Tag: Man born blind
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Here’s Mud In Your Eye – A Sermon On John 9:1-41
I’m going to begin this sermon a little differently from how I usually do. I’m going to start with a visual aid and a little experiment that I hope will help open our eyes. About ten or twelve years ago we commissioned this icon of Jesus and Philip. Take a good look at the icon. Read more
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Seeing All There is to See – A Sermon on John 9:1-41
Everything about Jesus, his life, his words, his actions, are a judgment on our lives and world. That judgment offers us the chance to see as he sees, to live as he lives, and to be as he is. His judgment, however, is not an adjudication for the purpose of punishment. Rather, it is a… Read more
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“Surely we are not blind, are we?” – A Sermon on John 9:1-41, Lent 4A
The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 9:1-41. As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his Read more
Interrupting the Silence 