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Colossians 2:6-15 (16-19)

Proper 12C

The sacrament of baptism isn’t just a source of almost endless controversy among Jesus Christ’s friends. It’s also sometimes vulnerable to distraction from its importance. When, for example, Reformed Christians think of infant baptism, we sometimes focus on cute babies and their outfits, as well as beaming parents and grandparents. When Christians who practice “believers’…

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Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19)

Proper 12C

Few phrases seem harder to learn and say than, “Thank you.”  After all, few responses mature more slowly than thanksgiving.  In fact, gratitude hasn’t yet fully ripened in me, even after nearly more than sixty-one years’ worth of reasons for feeling it.  I, after all, naturally assume that I deserve nearly everything I have. So…

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Colossians 2:6-15 (16-19)

Proper 12C

Sample Sermon:  One of the finer films from the 1980s is Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies. The film chronicles the story of Mac Sledge, a one-time country-western singing star whose life later dissolved into a fog of alcohol and shiftlessness. Divorced from his wife and estranged from his only daughter, Mac staggers through life until one…

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