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Philemon 1:1-21 2025

Proper 18C

Jesus’ friends sometimes define ourselves by our relationships to other people. We naturally think of ourselves primarily as parents, children, spouses, friends, employers, employees or students. But this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson at least tacitly invites preachers to help our hearers to consider other relationships by which we ought to define ourselves. The Paul who writes…

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Philemon 1:1-21

Proper 18C

A colleague recently told me that he sometimes feels like members of his church think of him as a UPS package that’s all wrapped up and labelled. Ironically, however, those members don’t agree on what his label says. My colleague says they variously think of him as too liberal or conservative, lenient or intolerant, modern…

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Philemon 1:1-21

Proper 18C

What a gift this little letter from Paul is to the church! Though all of Paul’s letters in the New Testament are about practical matters of life and faith, and though all of his guidance, advice, teachings and admonitions are rooted in a deeply Christological theology, none of the other letters quite show Paul’s personal…

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Philemon 1:1-21

Proper 18C

Garry Wills’s book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, is a fascinating study of one of the world’s more famous speeches. Wills claims that in the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln, in the span of a scant 272 words which took him all of three minutes to deliver, forever altered our understanding of the…

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Put That on Master Charge

2009-05-08T00:00:00

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