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Glory and Tents

from 2007

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The Last in Line

Meditation on Matthew 20 by Amy Plantinga Pauw at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary on December 1, 2006. Used by permission of the author.

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Lullaby for the Dying

2006-12-20

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Salvation’s Hospitality

Preached 3/27/2006  

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Soar We Now

Preached 4/10/2006  

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Matthew 25:31-46

New Years Day B

Sample Sermons Note: This text was also a Year A “Reign of Christ” lection about six weeks ago.  So for this New Years’s Day service I am posting a full sample sermon of mine, a few portions of which I utilized some weeks back and so regular readers on the CEP site may have a…

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Matthew 6:24-34

Epiphany 8A

Comments and Observations Unexpected twists arrest our attention. How often haven’t we seen a movie advertised as worth seeing because, according to the promotional ad, “You won’t believe how it ends!” or “The conclusion will leave you breathless!” Some years ago the popular movie The Sixth Sense shocked viewers around the world with an ending…

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Matthew 2:1-12

Epiphany C

Strange, isn’t it?  For ever-so-long now the Church has often been seen by those outside of the Church—and not infrequently by even a good many folks inside the Church—as being a kind of exclusive club.  Too often it all comes down to who’s in, who’s out.  In history popes and other religious leaders have used…

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