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Ezekiel 17 God’s Unfinished Business I think I will name the message this morning “God’s unfinished business.” If you have ever heard a sermon on Ezekiel, it was probably a sermon about the valley of dry bones.  This is in chapter 37. The reading for this morning comes from chapter 17. Instead of dry bones,…

Acts 10:9-28 Peter’s Dream I called this sermon “Peter’s Dream.” Maybe a better title would be “The Day Peter Got Woke.” When he fell asleep on the roof of the house in Joppa, he dreamed of a kosher world. It wasn’t just a kosher diet–I’ve never eaten anything unclean–it was a kosher world. His world…

John5:1-15 Abide in Me It has not been a good week for sermon writing, I just have to say that. It has been a week of 6’s and 7’s, not 2’s and 4’s. Nothing fits. I listened to part of the live broadcast of the Supreme Court hearing this week. The attorneys arguing the case…

Earth Day The text is John 10:10-16. It does not seem like an Earth Day text. It’s about thieves and hired workers and wolves and the good shepherd. Shouldn’t we be contemplating the story of creation found in Genesis—God looked on all that God made and blessed it and call it good. Or Psalm 8…

Stop the Killing Heal the Hurting The story in Luke’s gospel, chapter 24, begins in this way. Two followers of the way of Jesus were walking down the road going toward the village of Emmaus. They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened recently in Jerusalem. The setting and the…