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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: Getting Through to Each Other

March 13, 2015 No Comments

Listening is a two-way street in our relationship with God.

Speaking to the Soul: Christ’s Hand on the Trash Can

March 12, 2015 3 Comments

John 8:21-32 I used to have a wonderful, sensitive and intelligent dog, a Labrador retriever mix, who was frightened of loud noises, especially if they

Speaking to the Soul: Not Waiting for Hope

March 11, 2015 4 Comments

Is hope the pre-condition or the end-product of our perseverance through suffering?

Speaking to the Soul: A Game of Inches

March 10, 2015 No Comments

John 3:13-22 I’ll let you in on a trade secret. Most young preachers are a lot like rookie baseball players. When we first mount the

Speaking to the Soul: Tend this Vine

March 9, 2015 1 Comment

Our Psalm for this morning contains one of the most beautiful images of God’s people, telling the whole story of God’s people as if they were a single vine. Imagined as a single vine, God’s people have deep and wide connections with the earth and with one another, though spread across time and space.

Speaking to the Soul: Fight Club Jesus

March 8, 2015 1 Comment

Our Gospel text this morning has Jesus entering the temple, kicking out the money changers, and generally raising heck. This is not the meek and mild Jesus, little lamb of God, to whom we’ve grown accustomed. It is a muscular and angry Jesus.

Speaking to the Soul: Perpetua and Her Companions

March 7, 2015 4 Comments

Commemoration of Perpetua and Her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 Psalm124-127 Daniel 6:10-16 Hebrews10:32-39 Matthew 24:9-14 Saints come in all kinds. Recognized saints, by churchly

Speaking to the Soul: Behind the Scenes

March 6, 2015 No Comments

Will the world notice we were here today? The gospel makes a case for working in the background of this world.

Speaking to the Soul: Who is Jesus?

March 5, 2015 2 Comments

I think that in everything he did Jesus was pointing at something else. He was inviting us into relationship. He was asking us to challenge ourselves, to question, to open our hearts. He was showing us over and over again a living God, a God who desires relationship with us, who wants dialogue, who wants to teach us, change us, open us up like a seed so that we can sprout new roots and stems.

Speaking to the Soul: The Vanishing Jesus

March 4, 2015 No Comments

Today’s gospel reminds us how unobtrusively Jesus sometimes works in our lives: “Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there.”