Scripture
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Destroying Dogma
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1 min read
My sermon for Epiphany 5A is up here. The topic is Jesus’s preaching on freedom, law, and Kingdom-life. It followed the previous week’s discussion of the Beatitudes, called “Blessed“. This week continues the Sermon on the Mount and will be posted next week. Look for a teaser soon.
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Blessed (Beatitudes)
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6 min read
Epiphany 4A | Matthew 5:1-12 [Note: the original sermon was preached from sparse notes. What follows is a fleshing out of those notes as best as I can.] GOD of Hope and Wonder, you gave us Jesus as Messiah and Lord. Open our hearts to love as he loves, our imaginations to dream as he…
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Piety and generosity
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1 min read
I have just posted a couple of sermons from the last month on my sermon page. The first is on piety and proximity in Jesus’s actions with the “sinners” called “Risking Cooties“. The second is on the mustard seed and slave parable called “Gotta Have Faith“.
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Looking for the Law
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2 min read
I have posted yesterday’s sermon on my sermon blog here. This was a big day for me. It was the first full-on no-notes sermon at the principle worship service. And I didn’t mess up (which is pretty big, too)! What I posted on the sermon page is a recreation from my notes, not a transcription. …
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The Fool
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3 min read
“You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you.” This week’s gospel in the RCL is Luke 12:13-21. It deals with Jesus preaching to this crowd of thousands and he is describing how radical the Kingdom of GOD looks compared with the world we live in. It is a pretty profound message…
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Being Martha
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5 min read
What does it mean that we are so eager to slip on the persona of Martha? Why are we so eager to come to her defense?