Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.
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The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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Christian tradition has a troubled past with purity, making it another thing to adhere to rather than a matter of love and grace.
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Thousands of people abandon Jesus before the end of John 6. Because they are far more interested in him than in where he is going.
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Most Americans are steeped in a tradition of binary thinking that does make decision making easier, but also a lot less honest.
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As followers of Jesus, we are comfortable with the idea of the Good News as work. Less so with what that means for our lives.