Tag: faith
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politics, cynicism, faith
Well here we go again – yet another federal election campaign. The evening newscasts will be filled to the brim with stump speeches and political panelists. The papers will give us all the latest polling data – who’s leading, who’s picking up steam, who’s falling into the basement of political opinion. The local candidates will…
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altogether joy?
My sermon from this past Sunday – the first in a series in the book of James. ____________________ This morning we begin a series of sermons in the book of James – a relatively short letter that comes just after the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. The book of James, as we’ll see,…
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Dare we sing the Magnificat?
My sermon from this past Sunday – the fourth Sunday in Advent. ________________________ Exuberant. It’s a wonderful word, isn’t it? Exuberant. It’s one of those words that carry their meaning so well. Even to say the word ‘exuberant’ is almost to be lifted into exuberance. The Mirriam Webster dictionary offers the following definition of the…
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Looking to the Horizon
I participated in a pulpit-exchange this past Sunday with the Rev. Paul Wu of the Taiwanese Robert Campell Presbyterian Church, which is just a few blocks over from us here in NDG. It was perhaps a first step toward a closer relationship, and greater cooperation, between our congregations. This is the sermon I preached there.…
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Biographies of Faith: Joni
A sermon in my series on ‘biographies of faith’. ____________________________ A couple of weeks ago we began a short series on biographies of faith. Over these few weeks I am doing something just a little different in my sermons as we consider the lives of women and men who are for us examples of the…
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Biography of Faith: Bonhoeffer
The first sermon in a series of four that explore the lives of men and women who are models for us of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. For this sermon I relied in part on the biographical piece by Burton, in the Cambridge Companion to Bonhoeffer – particularly on the question…
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Creation Poetry
A sermon preached today, in a series on the Apostles’ Creed. _________________________________ I believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. Creator of heaven and earth. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the…
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I Believe – I Trust
The first sermon in a series on the Apostles’ Creed. Here, in part, I have taken up the question of trust as it is explored by Wolfhart Pannenberg in his The Apostles’ Creed: In the light of today’s questions. ______________________ This past week Tuesday saw the death of the America writer John Updike. It…
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Sermon: Doubt and Dogma (2)
A sermon preached in anticipation of a sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed. A few themes from this sermon are borrowed from Timothy Keller’s book, The Reason for God. (Sermon date: January 18, 2009) ________________________________ As we continue to prepare for a sermon series on the Apostles Creed, we turn from thinking about doubt last…
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