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Poetry as Theology

December 2, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

At great risk of an empty table for TheoEd today, the topic is “The Bible as Poetry.” I say that because poetry – like Jazz and classical music – has an infinitesimal audience of about 3% of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Genesis 1, Isaiah, poetry

Art of Dying – And Living

November 24, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

George Harrison of Beatles fame, wrote a song called, “Art of Dying. In it he describes death as life's greatest opportunity. Most of us don’t think of death as an opportunity, rather, as some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: George Harrison, Philippians, Whatever is true whatever is honorable

From 15 Minutes to 500 Words

November 21, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

If you read the subversivepreacher posts of Sunday sermons, this will sound familiar. It is last Sunday's sermon reduced like a flavorful sauce into a five-hundred word column for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Economy of God, Let's be real, Light

Eschatology or the Theology of Framing

November 17, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Okay, this is about eschatology. Yep, I knew that would move you to the edge of your chair! So, we are sitting between Isaiah and Jesus this morning, and it is like pulling at both ends of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: eschatology, Framing, Prophecy

A Data-Driven Theology

November 10, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

“I know that my redeemer lives.” That line in Job seems pretty clear and it forms the heart of the anthem that begins the Episcopal burial liturgy. Clearly the Lectionary Committee that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Goes, healing, Redeemer, spiritual community

All Saints’ and Then Some

November 3, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I read those dog-eared and familiar old words from the Gospel of Luke and started laughing. As if my preacher-life was passing before my eyes, thirty-nine years of varied and contradictory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: El Salvador, Jonathan Daniles, Sermon on the Mount

Wisdom v. Reaction

October 27, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I am going to zero in on something I almost never talk about. See if you can figure out what it is before I get there. When I read that poem, “Hitchhiker” a dozen contradictory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Listening, prayer and praying, wisdom verses reaction

Get Ready to Rumble…with God!

October 20, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Today, once again, the gospel reveals the uncomfortable dinner table argument between a radical first century Palestinian peasant and the well-educated upper class Westernized Christianity that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Conflict, Luke, Wrestling with God

Knowing

October 6, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Creed. Belief. Faith. Creed comes directly from the Latin word, Credo. Credo, in Latin, means literally, “I believe.” So any time we say an affirmation of faith like the Nicene or Apostle’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Belief, Creed, Emunah, faith

Hope: Work For It

September 29, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is about hope. It is about hope in hard times when hope is hard work even for people who are by nature optimistic. It begins with a man and a story we might imagine has absolutely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Go-el, Hope, Jeremiah

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Sermons, and preaching as an art, are not for dispensing content or proclaiming doctrines and dogma. Like poetry, prose, and music, they are for provoking and inspiring thought, memory, and imagination within those receiving them. Please allow your thoughts to wander as they will in response to what you hear, rather than following along word for word.

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