Category: Sermons
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Seeing the Glory of God
New Day Sermon LENT 5 Can we see the glory of God through the person of Lazarus, fresh from the tomb with scraps of his burial cloths clinging to his arms? Can we see the miracle worker beyond the miracle itself?
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Are you blind?
New Day Sermon Lent 4 The sermon is a combination of the lesson from John with a drama woven throughout. Do you see yourself in any of the characters? We often complain of others not seeing their bad behavior, but many times we are blinded to our own.
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Random Conversations
New Day Sermon Lent 3 Random conversations. We all have them. We often have them with perfect strangers. How can these random conversations be moments of holiness?
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When Jesus Met Sally
Lent 3 Traditional Sermon Grace, peace, and love to you all from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who desires nothing more than to be in relationship with you all and for all of you to be in relationship with each other. Amen Relationships are the materials from which we construct our world. Relationships are…
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God so loved the world?
Lent 2 New Day Sermon Belief, faith, and the questions that exist along the way.
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Temptation, Lies and Godstuff
A couple of years ago I got to the Lenten season and I decided that I would do something a little bit different. I was going to give something up for Lent. I don’t normally give up something up for Lent. It just has not been part of my piety growing up, but that year…
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Face Any Temptations Lately?
Lent 1 NEW DAY SERMON The season of Lent always opens with the story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness from either Matthew, Mark or Luke. The question for us as we engage this story is whether God is concerned about our petty temptations like chocolate or expensive baubles or fast cars … or whether…
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Be the Light
TRADITIONAL SERMON Transfiguration Sunday Two weekends ago while on retreat with our high school youth at camp Nawakwa, I had the chance to lead a hike to Upper Temple at 10:00 on Saturday night. In my years of retreat leadership at Nawakwa, I’ve been to Upper Temple dozens of times – most of them at…
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Shiny Jesus
New Day Sermon Transfiguration Sunday The Transfiguration is a preview into God’s revelation and the promise of resurrection, but it also tells us something about who we are right now.
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Holiness and Perfection?
TRADITIONAL SERMON EPIPHANY 7 OK, let’s take a vote. I regularly ask my Confirmation class to vote on questions of faith, and sometimes even my Wednesday Morning Bible Study class. No now it is your turn. Answer me this … do you think it is more difficult to be perfect … or be holy.…
