Epiphany, the Word 2

A Sermon on Preaching for the Season of Epiphany

1 Cor 1:10-21

The lectionary committee, the people who cut up the texts, don’t do it very well at times. That’s not entirely their fault. The original texts had no spaces between the letters, no divisions between the sentences. The letters are all in upper case (capital letters). Although there were some general sections, and there was a way of indicating a question, it was quite different from the way it’s laid out for us in chapters and verses and paragraphs.

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Epiphany, Born again

A Sermon on the Christian Life for the Season of Epiphany

A Lutheran woman has written an account of becoming a born-again Christian. She asks: “What does this mean?” She answers: “It means there was a point in my life where I came to the understanding that I had really offended God and that there were two ways it could go. Either through my repentance, belief, and trust in Jesus’s blood, that he paid the fine for me, or through my entry into hell.”

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The Light Enlightens Our Lives

A Sermon on the Christian Life for the Season of Epiphany

In the season of Epiphany we look at how the Word of God works. Today is about the Christian life. We begin with Matthew 5:1-10 where we find the nine blessings of the Beatitudes. Let’s look at the middle blessing in Matthew 5:7: “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.”

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Faith Comes by Hearing

A sermon for the season of Epiphany.

In this season of Epiphany we celebrate the coming of the light. Today we look at how the light comes to us through the Word. We begin with John 1:1-3: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” These glorious verses reflect Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

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