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The Latest Decalogue
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) Thou shalt have one God only; who Would tax himself to worship two? God’s image nowhere shalt thou see, Save haply in the currency: Swear not at all; since for thy curse Thine enemy is not the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will help to keep the world thy […]
Transfiguration
Dazzling Darkness (Lk. 9:28-36) by Barbara Brown Taylor Those of us who spend a lot of time in church have heard Luke’s story of the transfiguration so often that we may think of it as a public event. According to Luke, it was not. Only three other people were there, which means it was an […]
Escape From the Tomb (Jn. 20:1-18)
by Barbara Brown Taylor When I was a girl, I spent a lot of time in the woods, which were full of treasures for me. At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — […]
The Wise Men
Off By Nine Miles (Isaiah 60:1-7; Matthew 2:1-12) by Walter Brueggemann Matthew is not the first one to imagine three rich wise guys from the East coming to Jerusalem. His story line and plot come from Isaiah 60, a poem recited to Jews in Jerusalem about 580 B.C.E. These Jews had been in exile in […]
Lent
by Thomas G. Long On the day after Christmas, my family and I moved from New Jersey to Georgia. In order to set up housekeeping as swiftly and smoothly as possible, we had carefully marked the packing boxes holding our more urgently needed belongings with such labels as “coffee maker!!!” “linens,” “clock radio” and “kitchen […]
Becoming What You Are
March 11, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Exodus 3: 1-15 & Luke 13: 1-9 In trying to create a story for themselves, the remnant of what had been the province of Judah before its Babylonian period imagined that one of its founders – perhaps an alien Egyptian by birth – somehow rose to a position […]
Best Sermons Ever
Christopher Howe (compiler) Continuum, 2001 Some people – I’m one of them – actually enjoy reading others’ sermons. When John Claypool used to publish his each week, and sent them out once a month, I often found myself dropping everything to read them. I’ve done the same with other contemporary homiletical “greats” like Barbara Brown […]
I Give Up; I Don’t Know
The Rev. Dr. Daniel P. Matthews A young American was eager to search for the spiritual truths of the world and had heard of a holy man in the Far East. He journeyed there and climbed up the steep mountain to the cave where the holy man lived. He sat outside the cave for an […]
Temptations of Jesus
Feb. 25, 2007 We’re On Our Own By Harry T. Cook Luke 4: 1-13 If I were a masochist, I would try to gather up and read some of the sermons that will be preached today on this text. Their preachers will first of all, many of them, treat the story uncritically as something that […]
Biblical Absurdities
(Here’s a fairly common sort of list… Find the absurdities in these absurdities. Rowland). Biblical Absurdities Compiled by Donald Morgan ——————————————————————————– …. GE 1:3-5, 14-19 There was light (“night and day”) before there was a sun. (Note: If there were no sun, there would be no night or day. Also, light from the newly created […]
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