Sermons

February
15
2015

Transfiguration

Mark 9:2-9

The distance between human understanding and the heavenly reality is sacred ground!

Jesus took three of the disciples with him to the mountain top. There he was changed in their sight:...

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February
8
2015

Raise me up Lord

I must confess that I have a particular fondness for the Isaiah passage: “have you not known, have you not heard, has it not been told you from the beginning.” I used it to emphasize...

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February
1
2015

Encounters with the Dark Side

Mark 1:21-28

Jesus’s kingdom campaign begins with baptism (as does ours). With the four fishermen called to be disciples, Jesus crossed all kinds of boundaries, encountering as he went the...

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January
25
2015

Jonah and the 4 fishermen

Is it me or is it Ironic that the lection should pair a man swallowed by a fish (read the fish fishing for man) with the call of four men who were fishermen with the promise: I will make you...

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January
18
2015

Martin Luther King Day

1 Cor 12:4-13: There are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit

As Lionel Delatour drove us from his home to our hotel last Sunday night, taking care to avoid places in the city where crowds...

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