Sermon for Sunday, April 25, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Shepherd
Psalm 23, Revelation 7: 9-17; John 10: 22-30
All autobiography is a little suspect, as we know the author is prejudiced in favor of
the person whose life is being written. It’s a genre in which it is possible to get the dirt–
again, not always trustworthy–on [...]
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Sermon for Sunday, April 18, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Where You Do Not Wish to Go
Psalm 30, Revelation 5: 11-14; John 21: 1-19
I was talking to a man–not a churchgoer, I’m not sure really how religious in a
conventional way, but a bright, well-read man. He’s older, and he said, “Doesn’t it say in [...]
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Sermon for Sunday, April 11, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
His Blood on Us
Acts of the Apostles 5 : 27-32, Revelation 1: 4-8; John 20: 19-31
At a men’s club in eighteenth-century England those present discussed whether one
would, if beset on the road by an armed robber, shoot him. Being a highwayman, which is
what such [...]
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Dialog April 2010
Sermon for Easter, April 4, 2010 The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg
Table, Tomb, Table
(A Table in Three Acts)
Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29; Acts 10: 34-43; John 20: 1-8
In our tradition we have no altar. An altar is a place where a sacrifice is offered.
Those traditions which teach the physical presence of Christ in the communion elements
have [...]
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