Thoughts On This Rapture Thing

I’ve been reading a lot about this rapture thing and the end of the world that is supposed to be here on Saturday and I have a few thoughts about it. First, I do have to admire the tenacity of the people who are preaching about this and, at least it seems so far, they…

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The Label Maker

This week I purchased a label maker. It’s pretty fancy, too!  I remember the old fashioned label makers of my youth with plastic tape and a little wheel you spun around to the right letter and then you’d squeeze to make the white imprint of the letter on the tape. Not so with this! There’s…

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We Need Not Make Our Home Inside Fear

sermon for Easter 4A     Psalm 23    John 10:1-10 Imagine the scene given to us in our psalm for today. Here is a nice, pretty pastoral picture. Fields of fresh green grass, cool stream of gentle water, happy little sheep grazing, drinking and napping in this picturesque landscape. A shepherd standing by, watching over the little…

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Eyes Wide Open

This sermon owes a debt of gratitude for parts of its structure to this writing here at day1.org   Our world has been a very interesting and eventful place as of late. I heard one person say: a young girl married her prince and became a princess and the bad guy was destroyed….sounds like a Disney…

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Those Crazy Lectionary People!

As I contemplate the upcoming week’s sermon, I sometimes think to myself: ‘What were those crazy lectionary people thinking when they put this together???’  This week, in my opinion, is a prime example. Well, not THIS specific week, but this week every year. Easter 3. The weeks during the Great 50 Days of Easter have a…

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