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Of Grapes and Wine [Sermon]
Mary and I used to watch do-it-yourself film festivals, usually based on a director or actor. One of these was the Alan Rickman film festival. We didn’t watch every one of the 72 films and TV shows he was in, but we watched some of the highlights: I think we watched Robin Hood: Prince of…
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What Is Honorable? [Sermon]
Here’s a story I made up, but it’s similar to many true stories: Pat worked for a company that was, as most companies are, very concerned with profit for this quarter. Pat’s supervisor told Pat to change the process used to make a product. Pat knew this would make the product dangerous. And so Pat…
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What Is Fair? [Sermon]
Have you ever bought something at a store, and a week later, it goes on sale? It doesn’t seem fair. When you bought it, it seemed like a fair price, but now that it’s on sale, it doesn’t feel right. Some people will try to return the item for full price and then buy it…
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How Much Grace? [Sermon]
Pain doesn’t always help. If I’m touching something hot or sharp, pain will tell me to move away. Pain tells me when to stop doing something damaging. But sometimes we have already received the information, and we don’t really need the pain. If I bang my elbow into a corner, it’s going to hurt and…
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Healing [Sermon]
There’s a story going around social media about a mother who has been ordered by a court to not take her daughter to church or to read the Bible to her. And people of faith – especially Christians – are very distressed by this. How has this country reached the point where the courts have…
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It’s a Secret!
I went to a wedding for a couple I had gone to seminary with. A person that had met me years ago took me aside to tell me a story about when he told someone – a friend or relative – at a church service about my history. He said “I told him ‘That lady…
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Does Jesus Discriminate? [Sermon]
Earlier this year, a very prominent United States politician said “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left…
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Where Is God [Sermon]
Have you seen The Odyssey? I’m going to try to avoid spoilers here, in case you haven’t read the epic poem or seen any of the adaptations. But it’s about Odysseus – or Ulysses if you know the Latin, or the song by Cream – a Greek king and hero in Greek mythology, and his…
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You Give Them Something to Eat [Sermon]
The first time I went to college, I arrived with little cash. I had a check to start a checking account, but it was a three day weekend, and everything was closed. I was on the university’s meal plan, but to get the meal card, I had to visit the office… which was closed, because…
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A Little Goes a Long Way [Sermon]
Robert Tappan Morris was a PhD student at Cornell University. At the time, the internet was relatively small, but Morris wanted a sense of how large it was. So he wrote a program. The program would look at the computers to which the computer was connected, and send itself to those computers. Those computers would…