Sermon for ML 403 Preaching Lab Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 6 October 2015 Matthew 11.16-19, 25-30 (Pentecost 5A) Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. You know the words. And you could probably sing …
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Every first Friday of the month, people of faith gather in prayer and song in front of the immigration detention center in Broadview, IL, to minister to our sisters and brothers who are being deported that day and to advocate for a more compassionate immigration policy in this country. This month I was invited to share …
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Louis Stokes VA Medical Center 15 July 2015 + Pentecost 7B Mark 6.14-19; Amos 7.7-15 [Now with audio for your listening pleasure] Sometimes I wish I didn’t come from a tradition that compels me to preach the lectionary because sometimes the preacher winds up with texts like this one, texts that make you add a …
Cleveland Clinic / Louis Stokes VA Medical Center 21 June 2015 / 24 June 2015 Pentecost 4B Mark 4.35-41; Job 38.1-11; Psalm 107.1-3, 23-32 “It was a dark and stormy night.” So begins the novel Paul Clifford by nineteenth-century English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It’s perhaps the most well-known first line of any novel and has …
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A sermon about darkness and God's presence that I preached at the interfaith service at my CPE site
Pastor Josh Evans 