Tag: the Good
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On Knowing What Good Is
Substance of a sermon based on Isaiah 55, preached at a small church in Southern Indiana on the Third Sunday in Lent, 2022 At first, this beautiful passage from the book of Isaiah might seem out of place in the very middle, the third Sunday in Lent. It’s awfully happy, for Lent. Yes, there are […]
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Reflecting on Revelation 19 1-8
What really inspires us to praise God? What do we enthusiastically praise God for? The more we think about this question, the deeper it gets – but it seems to lie at the center of our study of Revelation 19:1-8, for Sunday, November 21. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a couple […]
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3rd Sunday in Advent
The conversation in what we loosely call our “Sunday School class” this morning, after a sermon that challenged people to think about “who Jesus is for you,” started out on the physical ailments and progressive losses associated with aging, and moved on to the stresses and strains and psychological idiosyncrasies we collect around Christmas, and […]
Matters of Interpretation 