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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 haveContinueContinue reading “A Sermon on Privacy”

Faith and the American Dream

Today Jesus sets the bar pretty high, don’t you think?  That last sentence is really the clincher: “Be perfect, you know, like God is perfect.”Really Jesus?  You wonder how he thought the disciples would respond:  “Oh, oh, now I get it.  Be perfect, like God, that’s where we were going wrong.  Thanks Jesus.”Now, I’m beingContinueContinue reading “Faith and the American Dream”

Sermon from Sunday Feb. 21- Shaun White and Jesus

Today is the First Sunday of Lent, and we begin with Jesus in the desert.  The story seems a good place to start.  Jesus spends 40 days in the desert, in fasting and prayer, to prepare for the start of his ministry.  We, like the early church, spend the 40 days in preparation.  It turnsContinueContinue reading “Sermon from Sunday Feb. 21- Shaun White and Jesus”