Sermons – Page 3

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Risky Business

September 22, 2019 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

That story from the Gospel of Luke seems very confusing. The problem is that Luke has added a bunch of independent sayings to Jesus’ original parable, and in the editing and interpretive … [Read more...]

The End

September 15, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I have a divided mind. I am going to describe it to you – metaphorically, it is a kind of Jeremiah/Jesus split. My first mind is not unlike Jeremiah’s rant we heard today, or that amazing and … [Read more...]