I don’t usually add these occasional sermons. They usually are so specific to the event that I don’t think there is much that someone could get out of them without that background. This is one I think a little differently about. I really liked this sermon (if I do say so myself). . . . → Read More: Benedict-Wilson Wedding Sermon
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Full Text I would be real interested to know what people actually heard from this sermon. I think it had a high emotional register, but I’m not sure if I used that emotion to the proper end. The core concern that I think the text addressed is God’s truth. And God’s truth can be real ugly. . . . → Read More: Truth in the midst of Ugly Full Text If I’m looking at this sermon critically – it is too much lecture and not enough preaching. Here is what I mean by that: a lecture conveys information while preaching reaches beyond that. The core of the text (1 Pet 3:13-22) as I read it was a summary of Peter’s argument up to this point, . . . → Read More: Hope and Holiness Full Text I was asked after church in Bible study if I like preaching on Easter Sunday the best. My answer was not as full a yes as might be expected. It is definitely up there, if just for the crowd size. This is not meant as a theological statement – the effectiveness of . . . → Read More: Easter Sunday – A Chance to Have Faith 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… Full Text A few remarks by people in bible class afterward were interesting feedback. This seem seemed to strike harder than I would have expected. Not that the notes that struck were not there, just that I would have expected a slightly different reaction. Protestantism and Lutheranism in particular are very polar – either this . . . → Read More: Do you have a church? Full Text Text: Luke 21:5-28 Talking about end times or eschatology always inspires lots of speculation. But that is exactly what Jesus says don’t do. The false prophets claim “I am he” or “the time is near”. Pop Christianity waits for a rapture, which is flatly against Jesus’ teaching. The troubles that come on . . . → Read More: Its the end of the World as we know it…  Comments are closed  Luke  Christian freedom, comfort, dispensationalism, end times, eschatology, Luke, sermon 
Full Text of Sermon Text: Luke 12:49-53 One of the VBS kids said something profound in the way only children can. The second day’s bible point was: God’s Word is Comforting. In quizzing the kids the next day what that main point was, one stood up, emphatically waving his hand in the air saying I know, . . . → Read More: God’s Word is ______ – the VBS Litergy |
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