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A Sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Picture the scene. Jesus walks down to the shore of the Seas of Galilee, probably looking for a little room to breathe, and the crowd follows him anyway. It happens so often in Matthew that you start to wonder if Jesus ever got five minutes alone. This time the…
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Matthew 11:16–19, 25–30 (NRSVUE) | July 5, 2025 There is a moment in this passage where you can almost hear the exhaustion in Jesus’s voice. Not defeat… Jesus is never defeated, but the particular weariness that comes from doing the right thing, and watching people find a reason to dismiss it anyway. He has just…
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Sent: The Prayer You Have to Live Matthew 9:35–10:8 (NRSVUE) I’m convinced Jesus is tired. You can feel it in the text. He has been going town to town, village to village… teaching, preaching, healing. Matthew gives us this sweeping summary in 9:35 that sounds almost like a travelogue: “Jesus went about all the cities…
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What He Sees in You Matthew 9:9–13, 18–26 (NRSVUE) ——— There’s a kind of day most of us know well. You wake up with a plan. Maybe a short list, maybe a long one. You’ve got things to do, people to see, problems to solve. And then, somewhere around 9 a.m., the day starts making…
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Sermon based on Acts 2:1-21 There is a question tucked in the middle of this story that I want to pull out and hold up for us, because it is the question everything else hangs on in this story. A crowd gathers outside a house in Jerusalem. They hear wind they can’t explain. They see…
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Sermon based on John 17:1-11 It’s after the meal. The bread has been broken, the cup has been passed, and Judas has already slipped out into the night. Jesus has been talking for chapters reassuring, preparing, promising. And then, without warning, he stops talking to them and starts talking for them. He lifts his eyes…
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Sermon Based on John 14:15-21 Jesus never stops talking. That is not a complaint, just an observation to connect us with what we read here last week. Last Sunday we were in John 14:1–14, and the lectionary hit the brakes at verse 14. However, Jesus did not. He kept going. He had more to say……
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Sermon based on John 14:1-14 The scripture we just read also gets read at a lot of funerals. And that’s for a good reason. It’s one of the most comforting things Jesus ever said. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many…
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Based on Luke 24:13-35 I’ve sat in hospital waiting rooms with families packing up the things they brought with them to the ICU. The empty coffee cups, the phone chargers, the extra change of clothes they never used. And at some point, almost always quietly, almost always to no one in particular, someone in that…
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Sermon based on John 20:19-31 The Gospel of John tells us when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear. I want us to sit in that sentence for a moment. The disciples had heard it by…
