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Luke 21:5-19 Sermon Commentary

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Talk about the end of the world and everybody gets interested.   The disciples were, too, when Jesus predicted some apocalyptic events.   “Well,” they asked with faces a shade paler than they had been moments before, “when will all that bad stuff happen?”   In answering them, Jesus gets even more vivid in predicting great and terrible…

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Psalm 98 Sermon Commentary

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On the church’s liturgical calendar, next Sunday is the last Sunday of the church year, on which we finally get to celebrate Christ the King.  So, fittingly, the lectionary has us preaching on Psalm 98 this second to the last Sunday of the church year.  We can think of it as a prelude to that…

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2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Sermon Commentary

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We all struggle with sin and temptation and so we need to heed the challenges of Scripture when it advises us on how to lead God-glorifying lives.  It would be merely self-deceptive and tinged with no small amount of hubris for us to dispense with any parts of God’s Word on the premise that we…

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Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon Commentary

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The “heavens and … earth” that Isaiah 65 describes are clearly “new.”  After all, they’re radically unlike the ones we know here and now.  In fact, the prophet’s picture of them is so earthly and yet different from what we now experience that it almost makes us weep with longing for what Isaiah’s vision symbolizes….

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