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Genesis 12:1-9

Proper 5A

Go! Have you ever been struck by the fact that this is God’s very first word to Abram?  Go.  Leave.  Hit the road.  Have you ever been struck by how unattractive this must have sounded to Abram at his advanced age?  Why would he want to go anywhere?  He had his home.  He had established…

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Genesis 12:1-4a

Lent 2A

 “Go!” That is God’s first word to Abram.  And it sets up what will become a curious dynamic for the people of God forever after.  The people of God are a traveling people.  Wherever “home” might be for us, it is as often as not something still up ahead of us rather than something we…

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Genesis 12:1-4a

Lent 2A

The early chapters of Genesis show us the steady downhill slide of humanity beginning with the Fall in Eden, with some terrifying secondary falls along the way—Cain and Abel, the increasing depravity of humans resulting in the massive cleansing of the Flood, the building of Babel resulting in the scattering and confusion of the nations….

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Genesis 12:1-4a

Lent 2A

The Old Testament lesson the Lectionary appoints for this Sunday reminds us that the God whom we worship in Jesus Christ is a God who calls.  Yet it also reminds us that God always calls for a purpose.  So we listen, not just for God’s call, but also for what purpose God calls us. At…

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Stepping Out in Faith Into an Unknown Future

Calvin College chapel service, spring 2006

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When Faith Falters

from 2007

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