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Won't You Be My Neighbor
A sermon preached July 14, 2013, at Union Congregational Church UCC in North Reading, MA.
The Freedom to Act
The Freedom to Act Preached at the Congregational Church UCC in Iowa City, July 7, 2013 Sermon text Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 I felt inspired on the fourth of July, and wrote out most of the sermon text for this week. I was really inspired by the recent political developments around the voting rights act, and […]
We ARE Justified by Faith
We ARE Justified by Faith A placeholder entry for commentary on the sermon offered May 26, 2013 at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Sylva, NC. Romans 5:1-5 The general idea is that being justified by our faith gives us freedom to act, to follow through and be confident of our place as […]
What Winning Looks Like
What Winning Looks Like Sermon text: Acts 9:1-20 Preached April 14, 2013 at Cullowhee Baptist Church This a rich text. It provides us with two different call narratives. The first and most famous is the call to Saul on the road to Damascus. This is, arguably, the second most important passage in the New Testament […]
When to Walk Away
I hit all the points I wanted to hit, and yet I felt that I did not do justice to the urgency of the message I was preaching--that we so often look at the past and wish we could have been there to commit some violent act to prevent an injustice, that we forget that we have the opportunity to insist on peaceful solutions every day. We find it so easy to tell a story and have no sympathy for the characters we recognize to be "bad," that we get used to thinking about life in that way, rather than as the complicated, messy milieu we encounter every day.