Tag: faith
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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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Keep the Faith [Sermon]
Young, Art, 1866-1943. Jesus Wanted poster, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=59079 [retrieved October 5, 2025]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesus_wanted_poster.jpg. I’m a fan of the Chicago Cubs. Even though I grew up on the South side of Chicago, I’ve been a Cubs fan for most of my life. The…
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The Better Part [Sermon]
Wisdom comes from many places, including graffiti. You may have heard this before or seen it on social media: “To be is to do”—Socrates. “To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra. Let’s go to God in prayer. God of wisdom, may the words that I speak, and the ways they…