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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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