Tag: grace
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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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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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Reliable Witness [Sermon]
Thomas. Who was called Didymus.Which means Twin. Thomas comes from the Aramaic ta’oma, which also means twin. Twin of… whom? There’s a thought that Thomas Didymus looked like Jesus, or was spiritually similar to Jesus. And now we don’t think of Thomas the Twin. We think of Doubting Thomas. Let’s go to God in prayer.…
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Higher Ground [Sermon]
“You may feel you are on the mountaintop. You may seek higher ground by traveling on a rocket into space. But the higher ground you seek is not in the altitude in orbit of a planet, or in the arrival to another planet like mars: The higher ground you seek can be found in the…
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When You Don’t Need Grace [Sermon]
Sometimes, when one is driving on a nice, sunny day with very little traffic, you can take your eyes off the road briefly, to tune in a radio station – do people still use radios? – or to change the playlist on Spotify. One time I was riding my motorcycle eastward in Michigan. The speed…