Archive for 2009/06


Sermon for the 3rd Sun. After Pentecost, June 21, 2009, “The Calm in the Eye of the Storm,” Text: Mark 4:35-41

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This past week, the week leading up to Father’s Day, there have been several programs on Public Radio about famous fathers, and their equally famous sons and daughters. The interviews often follow a similar pattern: “How did your father […]

Sermon for the 2nd Sun. After Pentecost, June 14, 2009, “A Mustard Seed World” Text: Mark 4:26-34

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For over a century, writers, theologians, psychologists and philosophers have wrestled with what we could call the existential dilemma of modern society: it seems that, as we continue to make astonishing leaps in our knowledge about the inner workings of the natural world, human […]

Sermon for Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2009, “Winged Bulls, Burning Coals and the Spirit From Above,” Texts: Isaiah 6:1-8, Romans 8:12-17, John 3:1-17

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Several years ago, when I lived in Chicago, I was talking with my landlady and she commented on some of the abstract art in my apartment. We got to talking about the differences between abstract and realistic art, and she mentioned that she had […]

Sermon for the Day of Pentecost, May 31, 2009, “The Holy Spirit - Leading Us Into Truth and Empowering Us to Serve Others,” Texts: Acts 2:1-11, John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

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Over the years, I have noticed that, for many people, the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is a difficult idea to get their minds around. For many, the Holy Spirit seems to be reserved for the spiritually elite or the spiritually […]