Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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The season we often use to anticipate Christmas can be an invitation to both plan and dream, not only what’s possible, but what God will make possible.
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In the holiday season, we hear Jesus’s invite us to listen and hear in the midst of chaos—a call, not to ending it, but being in the center of it.
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Trying to make Christ into a king, we misunderstand the nature of power and its purpose. Especially our foolish attempts to wield it for good. The problem is powerProper 29CLuke 23:33-43 Here we are, at the end of the church year; the Last Sunday After Pentecost. Next week will be the first Sunday in Advent,…
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The gospel challenges us to show up when it’s hard, not pretend false neutrality absolves us of any responsibility for the world around us.
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When Jesus is confronted in Jerusalem by the Sadducees, they ask a convoluted question about the afterlife. So Jesus changes the conversation.
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The parable of the righteous man is a set-up. And we can’t help falling for it. Because we don’t know what to do with his being wrong.