A Sermon About Calling Out Injustice Even When It’s Uncomfortable (or costs you your head)

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 …

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A Sermon About Storms and When It Feels Like God Is Asleep on the Job

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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