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Biblical Text: Mark 8:27-38 Full Text I remember looking at these texts and thinking – ugh. There are subjects which the church’s teaching may not be in complete harmony with the culture, but it heading the same general direction. You can think probably anything to do with charity. Church people tend to think charity . . . → Read More: A Cruciform Life Biblical Texts:Mark 1:8-15, Gen 22:1-18, James 1:12-18 Full Drafft of Sermon The first Sunday in Lent. All the texts are about testing or temptation. And If you are listening it is hard to read the testing of Abraham and then read James right after it. There would seem to be a contradiction, and its . . . → Read More: Temptation…the terrible feeling of aloneness Biblical Text: Mark 9:1-10 Full Text of Sermon We create fancy ways of talking about the reality of suffering – like the theology of the cross. If you think words are a bloodless way, there are less attractive ways. Like gated communities, or social darwinism or government programs that can make us feel like . . . → Read More: The Christ must include the Cross – Mountain to Mountain Biblical Text: Mark 1:40-54 Full Text of Sermon Bonhoeffer called it cheap grace. A taking of the cleaning, the grace of Christ, without also taking on discipleship or the Lordship of Christ. If you read this biblical text, you can’t help but think that cheap grace has been around for a long time. . . . → Read More: Offer what Moses Commanded, for a witness to them… Biblical Text: Mark 1:29-39 Full Draft of Sermon I slipped into something of a philosophical frame of mind this past week – I suppose I should apologize to the congregation for that. Some of it has to do with events and people. Some of it has to do with this year’s gospel – the . . . → Read More: The Christ Who Can Be Found Biblical Text of Sermon: Mark 1:21-28 Full Text of Sermon So, if you are not from a pentecostal denomination, when was the last time you heard a sermon about powers and principalities or demonology? There is probably a good reason. Denominational pastors are by and large an educated lot (often over-educated) and talking about . . . → Read More: The Powers That Be Biblical Text: Mark 1:14-20 Full Text of Sermon I think it is sometimes difficult to relate the call to discipleship we hear in the gospels to our lives. These are men (and women) who literally dropped their nets. How do you proclaim that without completely gutting it or spiritualizing it too much? The epiphany . . . → Read More: Discipleship: Dropping the nets, Identity and the Reign of God Biblical Text of Sermon: John 1:43-51 Full Text of Sermon The modern world is one full of distractions. I’m the geek that as a kid you could find reading an encyclopedia. My schoolmates were sure that “Encyclopedia Brown” was biographical. But today I find myself reading a few pages and flitting off to something . . . → Read More: The Exclusive/Inclusive Jesus Sermon Text: Mark 1:4-11 Full Text of Sermon The flu knocked me out for a considerable amount of time this week. And when you are chilling and sweating some different lines come into you head. And I’m sure I didn’t get to refine this one enough. And I feel like I am way out . . . → Read More: Fevers Sermon Text: Luke 2:21 and Church Calendar festival The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus Full Text of Sermon There were a bunch of things that were not functioning fully this past week. This post is for completeness. If there is one thing that I wish as a preacher I could ensure that people get . . . → Read More: Getting Caught Up – A Very Real Event |
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