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How’s Your Love Life? – A Sermon On Mark 12:28-34
The year my dad was in Viet Nam my mom, sister, and I lived in my mom and dad’s hometown. I was about nine or ten years old. Every few weeks I’d go to Alfie’s Barber Shop for a haircut. It was always the same routine. I’d climb up in the chair and Alfie would…
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“Let Me See Again” – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52
Most of you have heard enough of my preaching that you won’t be surprised when I tell you that I don’t want us to literalize today’s gospel (Mark 10:46-52) and make it about only physical blindness and sight. We often hear this story and think of blindness and seeing in their outward forms. But what…
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Too Big For Your Britches? Good – A Sermon On Mark 10:35-45
James and John want to be on top. They want to sit on either side of Jesus in his glory. The other ten disciples are angry about this. I picture them looking at James and John and saying, “You arrogant, selfish, and presumptuous sons of Zebedee. Who do you think you are?” It sounds like…
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God Wastes Nothing Of Our Lives – A Funeral Sermon On Romans 8:14-19, 34-35, 37-39
Where to begin? What to say? He was a good man, a crazy friend, a character, an operator, an entrepreneur. He was a story teller, funny, gregarious, outgoing, and mischievous. He was a rancher, a pilot, an excellent shot, a great golfer, an Aggie. “He was fun to be with and we had some good…
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What’s Your One Thing? – A Sermon On Mark 10:17-31
“Do you want to be something or do you want to do something?” That’s the question a friend of mine was asked by his spiritual director many years ago. I wonder what that question brings up for you in your life today. How would you answer it? What matters more to you – being something…
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Jesus’ Prescription For Healing And Wholeness – A Sermon On Mark 9:38-50
A friend of mine often says, “Sometimes the good news is bad news before it is good news.” That sure fits today’s gospel (Mark 9:38-50). Today’s gospel tells us that the prognosis is good – life, and peace with one another. But before that comes there is the treatment. And that’s the bad news. The…
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Becoming Our Better Selves – A Sermon On Mark 9:30-37
“On the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest” (Mark 9:34). How do you imagine that argument went? Today’s gospel (Mark 9:30-37) doesn’t tell us what the disciples said but it’s not difficult to imagine. We need only recall the times we’ve argued about and striven to be the greatest. Maybe…
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What Causes You To Sigh? – A Sermon On Mark 7:24-37
Last week I had a phone conversation with a clergy colleague in the diocese. We have a close though slightly formal relationship. After we exchanged the usual and expected greetings and pleasantries I said to him, “So how are you, really?” He sighed deeply and said, “It’s déjà vu. It’s just like it was last…
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Come And See
“Come and see” is what Jesus said to the two disciples of John the Baptist who asked him, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” (John 1:35-39) Jesus responds to their question but he does not answer it. Instead of an answer he extends an invitation. Instead of information he offers an experience. Instead of a destination…
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