pericope
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Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014
The resurrection is coming: that is the goal, and it brings hope to a hopeless people, not just death but resurrection.
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Baptism of Our Lord • Isaiah 42:1–7 • January 12, 2014
Through the baptismal covenant, we are united with Christ and receive his blessings.
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Easter 4 • Acts 2:42–47 • May 11, 2014
All who believed quite naturally and quite regularly shared all things in common, as would, as should, the superabundantly blessed persons of a singular household…
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Epiphany 4 • Micah 6:1–8 • February 2, 2014
We are the beneficiaries of God’s new and, indeed, greater paradigm, Christ.
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Easter 7 • Acts 1:12–26 • June 1, 2014
God has one covenant people of God, including his OT people built on the twelve sons of Israel/Jacob and his NT people built on the…
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Epiphany 6 • Deuteronomy 30:15–20 • February 16, 2014
Choice within the context of Deuteronomy 30 is not a matter of picking and choosing. Choice is a covenant term wherein God is the subject.
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Proper 21 • James 5:(1–12) 13–20
Regardless of which section of the pericope one selects, all three share the following themes: we are to live out our identity in Christ even…
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Proper 10 • Isaiah 55:10–13 • July 13, 2014
From Promise to Triumph
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Proper 21 • Ezekiel 18:1–4, 25–32 • September 28, 2014
The preacher is encouraged to give attention to the rhetorical structure of the pericope that reconstructs a conversation between Yahweh and Israel through Ezekiel, although…