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“God Puts His Name on Us.” Sermon on Numbers 6:22-27 for New Year’s Day, January 1, 2016

  “Happy New Year.” “Best of luck in the New Year.” “Out with the old, in with the new; / May you be happy the whole year through.” New Year’s greetings and well wishes are nice to hear, but I’m … Continue reading

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“The Confessions of David, the Shepherd King” Sermon on Psalm 23 for Easter 4, April 23/26, 2015

I used to have a children’s Bible. It was a regular Bible, but with pictures of some of the Bible stories. In the psalms—I think it may have even been on the page opposite Psalm 23, there was a picture … Continue reading

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“You have peace because you have Christ.” Sermon on John 20:19-31 for Easter 2, April 9/12, 2015

I’m afraid that we define “peace” by saying what it’s not rather than what it is. We see the “Peace Symbol” everywhere. The lines in the circle represent the semaphore positions for for “N” and “D,” which stood for nuclear … Continue reading

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“My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone.” Sermon on Psalm 62 for Pentecost 6, June 27/30, 2013

A.   We all have our disappointments. Usually because things turn out differently than we had hoped. Usually because we expected better from someone or something. Jesus knew that kind of disappointment. In today’s Gospel we saw how James and … Continue reading

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