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  Wrestling for a New Name and a New Life, A Sermon on Genesis 32:22-31

  October 20, 2013

  “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Do you remember that one? Or how about this one? “I’m rubber you’re glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.” Maybe you said those things to yourself growing up. Maybe you shouted them back at someone else. Maybe Read more
• Crossing the Jabbok – A Sermon on Genesis 32:22-31 (Jacob Wrestling), Proper 13A

  July 31, 2011

  The collect and readings for today, Proper 13A, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost may be found here. The Old Testament reading, Genesis 32:22-31 , serves as the basis for the sermon below. The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Read more