This past week we celebrated the 5th anniversary of our church. Many folks who were here at the beginning, and now have moved elsewhere, came back for our reunion. That’s an important bit of information that helps make sense of the end of the sermon.
Oh. And I changed the name of the guy at the [...]
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I imagine that I’m a latecomer to this bit of news, but I thought I’d share it here for those who are like me—with their head in the sand most of the time.
Last week during a Q & A time with presidential candidate John Kerry at the University of Florida, a student was violently forced [...]
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Title: Gifts and possesions
Date: Sept 9, 2007
Texts: Jeremiah 18:1-11; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33.
What does it mean to receive a gift? Or, more to the point, what does it mean to receive your very life as a gift?
Last night many of us got together for a baby shower to anticipate and celebrate this [...]
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At times, preparing a sermon comes easy. But most of the time the sermon comes only through much wrestling with the word. Leading up to a Sunday when I’m assigned to preach, it’s not unusual for my prayers to consist of complete frustration with the lectionary Scriptures. And that’s exactly what this week is like. [...]
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Title: Transgressive love
Date: Sept 2, 2007
Texts: Jer. 2:4-13; Ps. 81:1, 10-16; Heb. 13:1-8, 15-16; Lk. 14:1, 7-14
A few years ago I went to a conference in Philadelphia, where the most significant theologians and biblical scholars of the English speaking world present their research and talk and hang out. Men and women bustle around from lecture [...]
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