1.31.21 4th Sunday after Epiphany: Liberty to the Captives
Release Date: 01/31/2021
11.7.21 All Saints Unbound
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A sermon on John 11: 32:44
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9.12.21 Proper 19B: Speak Wholeheartedly
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Sermon for Sunday, September 12th
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8.22.21 Proper 16B: Power of the Armor of God
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Beloved— especially in such times as of this— my hope and my prayers is that as the writer to the Ephesians says we might “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of [God’s] power.” In a world doubled over in pain and suffering… in a world swirling with disinformation needlessly costing people lives… in a world reeling from the costs to our children of imposing ‘normal’ onto that which is not— in our world I pray that we might “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of [God’s] power” and declare the gospel boldly. From where I stand our world is in...
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8.15.21 Proper 15B: Matter Matters
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sermon on John 6:51-58
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8.1.21 Proper 13B: Individual Right to decide for..
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a sermon on 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a
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7.25.21 Proper 12B: Acceptable Loss
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A sermon on 2 Samuel 11
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7.18.21 11B: Compassion
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A sermon on Marck 6:30-34, 53-56.
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6.13.21 Proper6A: Mustard Seeds
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A sermon for Sunday, June 13th on Mark 4:26-34
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5.23.21 PentecostB: Catch Your Breath
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Sermon on Pentecost (May 23, 2021)
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5.16.21 7thEasterB: Jesus and the Holy Potatoes
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... I cannot help but me mindful of the liturgical moment in which we find ourselves. We are in that 7th Sunday of Easter, in the time between the Ascension of our Lord into heaven and the descending of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, upon the ministers, making the church the church and saying ‘it is time.” And so liturgically and actually we find ourselves in that liminal time of transition. We all know that life has changed, and what it has changed into being has not yet unfurled. We hear in that first chapter of Acts, in the time between Ascension and Pentecost that this the...
info_outline...We know why, the hamster gnaws and the caged bird sings. For most of us have had or have a cage of some kind. Our cages may not look the same or have the same shape, but for us they and the spirits that bind us in them just as real and just as present...
Hear me clearly beloveds: any sort of unclean spirit may be part of your reality, but is not you yourself. Like for the man in the synagogue in an unclean spirit who Jesus liberates— it is your cage and you are within it.
And, you have a God who is the Deliverer. A God who binded the strong man, sent the legion off a cliff, exorcized this man in Mark from his cage, broke open the gates of hell and vanquished the powers that would destroy. Through the love and power and liberation of Jesus Christ we are unbound. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, Jesus came to “proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners” (61:1b). Free from whatever cage we find ourselves within. Free through Christ.