Sermons – Page 7

Welcome One Another 8/18

America and the American Church are badly divided these days. Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative, rich/poor, urban/rural, people of color/white, etc. Our Redness and Blueness is tearing the […]

The Honda and the Bar Mitzvah 8/18

Can a church be a people of clear Christian identity and at the same time be open to truth found in other religions? Can we […]

What About the Book of Revelation? 8/19

One of the most persistent of questions to me over the years has been about the strange, terrifying, wonderful and confounding book of Revelation. It […]

What We Wear To Church 7/18

The passage for today, Colossians 3:12-17, was read at our wedding. If it applies to marriage, it first applied to life together in Christ, Christian […]

What About Mary Magdalene? 7/18

Who was Mary Magdalene and what was her relationship with Jesus? Such questions have been the subject of great fascination and debate through the years. […]

We Have This Ministry 5/18

We have this ministry. What kind of ministry? False apostles have come into Corinth preaching, in Paul’s words, a “different gospel” and “another Jesus” from […]

God Is So One and So Threesome

On this Pentecost Sunday I want to talk first about the Holy Spirit, then about the Trinity. I The work of the Spirit is […]

The Love Commands of Christ

I close this series on the commands of Christ with the most important and comprehensive: the Love Commands. I count these commands seven […]

Credo- I Believe

Today I will offer my personal credo, my “I believe.” William Sloane Coffin writes: “Credo—I believe—best translates ‘I have given my heart to.’” It […]

When Plans Change

What happens when plans change? We had life all planned. Then something happened, something that turned our life upside down, or at least […]

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