Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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We struggle with the nature of marriage and divorce, especially in light of Jesus’s invitation to unity; but unity itself is the way forward.
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Jesus engages the disciples in their distraction and confusion—naming the way they are becoming the temptation to sin.
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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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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.