Tag: Tuesday in Holy Week
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Sermons For Holy Week And Easter Sunday 2024
Alleluia. Christ is risen. Thank you for reading and supporting Interrupting the Silence. I am grateful for your presence through this past Holy Week and into Easter. O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to hisdisciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith,that we may behold him in all his Read more
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Doing The Truth – A Sermon On John 12:20-36 For Tuesday In Holy Week
I said it to you on Palm Sunday, I said it again yesterday, and I’ll say it today — All through Holy Week we are meeting and examining truths and realities about ourselves, our lives, and our world that feel too big, too dangerous, or too painful to handle. Those truths, however, are more than Read more
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Sermons For Easter Sunday And Holy Week 2023
Alleluia. Christ is risen. Thank you for reading and supporting Interrupting the Silence. I am grateful for your presence through this past Holy Week and into Easter. Below are the sermons I preached. Easter peace be with you. O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and Read more
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Figuring It Out As We Go – A Sermon On John 12:20-36 For Tuesday In Holy Week
On Palm Sunday I told you that Holy Week would be a week of conflict, confrontation, and choices. I told you that again yesterday. Any guesses on what I’m going to say today? In case you missed it the first two times let me say it again. Holy Week is a week of conflict, confrontation, Read more
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Sermons For Easter Sunday And Holy Week 2022
I often follow a thread or theme through Holy Week to Easter. This year I focused on self-betrayal, the ways in which we turn away from ourselves and our lives, and live less than who we truly are. It will be easier to see and follow that theme through these sermons if you begin with Read more
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The Power Of Holy Week – A Sermon On John 12:20-36 For Tuesday In Holy Week
Yesterday I said that it must have been hard to be Judas. Well, I think the same thing can be said about Jesus in today’s gospel (John 12:20-36). “The hour has come” he says. “Now my soul is troubled.” It must have been hard to be Jesus. I think that is some of the best Read more
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What Troubles Your Soul? – A Sermon On John 12:20-36
Here’s my question: What troubles your soul today? What is the hour from which you want to be saved? Now before you answer, let me explain what I am asking about. I’m asking about more than just something that upset you or didn’t go your way. I am asking about more than an inconvenience, interruption,… Read more
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A Weak and Troubled Soul – A Sermon On John 12:20-36 For Tuesday In Holy Week
When has your soul has been troubled? What troubles your soul today? What’s it like for you to recognize and feel your own weakness? Are you scared, embarrassed, ashamed? Do you feel inadequate, defective, vulnerable? What’s your prayer in those times, “Father save me from this hour?” Read more
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Dying to See Jesus, A Sermon on John 12:20-36
“Sir, we wish to see Jesus,” they said to Philip. It’s not an unusual request. I suspect most of us have said or thought it. Twice a week the children in our parish school sing, “Open our eyes Lord, we want to see Jesus.” I wonder, however, if the visitors who came to Philip had Read more
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