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Proper 18 • Ezekiel 33:7–9 • September 7, 2014
In the chapter that follows our text for today Ezekiel points us to the Messiah as the true Shepherd who will deliver and feed his…
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Proper 13 • Isaiah 55:1–5 • August 3, 2014
He came to dance our dance with death, died on a cross, and rose victorious never to die again.
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Proper 16 • Isaiah 51:1–6 • August 24, 2014
This passage is about the end times in which the gospel is not only present (as it is in all such readings) but in which…
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Lent 1 • Genesis 3:1–21 • March 9, 2014
By divine design, Genesis 3 is an inseparable part of a unit (Gn 1–3), and neither Genesis 1–2 nor Genesis 3 should be discussed without…
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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 16 • Ephesians 5:22–33
The bulk of this passage has as its focus the role of husbands and how they are to love.
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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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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 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.”