Tag: Rejection
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Truth or Dare or Doodle
New Day Sermon Epiphany 4 Ever played truth or dare? What’s your strategy when you play? In today’s Gospel reading from Luke 4 Jesus plays a form of truth or dare…or daring to tell the truth.
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The Jesus Guide To Discipleship and Leadership
This week in our Gospel story, the writer Mark gives us two stories back to back. One is disappointment and the other elation. One is rejection and the other acceptance. One looks like failure and other looks like success. The first story is Jesus returning to his hometown of Nazareth. In my time, I’ve heard…
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Rejection
New Day Sermon Mark 6:1-13 Jesus tells us that we may be rejected when we preach the Gospel. Why do we sometimes reject that same message?
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Are We Sometimes Like the Tenants in the Vineyard?
TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 18 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). The parable in our gospel reading Matthew today is also found in Mark and Luke. The parable is known either as the Parable of the Vineyard or the Parable…