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Sermons on Faith (Page 3)

February 25, 2018 Second Sunday in Lent

Even stranger are the thoughts that God reveals in the gospel for today.  Jesus predicts his own suffering and death.  And resurrection, too, although the crowd gathered doesn’t seem to hear that – they are so distressed by the thought of Jesus suffering and dying.  Then Peter, the self-appointed leader of the disciples, took that…

January 21, 2018 Epiphany 3

God doesn’t need to fish for a compliment.  God doesn’t need our “toadying,” as the British put it, nor our flattery.  God exists and has existed and will exist without our constant praise.  Or even our occasional praise.  Yet God looks for our response.  God waits for it.