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Garden Party!

February 26, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

German: Utopien 04 A link to the video format of this sermon appears at the end of the text  (Just a quick reminder: We are all preachers this Lent. Our Lenten discipline is to become a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Eden, Myth, Preaching

Something about the lenses we wear

May 29, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I am not sure I could call this a sermon, but I’ll let you be the judge of that. I did wait until I was off of pain meds to work on it. There is always a riptide of temptation to allow the sermon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: kingdom on earth, Lens, Preaching

Preaching, Death, Trust

May 15, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

A video version follows the text Can I just say that preaching isn’t as easy as it looks. I know it is not really a job for a grown man or woman, but it’s all I know. And once in awhile I just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, Preaching, trust

When a sermon is not a sermon and God is in between the lines

May 5, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This column originally appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, as part of a weekly column, "Denim Spirit." But before that, it was a sermon (see post for 4/30/17). This is what a sermon looks like, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, Preaching, writing

On Preaching

January 14, 2016 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

Once, when going through a prolonged depression, I would mutter, “preaching is no job for a grown man (or woman).” Even when not depressed, I have at times quietly disparaged the profession I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Holiness, Pastoral Relationship, Preaching, Sacred

CHANGE

September 23, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

CHANGE For over a thousand years the Church has been a preservationist institution seeking to encase previous elements of its past - including architecture, worship, music, and doctrines - in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, New, Preaching

SHEPHERDNESS

July 17, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Link to Lectionary Texts for Proper 11B: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp11_RCL.html If you are using the Jeremiah tract with Mark, which I am, then the unifier is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prep for Sermons Tagged With: leadership and management, Preaching, Proper 11B, Shepherds

FOUR

March 19, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

No gratuitous intimacy, please. It is highly debatable that there is ever a time for significant personal self-disclosure from the pulpit but if there is then no one should be left with any doubt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Preacher as Gunslinger Tagged With: Intimacy in Preaching, Preaching, Public Intimacy, public self-disclosure

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PICTURES WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: Sent in by satisfied readers!       Cairn, Poems & Essays Nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize by the publisher, Cairn is … ...Read more

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