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Wonder-ful
Text: Matthew 17:1-9 The Transfiguration Story is always the bridge we cross into the long road of Lent. I must have preached on this...
Created to Care
Text: I Corinthians 12:14-27 Every so often I hear a phrase that lingers, a phrase not quickly forgotten. I heard just such a phrase...
Becoming What We Are
Text: Matthew 5:13-16 I love to talk about God. I suppose it is an occupational hazard. Hang around me and sooner or later we will be...
A Forgotten Saint
Acts 9:10-19a My name is Ananias. If you do not know my name I am not surprised and frankly, I am relieved. I was never an exceptional...
Walking in the Dark
Text: Psalm 27 It is hard to walk in the dark. Despite my age and knowing better, I still often try it some nights. I wake up early,...
I Never Dreamed
Texts: Psalm 126:1; Matthew 2:18-23 I lived a somewhat schizophrenic childhood. The lessons I learned in school often did not jive with...
The Gift Worth Giving
Text: Matthew 2:1-3, 7-11 Fred Buechner once wrote: “The gifts that the . . . Magi, brought to the manger in Bethlehem cost them plenty...
A God with Arms
Luke 2:1-20 In her book, Breathing Space, Lutheran pastor, Heidi Neumark tells a story that will probably sound remarkably familiar to...
A Christmas Visitor
Luke 2:1-20 It was Christmas Eve evening in 1980. Most memories of that first Christmas season away from Virginia are now largely a blur....
No Exchange Necessary
Matthew 1:18-25 I am a big fan of Joseph. Not so much the Joseph with the coat of many colors from Genesis, but the Joseph we meet in the...
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