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The Good Shepherd – Reflection on Vocation in Our Lives
Biblical Text: John 10:11-18 Full Sermon Text The jumping off point for this sermon was Jesus’ statements on being the good shepherd. The way John writes about it, in modern terminology, Jesus is...
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Scandalized by the Word hidden in our Midst
Biblical Text: Mark 6:1-13 Full Draft It is a truth of this world that the really important things are usually hidden right in our midst. Think “rosebud” from Citizen Kane. All the great stories are...
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NPR had a short segment on a question that was sent to Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution). The hook was for those upcoming graduates who are lucky enough not to get sucked into the maw of this economy,...
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I usually try and write something at least every other day, but this week it just didn’t really make it to print. Things tended to come as short intuitive blips, but of the sort that even investing...
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Perfectly Free, Perfectly Bound
Biblical Texts: Mark 6:14-29, Amos 7:7-15 Full Sermon Draft The real question in free and bound is: to what? The normal way we talk about free and bound is in regards to sin. That comes under the...
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Right Timed Calls and Rightly Ordered Priorities
Biblical Text: Matthew 4:12-25 (Psalm 27) Full Sermon Draft The text is Jesus calling Andrew and Peter and James and John. I probably owe a few former pastors an apology as I use them as a straw man....
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Prophetic Rhyming
Full Sermon DraftDownload Biblical Text: 2 Kings 2:1-12 The fancy word is typeology or archetype. The meaning is a person or character or action that is a distilled example of human experience. What...
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