Tag: messianic
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Third Sunday of Easter
[A sermon on John 10:1-15 …] Here’s a story I’m told is true: It’s about the Soviet foreign minister of the 1940s, Vyacheslav Molotov. Molotov was the kind of leader who would negotiate a deal with the Nazis to keep them out of Russian territory (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939), and would support that pact…
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Exegetical Exercise – John 10 1-15
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, April 30 is John 10:1-15. This is the text (NRSV): “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. (2) The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of…
Matters of Interpretation 