Sermons

Luke 12. 23-40The Word of God isn’t paper and ink, but flesh and it’s blood! You’ve heard me mention it, now and again, over the past few years. More tongue-in-cheek, than anything. More a joke, than something serious. How we…
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(given @ StNicholasEpiscopalChurch, midland) Hosea 11. 1-11God has always been and will always be a god who loves! So, there I was, eating lunch on a Monday afternoon, as usual, with friends. The lone Lutheran among a cadre of Episcopalians….
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Luke 11. 1-13Prayer – like everything else – revolves around two things: god’s grace and jesus christ! “[Jesus] was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to…
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coreValue #2: Jesus ChristJesus Christ is grace made real! According to the dictionary, coreValues are the fundamental beliefs – the bottom lines – for a person or a people. They’re the guiding principles that make us who, that make us…
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Luke 10. 25-37We inherit eternal life not by loving god or by loving others,but by being loved by god and by others! “Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit…
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Luke 10. 1-11, 16-20The kingdom of god isn’t a there-and-then king of thing;it’s a here-and-now one! A woman dies and goes to heaven where she finds herself third in line at the pearly gates. God’s just instituted a stricter screening…
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the Post-Communion Prayer, Luther’s German MassFaith is being loved by god and, then, loving … just like god! I think it’s been over a decade, now, that we’ve been taking the good doctor’s advice to heart. Luther recommended that pastors…
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Luke 8. 26-39Forgiveness, like everything else, is a gift from god. The way it works – or rather, the way it’s supposed to work, at least according to popular opinion – is pretty straightforward and pretty simple. When you do…
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topical: congregation valuesThe church exists for one thing … grace! “A journey of a thousand miles,” so the proverb says, “begins with a single step.” Or more accurately, it begins with the ground beneath our feet. Right here and right…
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John 14. 8-17, 25-27The Spirit comes, not in the extraordinary,but in the unremarkable. The first song we sang, this morning, about says it all! “God of tempest, God of whirlwind, as on Pentecost descent!” And it only went on from…
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