Sermon

  • GOD and Power

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    In his interaction with the widow, the encounter’s parallel with Elijah, and his commissioning of apostles, we see that GOD is doing something big in Jesus — and with us.

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  • Upsetting the Apple Cart

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    For this transgression roots down to the very foundation of how we understand faith. How Jesus keeps widening the circle Proper 4C  |  Luke 7:1-10 As we return to the gospel we call Luke after several weeks in John and the last two in Acts, the lectionary drops us off in a story of Jesus’s…

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  • So Let Me Get This Straight

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    These first Followers of the Way kept telling the story. They seemed to know that the story was important. That the story was what they were to share. Story, Trinity, and living our theology Trinity Sunday  |  John 16: 12-15   I recently remarked that there are two days I don’t like preaching: Christ the…

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  • To Widen the Circle

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    Pentecost, with its loud, violent wind, its flaming tongues, and its utter chaos of voices which resound into a symphony of unity in diversity, is about GOD so utterly changing the game we still aren’t sure how to play it.  The Spirit reveals and reconciles Pentecost  |  Acts 2:1-21 As Jesus ascends, two men appear and…

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  • From Brutality to Peace: Transformed By Love

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    Jesus reveals the evilest character of the world is its brutality. That true peace cannot come through fighting but through the triumph of good: the peace of Christ. GOD revealed in Acts, culture, and mothers Easter 7C |  Acts 16:16-34   This morning, we get a story of revealing, of true revelation. A story of…

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  • GOD’s Greatest Gifts

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    This is the life Jesus talks about, the life GOD reveals, the life the Holy Spirit inspires us to live. A life of a revealed GOD and the presence of Shalom. A life of hope and opportunity to serve and be served; to love and be loved. A life of true living. How Jesus reveals…

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  • New Love For a Change

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    The mistake we make is to think that GOD never changes. But GOD is always looking for a new thing, new creations, new love. And more to the fact, we are perpetually confronted with the same challenge: to produce the new thing, the new creation, the new love.

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