Prepare

Advent 2B Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15, Mark 1:1-8  Prepare the way of the Lord! Prepare! What on earth does that mean? I feel like we should all be scrambling around making something but I’m not sure what. Every time I hear that word “prepare” associated with the church, I think about a scene from…

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Crown Him Lord Of All

Christ the King Year A, November 20 2011 Matthew 25:31-46 Hail, Sons and Daughters of the King! Let us rejoice this day, for today is Christ the King Sunday. It is the day when Christians all around the world celebrate and commemorate the one true king – the king of the universe.– Jesus the Christ,…

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Turning of the Year

Pentecost 22A, Sunday before Christ the King Each year on the Sunday before Christ the King I preach on the church year. As a child, I never realized the ever returning story that the church year tells us. Perhaps it is because Presbyterians (which I was as a child) do not put emphasis on such…

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Ray Bradbury Writing Sermons

One of the very best things about my call (job, position, vocation, whatever you wish to label it–though call is most appropriate) is that I get to read and write a lot. That’s a pretty good thing since I love both of those things. While on internship in seminary I remember calling a classmate of mine…

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Reformation Sunday

Reform: Verb: to change to a better state, improve by alteration, substitution or abolition, to cause to abandon wrong or evil way of life, to put an end to an action, to correct, to better, to amend, to repair, to restore. To form again. The year was 1415. A priest stood in a cathedral before…

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