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The Church’s One Foundation

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 admin

Acts 7:55-60

A sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter

Several weeks ago we looked the problem of being a second generation disciple. We learned that we’re all second generation Christians. We are tempted to think if we had only been there and had a visual, hands-on experience, then we would believe. But that wasn’t true for them or us. Even for them there was no private miracle because it is always by faith in him.

We have often looked at the history of the church and realized we can’t stand on the claim that “history proves” Christianity is right. The history of the church does not do that. It doesn’t work for the history of our lives, too, when we face what life has really been.

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Three Sermons for Shepherd Sunday

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 admin

We offer three different sermons for Shepherd Sunday:

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They Knew Him in the Breaking of the Bread

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 admin

Luke 24:35

A sermon for the Second Sunday after Easter

What do we talk about when we get together?

The weather, for sure. And gas prices and grocery prices. We talk about unusual accidents or happenings around town and in the wider world. We avoid politics and religion, except when we are among like-minded friends. For the most part we talk about things that are important to us, that affect us.

When we have particularly good news to share, we are like that woman in the parable in Luke 15, who, when she found the coin she had lost, called together her friends and neighbors and said (15:9): “Rejoice with me for I had found the coin which I had lost!”

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Clothed in His Righteousness Alone

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 admin

1 Peter 1:17-23

A sermon for the Second Sunday after Easter

Last week we looked at Doubting Thomas and learned that everyone is a second generation disciple. There is no advantage to anyone who was there who saw him, touched him, and heard him because this was all God’s choosing and electing, giving them faith, not a super miracle or super proof. Rather, we are all those to whom God gives faith, and we are called to be witnesses and not philosophers who have some kind of proof.

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The First and the Last, the Almighty

April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 admin

Rev 1:8, 17-18

A sermon for the First Sunday after Easter

Revelation 1 presents a panorama and we find one theme: Rev 1:8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Almighty.” Again in vs 18: “I am the first and the last, the living one; I died and behold I am alive for evermore. I have the keys of Death and Hades.” Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. The chapter is really saying: The Lord is Lord. There is no other lord. The Lord is lord.

How can that be? As we follow the debate about evolution, those who are attacking the idea that there God is involved point out again and again: If God was involved, it didn’t work out very well. There are all kinds of awful things and problems. This is hardly God guiding creation, whether you say in “one day” or in “seven days” or “seven ages.” He didn’t do it very well. Furthermore, if Lord is Lord, how come there’s evil? There are tragedies in our individual lives and tragedies and catastrophes in our country and beyond. Why doesn’t the Lord make it right?

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