A Baptist, a Roman Catholic, and an Episcopalian meet up in hell. After awhile they start comparing notes. The Catholic and the Episcopalian work up the courage and ask the Baptist: “How did you end up here?” The Baptist responds, “I drank on a Sunday.” Likewise the other two ask the Catholic, “How did youContinue reading “I know my Redeemer Lives”
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A Sermon on Privacy
Today’s lessons give us two very different images of men who are secluded. Elijah the Tishbite, on the run from Ahab and Jezebel, hides in a cave on Mt. Horeb. A man from Geras inhabits the tombs outside the village because his seizures make him unfit to live with the other Gerasenes. Both men haveContinue reading “A Sermon on Privacy”
Imagine Abraham, your children will be like the stars. A Sermon for Lent 2
The preacher William Sloane Coffin used to tell a story about Abraham. The story isn’t in the Bible, but “that’s okay” Sloane Coffin would say, “because I know it.” The story took place in Haran, where Abraham and his family have made a life for themselves, just after Abraham hears the call from God toContinue reading “Imagine Abraham, your children will be like the stars. A Sermon for Lent 2”
“You are my child, the Beloved, in you I am well pleased.”
“You are my child, the Beloved, in you I am well pleased.” It’s hard to say exactly what they saw that morning on the banks of the Jordan. It’s hard to know exactly what the voice sounded like. As the young man Jesus prayed, water still dripping from his hair, the grey sky split. AnContinue reading ““You are my child, the Beloved, in you I am well pleased.””
Mike Angell 