, let it be." -Unknown
Meditation: "Through eternity my glad song shall be of the Savior's redeeming love." -Albert Fisher
Meditation: "By learning how to love ourselves, we learn how to love our neighbor. By learning how to love our neighbor, we learn how to love the stranger. And by learning how to love the stranger, we learn how to love God." -Rachel Timoner
Meditation: "Help us God. Teach all people of all faiths, in all countries all over the world, to believe that the peace that seems so far off is in fact within our reach." -Naomi Levy
Meditation: "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops--at all." -Emily Dickinson
Meditation: "Once we come to know that inner, holy place more beautiful and precious than any place we can travel to, we want to be there and be spiritually fed." -Henri Nouwen
Meditation: "The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry." -Simone Weil
Meditation: "Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?" -The Prophet Isaiah
Sermon: When Beliefs Become Bypass (Pastor Tom Rodgerson) (November 4, 2018) by University Baptist Church
Meditation: "To trust God in the light is nothing. But trust him in the dark is faith." -C. H. Spurgeon
Meditation: "May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?" -W. H. Auden
Meditation: "There are miracles, in the strangest of places. There are miracles, everywhere you go. It's a cosmic concerto and it stirs my soul." -Bill Fay
Meditation: "No generation can live off the faith of the previous generation. Every generation needs a firsthand faith." -C. P. Hia
Meditation: "No part of us needs to be rejected or denied, but only educated, healed, forgiven and set free in a new form." -Richard Rohr
Meditation: "The only faith that wears and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience." -James Russell Lowell, American Poet
Meditation: "I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me." -The Apostle Paul
Meditation: "The only temptation for man [woman] is to be abandoned to his [her] own resources in the presence of evil." -Simone Weil
Meditation: "Except for Jesus we would all suffer the logical consequences of the deification of the Self." -Walter Wangerin
Meditation: "Confusion, anger, depression,violence and conflict arise when humans forget who they are." -Eckhart Tolle
Meditation: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." -Mother Teresa
Meditation: "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all." -Cecil Frances Alexander
Meditation: "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void but out of chaos." -Mary Shelley
Meditation: "On the night before he died, Jesus demonstrated that the space between our Lord and us is filled with a towel." -Walter Brueggemann
Meditation: "The Words of your mouth are better than thousands of gold and silver pieces." -David
Meditation: "Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith." -Jennifer Young
Meditation: "Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love, hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above." -Henry Van Dyke
Meditation: "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: but only he who sees, takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries and daub their natural faces unaware." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Meditation: "One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power." -Wayne Stiles
Meditation: "Athletes deny themselves all sorts of things. They do this to win a laurel wreath, even though it withers. We, on the other hand, do so to win an imperishable crown." -The apostle Paul
Meditation: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." -J. R. R. Tolkien
Meditation: "I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as seed, goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." -Dawna Markova
Meditation: "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God: for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride sdorns herself with her jewels." -Isaiah
Meditation: "But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." -Matthew 6:33
Easter Sunday
Meditation: "Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." -Jesus
Meditation: "To forgive is to deliberately offer goodness in the face of your own pain to the one who was unfair to you." -Robert Enright
Meditation: ""Forgiveness comes from within you as a freely chosen response of mercy to a person who is unjust." -Robert Enright
Meditation: "Forgiveness cannot reverse what has happened to you, but it can reverse your reactions now to what has happened," -Robert Enright
Meditation: "Resentment occurs when anger not only comes to visit but sits down in our hearts, takes off its stinky shoes, and makes itself too much at home." -Robert Enright
Meditation: "It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time...but that it's too late for us." -Annie Dillard
Meditation: "Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the Incarnate Deity, Pleased with flesh with us to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel." -Charles Wesley
Meditation: "Saw the glory, heard the story, tidings of a gospel true. Thus rejoicing, free from sorrow, praises voicing, greet the morrow; Christ the babe was born for you." - A Polish Carol
Meditation: "For that child so dear and gentle is our Lord in heaven above; And he leads his children on to the place where he has gone." - Cecil Alexander
Meditation: "When peace shall over all the earth, its ancient splendors fling, and the whole world give back the song which now the angels sing." -Edmund Sears
Meditation: "I don't care too much for money, cause money can't buy me love." -John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Meditation: "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be worthy to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own works we have given to you." -King David
Meditation: "Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Words of God." -Martin Luther
Meditation: "Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors and family will ever see." -Wanda E. Brunstetter
Meditation: "Every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison." -James, the brother of Jesus
Meditation: "The truth is you turned away yourself and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew and that's why everything you do has some weird failure in it." -Kabir
Meditation: "Walked a mile with pleasure, she chattered all the way. Left me none the wiser with all she had to say. Walked a mile with sorrow, never a word said she. But oh the things I learned from her, when sorrow walked with me." - Barry McGuire
Meditation: "By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies." -Isaiah
Meditation: "He serves you best who is not anxious to hear from you what he wills, as to will what he hears from you." -St. Augustine
Meditation: "A miracle is nothing but higher laws made manifest on a lower level." -Rubin Hurricane Carter
Meditation: "There was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages standing before the throne of God." -John
Meditation: "I stress that prayer is a pretty ordinary, everyday kind of thing. Yes, it has its high moments, but a lot of prayer is just a matter of showing up." -Roberta Bondi
Meditation: "Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done." -Woman at the Well