Sermon preached June 23, 2013
First United Methodist Church, Duluth
Texts: Leviticus 18:19-26; 19:9-15, 18-19, 33-34; 25:8-17, 25-28
So here is the Bible I received from my church in the spring of my third grade year – “Young Reader’s Bible.” Doesn’t this just look like the kind of Bible young readers would want to
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Texts: Luke 13:1-9
Theodicy. It is the term for theological thinking about God and evil. If God is both all-good and all-powerful, how do we explain hurt, pain, evil, destruction? Why do bad things happen, and why do bad things happen to good people? These questions have vexed some
… View MoreSermon preached June 2, 2013
Texts: II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 3:14-18
In 1616 Galileo went to Rome to persuade the Church authorities that the view he seemed convinced was correct – namely, that the sun was the center of the universe around which the earth rotated, a view proposed earlier by Copernicus, Galileo
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