Homiletics helps
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Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014
After describing what Jesus will go through, the sermon retells how Peter answers correctly Jesus’s question about whom the disciples say he is only to…
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Proper 19 • Genesis 50:15–21 • September 14, 2014
Filled with fear before the power of Joseph to kill them, and in the absence of Jacob to protect them, they come face-to-face with the…
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Proper 17 • Jeremiah 15:15–21 • August 31, 2014
Though the Lord “understands,” Jeremiah grieves over the persecution he is suffering and questions whether the Lord will be “like a deceptive brook.”
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Proper 12 • Ephesians 3:14–21 • July 26, 2015
Paul is praying that the Ephesian Christians will be able to see the blueprints, so to speak, for the new church construction project, that is…
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Proper 28 • 2 Thessalonians 3:(1–5) 6–13 • November 17, 2013
Our God is a working God who has blessed us with the opportunity to serve him as his instruments to love and serve our neighbor.
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Proper 9 • Zechariah 9:9–12 • July 6, 2014
The people of God (depicted as the daughter of Zion/Jerusalem) are summoned to rejoice and exult at the king’s arrival.
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Easter 2 • 1 John 1:1–2:2 • April 12, 2015 Drawn into God’s Fellowship
The Christian fellowship is a humbler fellowship, namely the fellowship of the forgiven children of God—and it’s not a solitary walk, but a fellowship with…
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Easter 5 • Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60
This text challenges us to let grace define our witness; grace that speaks the truth in love, and grace that sows the seeds of forgiveness.