Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Being There
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9 min read
This morning’s lectionary is full of conflict and confusion, but Paul and Jesus are both compelling us to see that we’re the ones creating it.
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Facing Foxes
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10 min read
Jesus invites us into a new world of mercy based in nonviolent relationships and we’d rather kill it.
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Hunger
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8 min read
In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…
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About the Food
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7 min read
We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.
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A Love Superpower
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9 min read
The Transfiguration is the showstopper. But what happens when Jesus comes down the mountain reminds us what Jesus is really doing.
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back to the future
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8 min read
In the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6), Jesus tells us what we hoped we’d never hear: our world is upside down and we’re being called to flip it over.