PALM SUNDAY SERMON – An Inconvenient Messiah
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View ArticleMarching in the Wrong Parades – A Palm Sunday Sermon
A sermon preached a few years ago after having read “The Last Week” by John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg and “Jesus for the Non-Religious” by John Shelby Spong. These two books are invaluable tools...
View ArticleJesus Sets Us Free to Save Ourselves: a sermon for Palm Sunday – Matthew 21:1-11
In our parish, on Palm Sunday our liturgy stays with the commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Trusting that our members will join us on Good Friday, we have not adopted the practice of rushing...
View ArticleJesus Sets Us Free to Save Ourselves: a sermon for Palm Sunday – Matthew 21:1-11
In our parish, on Palm Sunday our liturgy stays with the commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Trusting that our members will join us on Good Friday, we have not adopted the practice of rushing...
View ArticleOn Palm Sunday, An Inconvenient Messiah Parades Into Our Midst
I wrote this sermon years ago, when I’d first given up theologies which required a subscription to the notion that humans fell from grace and need a Messiah to save them. It’s funny how we cling to...
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Jesus: Human or Divine? Marching in the Wrong Parades On Palm Sunday, An Inconvenient Messiah Parades Into our Midst Jesus Sets Us Free to Save Ourselves Jesus is still up there on that ass making a...
View ArticleHosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Yada, Yada, Yada, we’ve heard it all before…a...
Our worship began outside in the bright sunshine of the first morning of springtime, where we spoke of the reenactment of one of the two parades that took place in Jerusalem nearly 2000 years ago....
View ArticleHosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Yada, Yada, Yada, we’ve heard it all before…a...
Last year our Palm Sunday worship began outside in the bright sunshine of the first morning of springtime, where we spoke of the reenactment of one of the two parades that took place in Jerusalem...
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Hosanna! Hosana! Hosana! Yada, Yada, we’ve heard it all before… Jesus: Human or Divine? Marching in the Wrong Parades On Palm Sunday, An Inconvenient Messiah Parades Into our Midst Jesus Sets Us Free...
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Trading Our Palm Branches for Tomahawk Missiles or White Helmets? Hosanna! Hosana! Hosana! Yada, Yada, we’ve heard it all before… Jesus: Human or Divine? Marching in the Wrong Parades On Palm Sunday,...
View ArticleMarching to Our Jerusalems – Palm Sunday and Our Passions
Sermon inspired by the March for Our Lives! The notes used for this sermon can be found here PROCESSION OF PALMS
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Marching to our Jerusalems – Palm Sunday and Our Passions Trading Our Palm Branches for Tomahawk Missiles or White Helmets? Hosanna! Hosana! Hosana! Yada, Yada, we’ve heard it all before… Jesus: Human...
View ArticleMarching to Our Jerusalems – Palm Sunday and Our Passions
The notes used for this sermon can be found here
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I had all but decided not to post my regular sermon resources for Holy Week. It seemed somehow inappropriate, in these surreal days, to look to previous sermons for inspiration. However, after...
View ArticleJesus Is NOT the Answer to All Our Questions
I remember arriving in high school, at the tender age of thirteen and longing to learn all of the answers. So many of us were trained that way as children, to believe that growing up meant learning...
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