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Latest Sermons for August - October 2008

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August 3, 2008 - We cannot absolutely and accurately, definitively and clearly define and describe the kingdom of God.
August 10, 2008 - Our boat is on a storm tossed sea.  Here, though, we are blessed. 
August 17, 2008 - It’s language that can be a bit clumsy for public reading.
August 24, 2008 -
August 31, 2008 - I don’t know if you know this but, for those of us with the joyous responsibility of preaching the Word of God, the lectionary is like a box of cracker jacks

September 7, 2008 - “[Therefore] we encourage one another towards the secular modern heaven of self-fulfillment:
September 14, 2008 -
September 21, 2008 -
September 28, 2008 - We are climbing Jacob's ladder . . .

October 5, 2008 - This is a question that has haunted Christianity from the very beginning, . . .
October 12, 2008 -
October 19, 2008 -
October 26, 2008 - Who am I?

November 2, 2008 -
November 9, 2008 - Choose this day

2008 Sermons:

January 6, 2008 - . . .it was not with joy and gladness and songs of mirth, but with the solemnity and fear...
January 13, 2008
January 20, 2008 - I can’t really say that I grew up during the age of chivalry.
January 27, 2008 - Hauerwas is prolific, tireless, and, almost unfailingly, provocative.

February 3, 2008 - And so the Word of God became fleshed out.
February 10, 2008 - WWJD: what would Jesus do? He would just say no.
February 17, 2008 - “Wives, be subject to your husbands.”
February 24, 2008 - If you’ve ever had to endure watching the British sport of cricket. . . .

March 2, 2008
March 9, 2008 - The knee bone is connected to the thigh bone.
March 16, 2008
March 23, 2008 - Life never occurs in general.
March 30, 2008 - The first conversation recorded in the Bible is that between Eve and the serpent

April 6, 2008 - I’m just not ready, yet, I want to keep hold of the sacred
April 13, 2008 - nothing focuses life so clearly as facing its irretrievable loss.
April 20, 2008 - he can’t get the songs out of his head all week!
April 27, 2008 - – whether solicited or unsolicited, directly or indirectly – some feedback will be given.

May 4, 2008 - At any given time we are open to the dual questions of “from whence” and “to whither.”
May 11, 2008 -
May 18, 2008 -
May 25, 2008 - Sometimes one’s past has a way of catching up with one

June 1, 2008 - “Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night.
June 8, 2008 - Confirmation
June 15, 2008 - The Bishop
June 22, 2008 - . . .these texts are – that they offer us – the very word of the God. . .
June 29, 2009 - He warns: “I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.”

July 6, 2008 - Wretchedness exists, but it really belongs to others.
July 13, 2008 -
July 20, 2008 - “Take heed, lest you forget the Lord your . . .
July 27, 2008 - In two millennia, few subjects have spawned such controversy as the identity of Jesus . . .

2007 Sermons:

January 7, 2007 -
January 14, 2007 - God is not an object or an idea, a thought or a fantasy.
January 21, 2007 - Redemption
January 28, 2007 - What they have not done is equally important

February 4, 2007 - "There is no [longer any] circumstance that justifies despair.”
February 11, 2007 - Words create...words accomplish things...words breathe.
February 18, 2007 -
February 25, 2007 - Lent is an appropriate time to make confessions, but if this is problematic for you. . .

March 4, 2007 - Futility is not a negotiable word.
March 11, 2007 - What constitutes a tragedy?
March 18, 2007 - Our finest expressions become hollow incitements, linguistic cotton candy. . .
March 25, 2007 -

April 1, 2007 - We have been given the capacity to speak, and speech is a stupendous privilege
April 8, 2007 - The boast of our age is that like no others before us, . . .
April 15, 2007 - His first word to his disciples was “Peace,”
April 22, 2007 - This is what tragedy spawns. Hand-wringing turns to the need for explanations. . . .
April 29, 2007 - . . .saying the experience would be pure bliss.

May 6, 2007
May 13, 2007
May 20, 2007 - The most prevalent personal fear that Americans seem to share is public speaking.
May 27, 2007 - It is lived in specificity and we know it best in specificity.

June 3, 2007 - Sin and Righteousness and Judgment
June 17, 2007 - "Do you see this woman?"
June 24, 2007 - "Does he really mean what he said?"

July 1, 2007 - For freedom Christ has set us free.
July 8, 2007 - What is the difference between creation and invention?

August 5, 2007 - Vanity
August 12, 2007 - What is the purpose of Christian faith?
August 19, 2007 - Schadenfreude
August 26, 2007 - Strive to enter through the narrow door.

September 2, 2007 - ...it is not properly our place to play Scripture – for in truth – it is Scripture that plays us
September 9, 2007 - It’s the one place in all the world, we’re told, where total freedom reigns. . .
September 17, 2007 - Part of the marvel of being human is our ability to render our very selves in words...
September 23, 2007 - What happens when with sudden clarity the world becomes defined by imminent threat?
September 30, 2007 - His extreme poverty is matched only by his innocence.

October 7, 2007 - Lord, increase our faith.
October 14, 2007
October 21, 2007- Nothing we do will cause God to lose integrity
October 28, 2007 -

November 11, 2007 - ...the culminating cries of an exasperated man....
November 18, 2007 - ... swing Christianity like a big stick, by which we have beaten and bruised.....
November 25, 2007 - Choosing an ending is a hard task.

December 2, 2007 - So you might want to keep in mind that lights shine best at night.
December 9, 2007 - Few of us rest confidently in our ultimate heavenly welcome
December 16, 2007 - ....“repent” has become a fairly ugly term, the sharp barb at the end of an accusation.
December 23, 2007 -
December 25, 2007 - Our Town