Sermons

When Pigs Fly

March 23, 2015
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Block the text one great preacher says. See the action. Who is where in relation to the other? Who moves where in the text? What do you see? As I blocked the action in this our third story of healing in as many weeks it was as in the story of the widow’s son two…

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Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given

November 16, 2014
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Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given Matthew 26:17-18; 26-28 This morning we come, once again to the table, the table of our lives as Christians, the table of remembrance, of celebration, of love and of service. This morning we come to this table, where, as the words we will say later remind us “we can most fully be ourselves…

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Softly

March 24, 2014
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Easter    John 20: 1 -18 You know how, when the sun softly falls across your page as you read Or, on your face, as you wake in a day that is unclaimed by all your plans, or when it settles on the wall in the late afternoon, making art of the shadows When that…

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Our Life is Showing

January 20, 2013
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  Imagine, the Lectionary yields up today, what Luke offers as Jesus’ inaugural address. The Lectionary offers it up on the day our new ministry together begins. I come to the Sackville Pastoral Charge and I am met by these words offered up by the Lectionary, these words of Jesus coming to Nazareth placed by Luke at the beginning…

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