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Sermons (Page 48)

The Humor of Jesus

Luke 13:31-35
The humor of Jesus is subtle, nearly imperceptible at first glance. The gospels are not funny in the traditional sense. It’s not slapstick comedy; there are no pratfalls […]. But Jesus knew humor disarms and unites.

Ash Wednesday 2016

Matthew 6:1-6,16-21
We begin this Lenten journey tonight, this Ash Wednesday, I’m always brought back to the reminder of what Lent is about and how it came about. A reminder that in the early church, folks prepared for Baptism for three years….

Radical Hospitality

Luke 9:28-36, [37-43a]
Today, we celebrate the end of a season, a liturgical season called Epiphany [. . .]. We conclude this season of Epiphany with this story often referred to as the Transfiguration. [. . .] How can we as the body of Christ be transfigured?

The Three-Letter Word

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“There is a word — a very short word — that I think is being eliminated from our conversation. It’s being eliminated from our civil discourse. It’s a word that’s being eliminated even from the way we think, engage, and interact with our world. It’s a three-letter word…”

Being Found

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
This summer, Maxwell returned home with a 10-pound poodle that we were asked to foster… “No, we won’t be adopting her”… but we had not calculated on the fact that she would shortly adopt us…