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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Sermon: The story continues
maybe Smith does fit in this year’s telling of the Easter story. After all, there’s no doubt that he has failed, fallen short of what has been expected of him. And one of the things that the Easter story reminds us is that all human beings do fail. Part of being human is stuffing up. Continue reading
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Tagged April Fool's Day, cricket, Easter Sunday, failure, Mark 16:1-8, resurrection, Steven Smith
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Sermon: How is Jesus like a bronze serpent?
The cross turns our ways of seeing the world upside down. God becomes powerless to defeat death; human suffering is taken up into the life of God. Continue reading
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Tagged crucifixion, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John 3:14-21, Jurgen Moltmann, Martin Luther, Moses, Numbers 21:4-9, snakes, The Crucified God
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Sermon: Absolutely Appropriate Anger
At the very least, when young people facing the injustice of the world express anger at that injustice, even in language we much more mature people find intemperate, we could attack the injustice and not them. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Closing the Gap, Emma Gonzales, gun control, gun violence, John 2:13-22, Justice, Lent 3, swearing, Tarneen Onus-Williams, violence
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