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Rev. Annie McMillan
6 days ago4 min read
The Joy of Home
We’re deep into the Christmas season now, at least with regards to everyday life. Christmas movies and concerts and parties. The...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Dec 84 min read
The Fear of Home
Usually, we’re excited to go home. Home is a place to belong. It’s filled with memories, and family. And with Christmas inching ever...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Dec 14 min read
Time to Go Home
It’s that time of year again. Christmas decorations sparkle along main streets, store windows, and front yards. The wreaths are out,...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Nov 244 min read
The King We Need
Today is known as Christ the King Sunday, when the church gives thanks and praise for the sovereignty of Christ, who is Lord of all...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Nov 174 min read
Don’t be Surprised: An Advent Prelude
Advent starts in 2 weeks, a time when we focus on the arrival of Christ: first remembering that Christ promised to return and then...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Nov 104 min read
Just a Mite or Two
Historically the widow has been lifted up as a woman of great faith and stewardship whom we should emulate: the one who may give little,...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Nov 34 min read
Commitment Sunday: Dedicating Our Pledges
All of us have had saints come through our lives: men and women who helped us grow in our walk with Christ. A youth director, or Bible...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Oct 274 min read
The Joy of Giving: Embracing Generosity
This spring, I decided to start over with my hydroponic AeroGarden and grow cilantro and dill. I bought new pods without seeds in them...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Oct 203 min read
Bearing Fruit: The Impact of Generosity
In middle school and high school, I helped with the music during various Vacation Bible Schools. One summer I helped teach a song that...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Oct 134 min read
Rooted in Faith: The Foundation of Generosity
I have a black thumb. I can fit gardening successes on one hand: I grew little cucamelons one summer, and I managed to grow herbs in a...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Oct 64 min read
Malice Toward None: Love
During major election years, Resurrection Church does a campaign that works “to close the kindness gap in Kansas City.” This is the...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Sep 294 min read
Living Together on Uncommon Ground: Respect
The church in Corinth was full of division and schisms. Many in the church were poor: some were slaves and some were former slaves who...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Sep 234 min read
Listen More, Speak Less: Humility
This morning, we’re talking about humility, so I’d like to read from that introduction to this morning’s theme that I read at the...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Sep 154 min read
“The Polarization Within: Compassion”
There’s a window in the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. It’s called the resurrection window, and it connects three...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Sep 84 min read
"Blue and Red Make Purple: Kindness"
Be kind to each other. It seems really simplistic; naive, even. Jesus says our reward will be great if we “love [our] enemies, do good,...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
May 274 min read
“Trinity Matters”
Today is Trinity Sunday, the day many churches like to lift up the Trinity, that confusing three-in-one concept about God as...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
May 123 min read
“This Life Eternal”
God has given us eternal life. Typically, we interpret this to mean heaven: life everlasting after we die; Peter and the pearly gates....
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Rev. Annie McMillan
May 53 min read
“Family of God”
For many years now, there have been religious wars raging. I’m not talking Christianity versus Islam, or some kind of “War on God”. I’m...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Apr 284 min read
“More Love”
What is it about fear in today’s world? Fear seems to drive so much. Companies advertise by playing to basic fears. Politicians use fear...
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Rev. Annie McMillan
Apr 214 min read
“Love in Truth”
John 3:16 is a favorite verse for many, summing up our theology as we proclaim with Christ: “For God so loved the world that he gave his...
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