Sermon preached November 10, 2013
Texts: Luke 19:1-10
How many of you over 40 knew that song? How many of you under 40? How many did not want to raise their hand because it
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Sermon preached November 3, 2013
Texts: Luke 19:1-10
Many of you know that my family and I lived for seven years in Dallas, Texas. Our daughter Sarah was born there. She is a Texan by birth. These days when the Vikings play the Cowboys are difficult for
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Sermon preached October 27, 2013
First United Methodist Church, Duluth
Texts: Luke 18:9-14
Baseball. It feels a little cold to be thinking about baseball, but we are in the middle of the World Series, “the fall classic.” Baseball is alive and well, and for those of us
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Sermon preached October 20, 2013
Texts: II Timothy 3:14-17; Luke 18:1-8
This week Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Not long ago, the world lost a former Nobel laureate in literature when the Irish poet Seamus Heaney died on August 30. He
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Sermon preached October 13, 2013
Texts: Luke 17:11-19
I am backsliding. Just a couple of weeks after I said I would look for sermon examples from more contemporary culture, here I am reaching back, back before my time.
