Texts: Exodus 20:1-17  ;  Psalm 19  ;  1 Corinthians 1:18-25  ;  John 2:13-22 How many of you have seen the movie Sicko? It’s the documentary by Michael Moore that came out in 2007, and there’s a scene from that movie that I’m thinking of where a man named Rick tells the story of losing the … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, March 15, 2009: Third Sunday in Lent →

Texts: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16  ;  Psalm 22:23-31  ;  Romans 4:13-25  ;  Mark 8:31-38   On the fourth floor of a fairly nondescript brick building at the corner of Van Buren and Peoria, just north of the Eisenhower and just west of the Kennedy, you will find the offices of the Interfaith Youth Core. They are … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, March 8, 2009: Second Sunday in Lent →

Text: Mark 1:9-15   It is the first Sunday in Lent and there are certain tropes, certain stock phrases, that are so much a part of this season that they’re almost unavoidable. We have to say something about this “Lenten journey,” maybe in conjunction with the phrase “throughout these forty days.” There’s probably going to … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, March 1, 2009: First Sunday in Lent →