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Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014
What are our lives to look like and how can they best reflect Christ? It is from this perspective that Leviticus 1–2, 9–18 have something…
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Epiphany 2 • Isaiah 49:1–7 • January 19, 2014
This is the great epiphany—the mystery hidden for ages but now revealed, the surprising “new thing” of God’s salvation!
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Proper 18 • James 2:1–10, 14–18
For faith alone can justify; Works serve our neighbor and supply The proof that faith is living.
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Proper 23 • Isaiah 25:6–9 • October 12, 2014
Jesus’s own resurrection, however, is a first fruits and so a foreshadowing of that day. In his Son Jesus, Yahweh has initiated his eschatological reign…
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Epiphany 5 • Isaiah 58:3–9a • February 9, 2014
When we put up an appearance of righteousness without attendant love manifesting itself in deeds for the neighbor, we only fool ourselves and, in the…
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Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19
Sin becomes altogether too common and familiar and so “safe.” The writer to the Hebrews screams the contrary alert: Sin kills.
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Reformation Day • Revelation 14:6–7 • October 26, 2014
Our God, our “ever present help in distress” is present with us in Christ who holds us tightly and sustains us with his Spirit in…
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Proper 24 • Isaiah 45:1–7 • October 19, 2014
The clear point is that “God is God, and we are not,” nor is any human government. When we look at the world around us,…
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Proper 15 • Ephesians 5:6–21
The Christian Life, A Wake up Call.