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Matthew 22:34-46 Sermon Commentary

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Back to the beginning. That might be a good way to understand this passage in Matthew 22.  Because in a couple of ways, these verses hark back to how Matthew began Jesus’ story in this Gospel. First there is the genealogy in Matthew 1.  In that “family tree” of Jesus Matthew inserts something into the…

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Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17 Sermon Commentary

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Psalm 90 is a classic text for funerals, for ecclesiastical observances of New Year’s Eve, and for any other time we mark the passing of time and lament our tenuous place in it.  So it is a fitting choice for this last Sunday of October just a month away from the end of Ordinary Time….

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1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Sermon Commentary

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Was there ever a time in the history of the church when some did not accuse Christians and pastors of bad motives?  Was there always the sneaking suspicion on the part of some that preachers are just slick hucksters, charlatans who use smooth talking and seductive rhetoric as a way to line their own pockets? …

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Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Sermon Commentary

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Few of us can read Deuteronomy 34 without getting at least a lump in our throat and tear in our eye.  After all, Moses has dragged the Israelites, often kicking and screaming, out of Egypt, through the wilderness and to the doorstep of Canaan.  Yet this Sunday’s Old Testament text reports that he never gets…

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