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Full Text Let me just say two things about this sermon: 1) I really hate it as a sermon. I think it misses the audience, doesn’t point to Christ enough, lacks a real solid textual foundation and doesn’t have the unity of message it should have. 2) I think some of the parts of . . . → Read More: All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story
A quick note – I’ve been a slacker about writing most of this summer. It has been a summer full – full of joys and of sorrows. I intend to get back to a 3 – 4 day a week cycle God willing. Text: Mark 13:28-37 Maybe it is a psychological thing, my good daughter . . . → Read More: The turn to fall, the fig and the command to Watch!
Full Text I’ve heard it from at least two preachers who I really admire for their wisdom and their craft that “all good sermons are first preached at the preacher.” The main point is that if the preacher himself doesn’t need it or resonate with the message he is delivering it probably can’t be a . . . → Read More: Sermon – Sept 6, 2008 – “In my flesh, I will see God”
Text: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Paul makes complete sense, and then he doesn’t. In some ways it is easy to understand Peter when he said of Paul in 2 Peter 3:15-16 – “His letters contain some things that are hard to understand…” The daily readings have been taking us through 2 Corinthians, and I’ve ignored them . . . → Read More: 2nd Corinthians, Visions and Thorns
Full Text The OT text for the day was Isaiah 6:1-8 but I lengthened it to Isaiah 6:1-13. Anything less felt like taking stuff out of context. When you read the rest of that passage the first reaction is, “How did that get in there?” But without the rest you don’t get the gospel. . . . → Read More: Trinity Sunday – “Here I Am, Send me”  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Isaiah, Sermons, cross, glory, grace  Israel, mission, tough texts
Full Text There is an entryway question – who do you say that I am? Jesus asks that of the disciples. There is really only one answer that starts the journey, Peter’s answer. You are the Christ! But what does that mean? Jesus defines it in terms of A Cross Shaped . . . → Read More: A Cross Shaped Door – Mark 8:27-38
Full Text Transfiguration sunday. Exactly what we do with this picture of the Glory of God in Jesus is tough to talk about. Fundamentally, the image is too bright for our mortal eyes. What we can look at is the reactions of the disciples in contrast to the reactions of other people who . . . → Read More: Sermon – Mark 9:1-10 – Under the Gospel there is no fear
Text: Mark 10:32-45 American Idol ends up being NASCAR for the creative set. All the contestants so desperately crave fame- they need glory. I have trouble watching the early episodes because of the horribly deluded people. It makes me mad that they don’t have a parent who loves them enough to tell them . . . → Read More: Handling of Glory |
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