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1 Kings 17:8-24
Proper 5C
We live a world that death and violence seem to have in their iron-like stranglehold. All too often they appear to have both the dominant and final word in our world. In the midst of this culture of violence and death, however, God is in the business of constantly giving life. Death stubbornly looms over…
1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29), 30-39
Proper 4C
It seems that some 21st century North Americans approach religion the way hungry people graze at a buffet. A little bit of this. A smidgeon of that. A little bit of Christianity. A dollop of Buddhism. A sprinkling of Hinduism. Since God is the God of all truth, people can learn some things from a…
1 Kings 8: (1-6, 10-11), 22-30, 41-43
Proper 16B
The last few verses of this lection strike me as much as anything. So much of the Old Testament is all-Israel all-the-time. There is warfare and defeat of other nations, dark warnings about inter-marriage with Canaanites, the threat of foreign religious practices wheedling their way into the faith of Israel. It’s easy at times to…
1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14
Proper 15B
Comments and Observations: My wife tells me I think too much about The Godfather, and if you have been paying weekly attention to these sermon commentaries in the Summer of 2015 here, then you know this is indeed the second time in as many weeks that I have mentioned Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark 1974 film. …
The Whisper of God
Preached at Madison Square Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI on May 20, 2007. Used with permission of the author.
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