You Stand In Awe Before A Mystery

Holy Trinity Sunday Year B This sermon is for June 3 2012. It will be preached by a member of the congregation in my absence while I attend the NC Synod Assembly Today is Trinity Sunday —a festival Sunday on which we celebrate our God—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  And it is…

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Death Valley

Pentecost Year B   Ezekiel 37:1-14  Acts 2:1-21  John 15:26-27; 16:4-15 The Valley of the Dry Bones. Valley of the Dead. Remember that children’s song? Them bones them bones them dry bones this must be the workin of the Lord. Ezekiel, the prophet who inspired that children’s song, was sent by God to the people of…

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Real Love Story

Easter 6B    John 15:9-17 We have some crazy ideas about love, don’t we? Just think of all the ways we hear it used. Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. And, as the Beatles say, all you need is love.  My…

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No Other Day

Easter Sunday It is with great joy that I proclaim to you all this day that Christ is Risen! He is Risen, Indeed! Halleluiah! After the long, dry dark season of Lent, it is so good to say that word again in worship. Halleluiah! So much beautiful celebration today as well, from breakfast with our…

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Foolishness

Lent 3B    Exodus 20:1-17    1 Corinthians 1:18-25    John 2:13-22 As I worked on my sermon for this week I remembered a somewhat heated conversation from a few years ago about this Gospel text. It started as a friendly debate amongst friends about how to preach on Jesus’ cleansing of the temple, but in the end,…

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