Can We Withhold the Water? — Sermon for Easter 6B (Acts 10)
Acts 10:44-48 Last Sunday we heard a baptism story and witnessed Richard’s baptism. This morning we hear another baptism story that’s part of a much larger story…
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Look, Here Is Water! — A Sermon for Easter 5B (Acts 8)
Acts 8:26-40 What’s your baptism story? I’ll confess that mine is a bit complicated. It starts at the Catholic hospital where I was born. Apparently, the nurses baptized me just…
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The Way of Salvation – Sermon for Easter 4B (Acts 4)
Christ Before Annas (top); Peter Denying Jesus (bottom) Acts 4:5-12 When Peter and John went to the Temple to pray they encountered a man with a disability. That encounter led…
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Complicity and the System – A Sermon for 3rd Sunday of Easter (Acts 3)
Acts 3:12-21 When Peter and John went to the Temple to pray, a man who had been crippled since birth called out to them, begging for…
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Death Has Met Its Match – Sermon for Easter Sunday (Mark 16; Isaiah 25)
Mark 16:1-8; Isaiah 25:6-9 On the morning of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome made their way to…
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The Steadfast Love of the Lord – Sermon for Palm Sunday (Psalm 118)
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” That’s what the crowd shouted when Jesus rode into Jerusalem. Perhaps they…
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A Heart-Felt Covenant — A Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Lent (Jeremiah 31)
Jeremiah 31:31-34 What does the future hold for the Michigan Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)? Some of us participated in listening sessions this past…
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The Healing Covenant – Sermon for Lent 4B (Numbers 21)
The Brazen Serpent (Mt. Nebo) – Giovanni Fantoni Numbers 21:4-9 When I read the Old Testament passages for Lent, I envisioned a sermon series on the biblical…
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Covenant Rules and Regulations — Sermon for 3rd Sunday of Lent (Exodus 20)
Exodus 20:1-17 The God who created the universe is a covenant-making God who called Abraham and his family to leave their homeland for an unknown future. God…
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