September 2021

Sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 26, 2021

Texts: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50 One day a preacher in Tennessee decided to make a memorable point with his congregation about hell. He borrowed a skeleton from the local dentist and stood it beside the pulpit. Then he began to describe the shadowy realm of all that is unholy. The preacher described […]

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Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 5, 2021

Texts: Isaiah 35:4-7a; James 2:1-10[11-13] 14-17, Mark 7:24-37 It’s all about miracles today. Like God giving the Edomites their due recompense for oppressing the Israelites, and God’s leading of Israel out of captivity in Babylon. As Isaiah proclaims, there’s nothing quite like the power of God for making things happen. Blind people see, deaf people hear,

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Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost — August 29, 2021

Texts: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15. 21-23 If you’ve ever travelled on the London Underground you’ve heard the safety announcement to “mind the gap.” It refers to the gap caused by curving station platforms and straight train cars, and variations in the levels of train cars and platforms. It’s a common problem. ​Many

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