Sermon preached May 8, 2011
First United Methodist Church, Duluth
Text: Luke 24:13-35
Play the first part of “You’re So Vain” Carly Simon
Do you know people like that, who could walk into a party like they were walking on to a yacht, people who seem to light up a room when they
… View MoreSermon preached May 1, 2011
Text: John 20:19-23
Children’s Sermon
Begin with a demonstration of rapidly preparing for airline security.
I don’t mean to boast, but I am really good at this, and you know why? I don’t want to be that guy that fumbles and stumbles and holds up the line. I want
… View MoreSermon preached Easter Sunday April 24, 2011
Text: John 20:1-18
John Updike was a well-respected American writer who died in January 2009. He had a wonderful gift for language. He could use his gift to evoke a smile. Updike was a golfer, and sometimes took up his pen to describe that experience, as in
… View MoreSermon preached Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011
Texts: Philippians 4:4-7; I Thessalonians 5:15-24
Poetry is not always the best way to begin a sermon. I know some, in fact, who would prefer never to hear it here or anywhere else – unless maybe the poem begins: “There once was a man from Niagara, who
… View MoreSermon preached April 10, 2011
Texts: Psalm 13; Job 17:6-7, 23:1-6
Play excerpt: Bessie Smith, “St. Louis Blues”
The blues. Some of us may like blues music. Many of us like music that has roots in the blues or intersects with the blues – rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, country. Whatever
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