Recent sermons

• The Problems and Promise of Healing - an Excerpt

  Well, it ain’t much really, but here is my meditation on healing for today.  Hopefully my words will be buttressed by the liturgy of healing that will follow my message, and which is the heart of the worship service for today anyway.
  The texts for the sermon can be found in this post.
  Today I want to [...]

  May 13th, 2007

• Help Needed - Pleeaasse Someone Help

  The last couple of weeks I have had a really hard time writing my Sunday sermon.  The texts have not been all that inspiring (yes, I do know that they were inspired by God, but that really hasn’t helped me much in dealing with them), and I have struggled to come up with a preaching [...]

  May 10th, 2007

• A Foretaste of What Love Can and Will Do

  This is my sermon for tomorrow - Thanks to everyone I stole from. I think I have given everyone credit for what I have taken. I’ve been waiting for a sermon in which I could use the Fred Craddock story about soup for some time, and this sermon feels about right for it.  Special thanks [...]

  May 5th, 2007

• Conversion - A Sermon for Easter 3C based on Acts 9

  I have just posted my sermon for today on my preaching blog Proclamation.  An excerpt follows.  If you want to read the sermon in its entirety, click here or on the link at the end of this post.
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  This was my message for today (April 29, 2007).  It is based on the story of Saul’s conversion.  [...]

  April 29th, 2007

• How Much Do You Love Jesus? Show Him

  A sermon based on John 21:1-19
  I have just posted this sermon on my blog Proclamation.  An excerpt follows, if you want to read more, then click the link here or at the end of the excerpt.
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  John, chapter twenty, which is right before our reading this morning, ends with verses 30 and 31,which read:“Now Jesus did [...]

  April 26th, 2007