Just like we get tired of bad news from the news media, I’m sure you are like me and get tired of bad news from the Sunday lectionary readings. We’ve been getting a lot of it lately. The punch … [Read more...]
Forget about worship…worry about where your treasure is instead
We should feel alarmed and threatened. Isaiah is telling us, with the voice of God on his lips no less, that formal, public worship should be eliminated. Luke is telling us, on the voice of … [Read more...]
Pushing the pause button – and alt/delete
As most of you know, I had a traumatic event in May. The surgery I had to fix my back was followed in three days by an emergency surgery to remove a blood clot on my spine. Like so many people … [Read more...]
Hospitality and Prayer
However many people there are listening to this sermon is how many opinions there are about prayer -- and what it is or is not. I do not know. I know nothing about prayer. I pray but I don’t … [Read more...]
Defense and offense, yin and yang, blood and oxygen…
This is a subversivepreacher archive (6 Pentecost 2011) Text only this week. Let’s have a show of hands between Martha’s and Mary’s. Martha’s are the ones who, as Jesus says, dither about and are … [Read more...]
Dig deeper…
A video version of this sermon follows the written text This is a real sermon this week. By that, I mean standing back and letting the texts speak for themselves without a lot of … [Read more...]
“The end is different than the beginning…”
View a video version of this sermon by scrolling down below the sermon text I have to warn you, this is one of those strange, abstract highly metaphoric sermons. You will either get it or you … [Read more...]
Little prophets and other matters
Scroll down for video version Don’t you just love euphemisms? Check out that first line of Luke’s Gospel: ”When the days drew near for him to be received up...” By “received up” he must have … [Read more...]
True Story
A video version follows the text below We just heard my favorite Gospel story. To my way of thinking about it it is the most wonderful of many, many wonderful stories. So I am not going to preach … [Read more...]
True Story
A video version follows the text I am going to preach on a story we didn’t even read out loud today. But that’s okay, because I think you know that story and it is rooted in the one we did … [Read more...]
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