“Our Big Brother”
18th Sunday after Pentecost
World Communion Sunday
Hebrews 2:10-12
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Archive for September, 2009
“The Most Practical Word”
17th Sunday after Pentecost
James 5:13-20
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We have spent the last four weeks preaching from the Letter of James, an epistle that speaks in the strongest and most basic terms about how to live the Christian life, about how faith must express itself through how we live. The book of James is a kind of Wisdom Literature. Wisdom Literature concerns itself with morality, ethics, the practical wisdom of right behavior. These writings attempt to offer insight into human nature, and into the nature of reality, so that hearers and readers might live more responsibly, more ethically, and more faithfully. (more…)
“The Littlest Power”
15th Sunday after Pentecost
James 3:1-12
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I dropped our boys off at kindergarten this week. It was about as hard as I had imagined. They did fine. Me, not so much. It’s a mixed bag, watching your kids grow up. It is a constant process of letting go, and of giving your child away to other people, more and more, and then more still. This first giving-away feels momentous. It is hard on the heart. (more…)