Sermons

reflecting on the journeyFor us, it’s been, is, and will always be Christ-and-Christ-crucified! All I can say is, “Who woulda thought!” A few weeks ago, goodFriday morning, I was taking a few minutes perusing my Facebook page. A diversion, distraction,…
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Acts 9. 36-43It’s not easter that inspires us to love; it’s goodFriday! It was about this time, thirty-three years ago, that my mom was diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s disease. She was fifty-eight. She hadn’t been herself, for a while. But…
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Acts 9. 1-6 [7-20]Christ suffered for us so that we, too, might suffer for others! Just a quick calculation. Without going into too much detail. I figure I’ve read this passage from Acts a dozen times over my time as…
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Acts 5. 27-35The church is called to carry crosses! “At last, the prince came to a chamber of gold, where he saw upon a bed the fairest sight one ever beheld—a princess of about seventeen years who looked as if…
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John 19. 31-42Life ends – and life begins – on the cross! The preacher described it as awesome! Overwhelming! Grander and more glorious – actually, he said glorious-er – than anything we could, possibly, imagine! Using the vision of god’s…
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the passion according to luke (22:14–23:56)The only way we get closer to god is when god comes closer to us! Each Sunday morning, every time a preacher steps into a pulpit or behind an altar, he or she has one…
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Isaiah 43.16-21God’s love creates us; god’s love inspires us; god’s love moves us! The way it – usually – works is that I read the passage for the morning. In this case, Isaiah, chapter forty-three, verses sixteen to twenty-one. And…
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Joshua 5. 9-12We are a people not of a destination, but of the way!! It’s called a canon-within-a-canon. Canon not in the sense of an artillery piece. But canon as in a collection of sacred books. That’s what we called…
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reflecting on the journeyChurch is created by, sustained with, and born again in … the gospel! It’s been a little more than three years. Since we sold our building. Truth be told, we expected to be farther by now. But…
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