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Worthy
a Sermon for Advent 3C Text: Luke 3:7-18 (audio will come soon) Hearing of Tragedy I couldn’t go to sleep Friday. Most of the day, I avoided the details that were flowing in about the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. I picked Sophia up from preschool and took her to the park on a sunny and…
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Winnowing Forks (Eating Scripture)
Continuing our Advent and Apocalypse theme, we have more from John the Baptizer. Repent, change, because the big guy’s coming up behind me! Notice, too, the season, the demand for fairness. Just the kind of gospel for the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Eating Scripture is a short video series in which we explore the juicy and…
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Change Every Thing
a Sermon for Advent 2C Text: Luke 3:1-6 If GOD wants to change the physical world… The evangelist we call Luke compares John the Baptizer to what was written in the scroll of Isaiah, saying that his “proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” is like “the voice of one crying out…
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Every Hill Made Low (Eating Scripture)
Eating Luke 3:1-6 Back in the recesses of my mind I recall a lyric: Second verse same as the first! A little bit louder and a little bit worse! We ended Year B talking apocalyptic and we begin the new year, Year C, by…talking apocalyptic. Personally, I love it. We just aren’t that used to…
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Stand Up!
a Sermon for Advent 1C Text: Luke 21:25-36 Perpetual Crisis Each of us has come across someone who thinks the world is going to end soon. We had Harold Camping predict the world would end, twice. He was wrong. Many believe we have 19 more days thanks to one interpretation of the Mayan Calendar. And…
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The Thunder Blunder (Eating Scripture)
Eating Mark 10: 35-45 This whole arc in Mark has been about discipleship; about following Jesus where He is going. Which is Jerusalem and death. And then resurrection. After Jesus foretells His death for the third time, we have this third epic fail. And it is a doozy. Unfortunately for us, even though we recognize half…
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Deconstructing Marriage (Eating Scripture)
Eating Mark 10:2-16 Jesus has been talking about children a lot lately. He said that how you treat a child is how you treat GOD. Then he angrily scolds the disciples about any little one that gets a stumbling block from them should cause them to cut off their hands or feet. He is speaking…