Tag: gospel
-
Public Proclamation. Yikes!
Hazel Motes is the main character in Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel Wise Blood. Hazel Motes is a street preacher of the kind that is rare today and perhaps hard for us to imagine. He stands outside movie theatres, and on the hood of his old car, proclaiming his gospel—he competes with other hawkers of religion…
-
gospel and the gazette
The beginning of a short sermon series – this week, looking at transformation through travel… ______________________ A few decades ago the Swiss theologian Karl Barth offered a suggestion to young seminary students and theologians, a suggestion we are going to take him up on over the next few weeks. Barth suggested that they read with…
-
money matters…
My sermon from today – no doubt more provocative than usual… __________________________ We turn back to the letter of James this morning for the second sermon in this series. And based on our reading from James this morning you will realize that today we are talking about money. It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise…
-
Christ the King
My sermon from this past Sunday. _________________ Today, as is indicated on our bulletin cover, is Christ the King Sunday. Next week we will begin a new church year as we move into the season of Advent. And today we close out the old church year, doing so by celebrating the kingship of Jesus Christ.…
-
Biographies of Faith: Elizabeth Fry
A sermon in my continuing, brief series on biographies of faith. ____________________ We continue, this morning, with our short series – biographies of faith. We have all-too briefly explored the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gave us a sense of costly grace – of what it means to stand firm for Jesus Christ and his…
encrusted words 