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2015-10-14T19:59:36-04:00

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Benediction

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Benediction John 21:15-19 Who knows how to plan a worship service like today’s worship service? Turns out none of us in the church office do! So, my amazing colleague Jason Smith did a bit of research, looking back over these past 11 years and specifically back to the first time I ever stood in this pulpit. When he did, he found that the day I preached my candidacy sermon and this congregation voted to call me as pastor, was June... Read more

Being the Church

Speaking from the Pulpit

2015-10-14T19:59:36-04:00

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Liturgy for a New World

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Calvary had the holy honor of affirming the ordination of Rev. Allyson Robinson this past Sunday. As more LGBTQ brothers and sisters gather the courage and step into the opportunity of a fullness of life on every level, the church has the wondrous opportunity to be present in these beautiful moments, to name the work of God in a life and in the world, and to declare for the world the blessing of God. Below is the liturgy we used on... Read more

Answering the Call

Being the Church

2015-10-14T19:59:36-04:00

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A Curious Community

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

A Curious Community Matthew 28:16-20 Genesis 1:27-28 A version of this sermon was preached at Calvary Baptist Church on Trinity Sunday in 2008. Here’s a reprise! I just love today’s Gospel passage. The disciples met Jesus up on a Galilean mountain and it was a joyful reunion. Then Jesus gave them marching orders to go out into the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit—some... Read more

Being the Church

Speaking from the Pulpit

2015-10-14T19:59:36-04:00

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Transitions

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

As many of you know, after many long months of prayerful discernment on my part and the part of The Riverside Church in New York, yesterday I accepted a call to become that church’s seventh Senior Minister. This decision represents a big transition in the life of our family, a transition full of sadness and excitement and fear and anticipation. We will now begin the process of saying goodbye to our dear church family at Calvary Baptist Church in DC... Read more

Answering the Call

2015-10-14T19:59:36-04:00

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Unlocked

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Delivered at The Riverside Church June 8, 2014. Listen to the sermon here and watch video stream here. Unlocked Acts 2:1-21 Good morning, Riverside community. It’s such an honor to be with you this morning, and after these weeks of getting to know each other in various expressions, it means even more to me to have the honor of standing here in your pulpit this morning. So, here we find ourselves, called together today to the work of worship in one... Read more

Answering the Call

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Speaking from the Pulpit

2015-10-14T19:59:37-04:00

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Dear Calvary

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Dear Calvary Family, I write to you as I’m making my way to New York City to preach this weekend at The Riverside Church. You have been in my thoughts and heart so often over the last several weeks as so much change has come suddenly to all our lives. And while I am not yet able to speak to you in person, I do have a few thoughts I’d like to send your way. In many ways, that April... Read more

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Living in Relationship

2015-10-14T19:59:37-04:00

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Believe (Tangible)

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Believe (Tangible) John 14:1-14 We’ve been talking these past few weeks, since Easter, about what it means to believe. There’s a reason we’ve been doing that, of course: following along behind Jesus and his disciples, we’ve lived through quite an unbelievable turn of events. And with resurrection hanging in the air, we all—at some point—have asked ourselves whether or not we can really believe. We’d like to be able to be a bit formulaic in our understanding of what it... Read more

Speaking from the Pulpit

2015-10-14T19:59:37-04:00

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Poetry Corner

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Accepting This Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all of it rehearsal for the majesty of being held. The dream is awakened when thinking I love you and life begins when saying I love you and joy moves like blood when embracing others with love. My efforts now turn from trying to outrun suffering to accepting love wherever I can find it. Stripped of causes and plans and things to strive for,... Read more

Curating Wisdom

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Believe (Relational)

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Believe (Relational) John 10:1-10 Well, here we are. We’ve made it through the darkness of Lent and have emerged, squinting in the bright light of resurrection. If we’re paying attention, we should be feeling a bit of disorientation. We’ve hung onto Jesus through death and now into life and, frankly, it’s all a little bit unbelievable. It’s so disconcerting that I think it may be a good thing we aren’t the first ones to live through this. Two thousand years... Read more

Living in Relationship

Speaking from the Pulpit

2015-10-14T19:59:37-04:00

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Unsettled

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 7:59 pm By Amy Butler

Unsettled Matthew 28:1-10 Iman Amrani had just settled in to begin her volunteer work teaching school in Bombita, on the north coast of the Dominican Republic about 150 miles from the Haitian capital, Port au Prince. Shortly after her arrival, on January 12, 2010, her whole world changed. Here’s her story: “I was just finishing my letter to Sally on the computers in the school. Exactly where I am sitting as I type right now, as it happens. I had... Read more

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