Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sermon video - Pregnant with God's Nevertheless

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Dealing with Weeds

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There is an unfortunate tendency among us liberal Christians to act as though sin and evil are not real problems. There are only environme...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Church as "Family"

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The term "Church Family" is very familiar to many of us who grew up in church.  This was likely the most common way the congrega...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Where Did This Come From?

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One of the difficult things about being a new pastor in a congregation is figuring out what changes to make. I take it as a given that cha...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sermon - Pregnant with God's Nevertheless

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Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 1:1-14 Pregnant with God’s Nevertheless James Sledge                                                          ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

What I Really Need

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Today's gospel is one of those passages that has always made me a bit uncomfortable. People bring a paralyzed man to Jesus, presumably...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Hi, My Name Is ____, and I'll Be Your Host

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At my first meeting in my new presbytery, there was a time before the actual meeting for break-out groups on different topics. I went to o...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sticking with Eliab

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Have you ever spent time in prayer, hoping to figure out what God wanted you to do, came up with some sense of what that was, and then som...
Monday, May 21, 2012

What Is Faith?

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In today's gospel reading, a Roman centurion comes to Jesus seeking healing for one of his servants.  When Jesus says he will come and...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Preaching Thoughts on a Non-Preaching Sunday: Whatever Happened to Matthias?

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Preaching may be my favorite activity as a pastor, but it is nice to have Sundays when I don't preach.  To have a week where I'm n...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

No Earthly Good

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Today is The Ascension of the Lord, a feast day I was totally unaware of for much of my life.  (I barely knew about Advent and Lent as a c...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Dangerous God

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The LORD is king; let the peoples tremble!      He sits enthroned upon the cherubim;           let the earth quake!     ( Psalm 99:1) ...