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Mark 4:26-34 Sermon Commentary

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Like the message they convey, the two parables in this part of Mark 4 are mighty small.  This is no Parable of the Prodigal Son that takes up the better part of a whole chapter.  Jesus manages to convey something about the smallness of the kingdom via two stories that are themselves pretty tiny.  And…

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Psalm 20 Sermon Commentary

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In these politically charged times, it is interesting (or ironic, or fortuitous, or providential) that the Lectionary would give us two Royal Psalms in a row.  Last week in Psalm 138 we had a Psalm that spoke truth to power.  This week in Psalm 20 we have a Psalm that prays for the one in…

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2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17 Sermon Commentary

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When we were younger (so much younger than today . . .), we perhaps naively thought that so long as we were sincere and well-intentioned then, even if we made mistakes (as we all do), we could avoid creating any enemies, avoid having anyone who so disliked us as to avoid us in public even…

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1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 Sermon Commentary

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There’s almost always more going on than meets the eye.  Whether it’s at a cosmic or molecular level, we just can’t always see what’s really going on.  So, for example, the 1973 Watergate break-in initially looked like little more than a clumsy effort at burglary.  It turned, however, out to be part of President Nixon…

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