Tag: Stranger
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Hospitality To Strangers – A Sermon On Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 And Luke 14:1, 7-14
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers.” So we’re told in today’s Letter to the Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16. So let me ask you, how’s that working for you these days? What does hospitality mean and look like for you and me, Uvalde? I think it’s gotten a bit harder after May 24th. Sure, by Read more
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Hospitality: Unlocking The Door Of The Heart – A Sermon On Luke 14:1, 7-14
I don’t know if we were entertaining an angel that day, but I do know that she was a stranger. She was not a stranger in the sense that she was unknown and unfamiliar to me. I had dealt with her before. She was, however, a stranger in the sense that she was different from… Read more
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Hospitality Heals Our Estrangement – An Advent Sermon On Luke 1:39-45
Throughout our lives we find ourselves in circumstances or situations that are strange, new, incomprehensible. They’re beyond our previous experience and more often than not they leave us feeling estranged from ourselves, an alien in our own life. You know what that’s like, right? I wonder if that’s exactly how Mary feels. I wonder if… Read more
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Recognizing The Stranger Within – A Sermon On Mark 1:21-28
What are your stories of being alienated from yourself? What’s your first memory of that? What is your most recent memory of that? When have you felt like a stranger in your own skin? I think we all live as women and men with unclean spirits. They are those times when we betray our own… Read more
Interrupting the Silence 