Our Needs are Holy to God: the Need to Love and Be Loved
Is there any need of children, and of us all, that comes more readily to mind than the need to love and be loved? […]
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That All Shall Be Saved
I have been wanting to preach this sermon for a long time but did not feel free of mind and heart to do so. […]
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Wintry and Summery Spirituality: A Spirituality for All Seasons of the Heart
It was Martin Marty, the famous church historian, who introduced to me the idea that there are two kinds of spirituality: summery spirituality and […]
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Thomas Our Twin
He has been called “Doubting Thomas” in Christian tradition and popular imagination. The Gospel of John calls him “Thomas the twin”. Wouldn’t you have […]
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Peace in the Storm
John 20: 19-23, Philippians 4:4-7______________________ The empty tomb was not enough to end the storm. The forces arrayed against Jesus would be arrayed against […]
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When Easter Dawns, April 2020
I’ve been thinking this week about the dawning of Easter, that first dawning of Easter in the garden, and the dawning of Easter […]
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Baptism as a Living Symbol of the Christian Life: Dying and Rising
This is the last of my Lenten sermons on Baptism as a Living Symbol of The Christian Life. I call it, Baptism: Dying and […]
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Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- New Birth and New Creation, March 2020
Baptism is a living symbol of the Christian life. Two of its most important meanings are the New Birth and the New Creation. The first […]
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Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Anointing, Holy Spirit and Calling, March 2020
At baptism I lay hands on the ones being baptized as they come up out of the water. I offer them a prayer that is […]
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Naming and Being Named, Jan.2020
This passage is about something sacred: naming and being named. That is, naming Jesus and being named by him. There is something holy about a […]
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