Culture changes religion. Truly, any religion you want to pick has been changed by the culture to which it is brought. Religion changes culture too, but culture and history do surgery on … [Read more...]
Under our noses
Text for Preaching: Matthew 17:1-9, "The Transfiguration" I know people forever changed by battle, both on the ground splattered by blood, and in the air singed by fire while beholding a face … [Read more...]
Cause & Effect, Not Crime & Punishment
I don’t really know where to go with Isaiah and Matthew today. They are so anti-Christian, or at least “anti” Puritan-Capitalist-Civil Religion brand of Christianity that passes for a Gospel … [Read more...]
Encoded Language
TEXTS FOR SERMON: Malachi 3:1-4 Luke 2:22-40 “Pondering These Things” by Gay Hadley "Neighbors said it first. Surely this child belongs to someone else. Mary, too, when she held … [Read more...]
The Fish
TEXTS For SERMON: Isaiah 9:2-4; "The Fish" by Mary Oliver; Matthew 4:12-23 There are so many times a poem is better than a story and this morning, I would prefer to riff on Mary Oliver’s fish … [Read more...]
More water stories
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, which means it must be on my mind, I have been preaching for forty years, I can’t believe it. I realize that to some of you, that’s nothing – heck, Sabins got … [Read more...]
A time to fight and a time to hold differences between us
Jeremiah, the psalm, and the Gospel point to a conflict in the Bible. It is one we have seen graphically before while it is more implicit than explicit in today’s readings. So, if you don’t see … [Read more...]
Primeval Atom
You will have to determine if this sermon is about the Big Bang or angels in my head. From time to time someone will ask me why I always dig around and poke things when it comes to … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. On one level Christmas has been hidden in the Miller house this year. That is because we are moving and we expected to be in our new home before Christmas. So we packed … [Read more...]
A Dirty Sermon – as in earthen
This sermon is kind of dirty. I don’t mean obscene, I mean muddy – as in, earthen. You will be happy to know it is kind of short too’ I am looking forward to Christmas Eve this year, when I … [Read more...]
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