Tag: Loss
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Hope in the Face of Death
I know we often lose, and that the death or destruction of another is infinitely more real and unbearable than one’s own. I think I know how many times one has to start again, and how often one feels that one cannot start again. And yet, on pain of death, one can never remain where…
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Out of the Tombs
New Day Sermon Easter Sunday Easter is about joy. Pure undiluted joy. But do we always know how to live in joy? How does the Resurrection gift you joy today?
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The Terrible Gift of Free Will
The problem of pain, of war and the horror of war, of poverty and disease is always confronting us. But a God who allows no pain, no grief, also allows no choice. There is little unfairness in a colony of ants, but there is also little freedom. We human beings have been given the terrible…
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Concerning a Dodge Caravan … and Hope
Email Devotion For The Week Of Easter 3 Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. (Romans 12:12, NRSV) We were the only two people in the building who were crying … literally … the only two of the dozens of people surrounding us at the local CarMax showroom. We were signing over the…
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Wheat Arising Green
Traditional Sermon Lent 5 The grain of wheat falling to the earth and dying, bears fruit in our agricultural world. What are the grains of of our lives that in dying bear fruit of grace and blessing for us? Oft times a hymn is a sermon in and of itself, with the hymn text writer…
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Dark Nights in a Season of Light
EMAIL DEVOTIONAL week of AdVENT 2 Most of us try to avoid death at every turn. We don’t talk about it … when we are in the presence of the dead we often keep our distance … at times we even act as if we will never die, even though we know better. During the…
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All Saints’ Sunday: The Stakes Are Higher
New Day Sermon All Saints’ Sunday All Saints’ is marked with holes and hurts and also with a tremendous promise…