Tag: Lent
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Getting into Lent
A sermon more or less from worship at a little Southern Indiana church this past Sunday, on Luke 4:1-13. Lent can sneak up on us … it was just Christmas, and then already the VFW is making Mardi Gras food and Jay C has paczkis in the bakery section, and here we are reading about…
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Second Sunday in Lent
We had a great sermon today on temptation and protection. The text was Luke 4:1-13. I suppose we would have had this great sermon last week if there hadn’t been technical difficulties, but I was glad to get to hear it this week. First, there was that rather horrifying observation from the text itself when…
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Ash Wednesday
A relative handful of folks gathered in our sanctuary this evening at 7:00 for one of the Lenten-Easter season’s “special mid-week services.” Three of the small churches in town have collaborated on these special services for at least the past 20 years or so, and take turns hosting one of the days – Ash Wednesday,…
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
We spent some time in Sunday school this morning considering the meaning of worship for us in connection with the text of 2 Chronicles 7. We thought some about the meaning of numbers, specifically the extravagantly large numbers of sacrifices in 2 Chronicles 7, wondering whether what we were supposed to think in our own…
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Third Sunday in Lent
We did spend time in Sunday school this morning considering why Abraham did what he did in Genesis 22. I said, I think that if we think he obeys God because he believes God will make him rich, or great, or famous, we would probably have to question whether he is a moral model for…
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First Sunday in Lent
We are starting to see the sun. In class, we were not sure that the disciples in Joppa expected Peter to do anything miraculous when they sent for him in Lydda. We thought they needed consolation, and were reaching out for pastoral care. And we were not sure that Peter thought he could “do” anything…
Matters of Interpretation 