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Let’s get apocalyptic! Again!
The apocalyptic talk of the first week of Advent gives us a different opportunity to explore what is going on in the world around us.
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From the bottom up, again
The challenge of Christ the King Sunday is that we need to deconstruct the nature of kings and kingdoms and then tell it again.
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The uncomfortable truth about preaching the apocalypse
The first challenge of preaching a challenging gospel is that people in the Attraction Era are able to avoid being challenged.
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Beyond Loud Giving — hearing the loud critique
In a story, usually read as a matter of faithfulness, we receive a much louder critique of an impoverishing system of inequality.
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Love People
This week, we have two options for seeing Jesus’s Way of Love entering into our world, and in both, the challenge is for us to try to see it.
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Faith like manna
Deciding how to approach this week’s gospel requires a look into our process of discerning our work in the world.
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Getting into Hades (Proper 21C)
In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, we are given an illustration of what it means to serve wealth (not God).
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The one thing I most love to preach about Luke 15
The parable of the lost sheep and lost coin are great, vivid parables. But the best part is right in front of our noses.