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  • Is it a paradox? 2021/02/28
    So what is a paradox anyway? Well, this is one of the reasons God helped us invent dictionaries. I’m grateful to all those people who then put the dictionaries online. par·a·dox  (păr′ə-dŏks′)n. 1. A statement that seems to contradict itself but may nonetheless be true: the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking. 2. A person, ...
  • It’s the first Sunday in Lent 2021/02/21
    It’s the first Sunday in Lent, not these Sundays are in Lent, not of Lent. It doesn’t seem to make a huge difference but if Lent is forty days long and you count all the calendar days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday you get more than forty. The Sundays aren’t counted so the math ...
  • Another look at Transfiguration 2021/02/14
    Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching people ...
  • It’s all about context 2021/02/07
    Context is one of those tricky things, at least it can be tricky. Today’s sermon is taken from St. Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians, “I have become all things to all people.” (1 Corinthians 9:22b NRSV) It was all too easy for me, especially when I was younger, to look at Paul’s statement and write him ...
  • Rules? Do we need them? 2021/01/31
    Look! A question for sermon title! In fact, two questions this time. As is so often the case, there is a short and easy answer, “Yes.” So we’re done? No, not really, there is a bit more to it. It is obvious we need rules. Rules of the road keep us safe, or at least ...
  • Why bother? 2021/01/24
    One of the questions we often find ourselves asking is “Why bother?” why bother doing the dishes/laundry, they will just get dirty again why bother doing the right thing, no one notices or cares These are question we might find ourselves asking. As questions go they aren’t so bad because we know the answer. We bother doing these ...
  • Why can’t things stay the same? 2021/01/17
    I’d say no one likes change but that really isn’t true. Just about no one likes change but there are some people who actually do, I’m not one of them. There are people who might be surprised at this but I am actually a “small ‘c'” conservative, a very, very, very small “c” conservative. What ...
  • Baptized, but why? 2021/01/10
    The Baptism of the Lord Sunday is one of the recurring Sundays in the church year. I don’t mind recurring Sundays. I feel there is real value in looking again at something familiar . . . but actually looking at it. Regardless of all that I was wondering what I was going to say about ...
  • Let us begin 2021/01/03
    Happy New Year! Again! One of the nice things about using the church calendar is getting two New Year celebrations. We had the beginning of the new liturgical year a few weeks ago and we are now into a new calendar year too. I don’t tend to make resolutions, nothing wrong with them but if last January ...
  • We are all in the family 2020/12/27
    Merry Christmas! We are all in the family, the same family. Our New Testament lesson for today makes it very clear, “God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.” (Galatians 4:4b-5 NRSV) This is ...
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