God is always reaching out to all of us through the stories of people who share our common humanity, but whose lives are so very different from our own.
Sermon: Sunday, January 31, 2016: Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
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Sermon: Sunday, April 26, 2015: Fourth Sunday of Easter
Good Shepherd Sunday is not some sweet, sentimental song to make us feel safe and secure. It is the assurance that God sets a table for us, even in the presence of our enemies, and that we live this life in the valley of the shadow of death, but that we do not walk through the valley alone. It is a reminder that the power of God is not the power of this world, which seizes and hoards, but the power of love, which willingly sacrifices.
Sermon: Sunday, February 1, 2015: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Texts: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 + Psalm 111 + 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 + Mark 1:21-28 Paul writes “knowledge puffs up, but love builds up” (1 Cor. 8:1) and Jesus enters the synagogue where he teaches “as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Mark 1:22) Read side-by-side, these two passages give me a bit of pause … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, February 1, 2015: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
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