Sermon, April 29, 2012
Sermon Audio John 10:11-18 Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! For the past few weeks, since Easter to be exact, we’ve been reading Gospel accounts of Jesus’ post resurrection appearances. Today is different. As you may have noticed, there’s no story of Jesus appearing suddenly in a locked room, joining in on the disciples’ [...]
Everything Changes: From Indifference to Interdependence
Everything Changes: From Indifference to Interdependence John 10:11-18 Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! For the past few weeks, since Easter to be exact, we’ve been reading Gospel accounts of Jesus’ post resurrection appearances. Today is different. As you may have noticed, there’s no story of Jesus appearing suddenly in a locked room, joining [...]
Sermon: Everything Changes: From Fear to Faith
John 20:19-31 Sermon Audio Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! Well, everything changed for us last week, didn’t it? For one thing, we got the alleluias back in worship, something over which Harold Robinson is clearly extraordinarily relieved. We heard the most beautiful music and we worshipped with the scent of the lilies wafting [...]
Everything Changes: From Fear to Faith
Everything Changes: From Fear to Faith John 20:19-31 Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! Well, everything changed for us last week, didn’t it? For one thing, we got the alleluias back in worship, something over which Harold Robinson is clearly extraordinarily relieved. We heard the most beautiful music and we worshipped with the scent [...]
After Resurrection
He must have been tired. So tired. You know it has to be exhausting, all that suffering and dying and rising again. I’m tired this morning after resurrection… and I wasn’t even the one who died. Every year it’s the same…Easter wears me out. But even in the craze of dyed eggs [...]
A Promise Kept
A Promise Kept Mark 16:1-8 Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! Today it’s Easter, everyone dressed in finery, the sanctuary decorated unlike any other time of the year. The music is bigger, the program is bigger, everything is ramped up to celebrate. It’s the biggest day of the year, and I don’t know about [...]
Some Herbs
Promises, Promises: Whoever Believes
Promises, Promises: Whoever Believes Numbers 21:4-9 Lena Paahlsson’s wedding ring was designed especially for her. It was a white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, and, as most wedding rings are, full of sentimental value in addition to being very pretty. Paahlsson lost her ring, though, in 1995, one day when she and her daughters [...]
A Lukewarm Social Club That Makes God Sick
It has been a long time since I’ve gotten an email like this one. A few thoughts: 1. I wasn’t going to teach Baptist Polity this fall. Too much to do. I think I might reconsider. Geez. Some days I feel surrounded by misperceptions about what it means to be Baptist. By Baptists. 2. There [...]
Promises, Promises: I Will Be Your God
Promises, Promises: I Will Be Your God Genesis 20:1-17 In 2003, Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from his seat on the Alabama Supreme Court. The judicial ethics panel voted unanimously to remove Chief Justice Moore from his seat because he had refused repeated orders to move a 2.6 ton granite monument of the Ten [...]
