Tag: resurrection
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examination for life – a visit from Jesus
Image you know someone who has always dreamed of visiting the Great Wall of China. It probably wouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that someone would want to visit the Great Wall. Parts of that wall were built as long as eighteen hundred years ago by the first emperor of China – most of…
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the sign of jonah – resurrection
I begin this sermon with excerpts (including a few minor edits) from the first chapter of a novel entitled Galore. The novel is written by Michael Crummy, who is a is Newfoundlander, and this particular novel is set in a fictional Newfoundland town, a coastal town, called Paradise Deep. Galore won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize…
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Beauty and Baptism
The image presented here is of a painting by the internationally known artist Makoto Fujimura – it is entitled “Golden Sea.” (To the right is a poster version we have purchased, and which hangs in the church entranceway.) And for this sermon I would actually like to do something a little bit different. I’d like…
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down by the riverside: the water flows endlessly
My sermon from today. In this I follow Tremper Longman’s interpretation of the ‘framing’ of the text by a second voice – his interpretation of the ‘conversation’ between Koheleth and this second voice. _____________________ Last week we began with the tree – and we are beginning there again this morning. We know that trees are…
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recognizing jesus
We don’t know a whole lot about Mary Magdalene. In fact, before we get to the last chapter of Jesus’ story, there is only one clear reference to Mary Magdalene in the gospels. Almost in passing, Luke tells us that once when Jesus was travelling around preaching with his disciples, there was a group of…
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the problem of recognition…
It is a peculiar thing that Jesus’ followers don’t recognize him after his resurrection. In the narrative of John’s gospel, think of Mary Magdalene, who comes first to the empty tomb – she turns around and there is Jesus. But she doesn’t recognize him. She mistakes him for the gardener: “Sir, if you have carried…
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Resurrection
Some quotations, set at odds: Seneca: “What is the body? A weight on the soul to torture it.” Epictetus: “I am a poor soul, shackled to a corpse.” And: Paul: “Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is…
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Celebrating Communion
Today is a day of paradox – a day of tension. And the tension of this day comes from the fact that the church calendar lets us choose between two different themes or liturgies for today. Is it to be the Liturgy of the Passion? Do we focus on the suffering of Jesus?…
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Letter to Jesus
A sermon preached at the induction of the Rev. Greg Davidson into pastoral ministry in the congregation of Briarwood Presbyterian Church. References to Kierkegaard are from his Practice in Christianity. ________________________________ An open letter to Jesus. February 8th, 2009 Dear Jesus, It’s me again – no doubt you’re more than familiar with…
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