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John 15:9-17

Easter 6B

Every week the sermon proclaims the Gospel.  Yes, there is always a small-t preaching text (Psalm 23, John 15) on which the sermon is based.  That’s the text projected onto the screen or printed in the church bulletin.  But that text is always also in service of getting at the big-T Text that just is…

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Acts 10:44-48

Easter 6B

May Christians ever give up hope for the salvation of any living person?  Can we, in other words, simply abandon anyone to Satan’s captivity?  What about those who have already received God’s grace with their faith?  May God’s adopted sons and daughters ever deliberately or even unconsciously abandon these fellow Christians? Certainly some early Christians…

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1 John 5:1-6

Easter 6B

A friend of mine who teaches preaching says that whether we can see it with our physical eyes or not, a whole lot of people come to church each week spiritually bent over at the waist.  They come with so many burdens on their shoulders.  They are weighed down by them.  What burdens?  A spouse…

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Symposium 2018: The Ascension

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Symposium 2018: Three Not So Simple Questions

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Symposium 2018: Jesus Appears to Thomas

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Symposium 2018: Dusty Faith

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John 15:1-8

Easter 5B

When I was a pastor, I felt a sense of personal hurt whenever members transferred to other congregations, particularly when such transfers had nothing to do with a job relocation or a geographic move, as is sometimes the case.  It was made worse by the fact that lots of such people never say good-bye, never…

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Acts 8:26-40

Easter 5B

If the Holy Spirit is a bit like a stone dropped into the middle of a pond, then Acts 8:26-40’s story is like one of the concentric rings that ripples out from it and across God’s world.  But it’s only one of the first of a series of rings that continues to spread to this…

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1 John 4:7-21

Easter 5B

If you preached on the Lectionary selection from 1 John 3 last week—and if you read the sermon commentary for that text that I posted here on the CEP website—then you will know a hard truth as we face this text: we probably both shot our wad on “love” last Sunday!  So much of this…

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