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Draft 1.0 There are some very simple statements that are rarely expressed that are the seed bed of faith. You get close to them if you look at the world and just say what you see. Do you see millions of atoms randomly moving around? Do you see a tragic beauty? Maybe just . . . → Read More: The Milk of Faith I’m a long time basketball fan, although I usually like the NCAA better than the NBA. But somewhere close is an image of LeBron James after the game 6 loss. The Miami Heat were put together with one idea in mind – glory. They were built to win. Yet they lost. . . . → Read More: Cross and Glory First, I’ve been a slacker at this site. Confession is good for you. Partly because I just didn’t like what I was writing. Too polemical and not devotional enough. Too intellectual and missing some of the emotional range. We never had that level of traffic here, but I also really didn’t . . . → Read More: Summer Theological Project I can’t really recommend you read this. It has got to be the most cringe inducing thing I’ve read in a long time. Status obsessed, shallow, vain, conceited, silly…and still heartbreaking. But given all of that, it is a remarkable roadmap for how to kill your Faith or blaspheme the Holy Spirit. It is . . . → Read More: Its like watching a trainwreck, the horror doesn’t stop… Full Text I find it ironic that in an age full of irony with a people tuned to understanding layers of meaning taking place Palm Sunday in some quarters is being transformed into Passion Sunday. Well not at St. Mark in West Henrietta. Since we have been reading from St. John’s Gospel, I took the . . . → Read More: The King Comes Anyway… Full Text We had a double baptism this week. Yes, it breaks a liturgical rule about lent, but the text was perfect – living water, John 4:5-26. The entire segment of John from Nicodemus through the Samaritan Woman and the well with a picture of actual baptisms(!) in between is full of baptismal images and . . . → Read More: This Well is Deep… Text: John 1:1-14, Heb 1:1-5 Elizabeth Edwards died yesterday. From what I know she died of breast cancer and left two younger children in her philandering husband’s care. She lived her first 50 years in private and a very public final 11. And those last 11 include a book called Saving Graces and final good-bye that included the . . . → Read More: The Content of Hope or More on MTD (Moralistic Therapeutic Deism) Text: 1 Tim 2:1-4, Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation I hope you didn’t mind the reading from Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation. It’s a little longer than normal and not biblical, but if you have never read it, it is a short classic and an amazing document of vision.
Full Text Luke 14:1 – 17:10 in my reading is one long extended teaching on being a disciple. The text for this sermon is the summary or conclusion of that section. I drew that boundary because in Luke 17:11 Jesus is no longer ping-ponging back and forth between disciples and Pharisees, but he . . . → Read More: The Disciple’s Life of Repentance  Comments are closed  cross, grace, Luke, Repentance, Sermons  discipleship, freedom of the gospel, gospel, grace, law, Luke, Repentance, sin |
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