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Baptizing Christ, becoming Christlike
With God’s help, we baptize her. With God’s help, we rise refreshed with her, remembering that God is with us, Emmanuel, come hell or high water, and that God has anointed us to bring that good news to the world. Continue reading
Keeping promises
I have no doubt that God was with me in that river, whose banks Jesus knew, whose rapids perhaps he had played in. I have no doubt that God would have stayed with me, whether I lived or died that day. But in order to remain alive, in that moment, I also needed my people, the little community of foreigners with whom I had set out that morning in a black tyre inner tube to float down the river towards the Sea of Galilee. Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, baptismal covenant, community, Isaiah 43:2
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Year B Epiphany 5: by all means
It is the second to last week of Sundays after Epiphany, and in the sermon series that we’ve been following, it is time for the fourth promise of our Baptismal Covenant: Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, … Continue reading
Year B Epiphany 4: love and knowledge
Despite the density of so much of his writing, Paul does have his poetic moments. “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up,” he proclaims to the Corinthians. In the intricacy of the argument about idols and eating, it would be … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 1:3, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, baptismal covenant, God, love, Mark 1:21-28, St Paul
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Year B Epiphany 3: repent and return
When I was a child, I was one of those daydreamers who could get lost in a world of my own. If I were reading a book, I might surface from it to find my mother standing in front of … Continue reading
Year B Epiphany 2: “the breaking of bread and in the prayers”
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked some about our Baptismal covenant, and as Epiphany continues, I want to dig a little deeper into those promises that we have made, and remade, and renewed. The first seems ideal for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Samuel 3:1-18, apostles, baptismal covenant, Breaking of the Bread, fellowship, John 1:43-51, the prayers
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The Baptism of Our Lord: profession and practice
Let this be quite clear to us: the killing of innocents anywhere is not a religious act, not by the definition shared by Christians, Muslims, Jews; not by anyone who understands religion as the pursuit of God, the seeking out … Continue reading
The Baptism of Our Lord
Today’s sermon began with yesterday’s story about Noah’s dove… Is this what Jesus meant, when he told his cousin John that he must be baptized to fulfill all righteousness: that he would have to go back to the beginning, when … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, baptismal covenant, dove, Jesus, sanctification, Tertullian
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All Saints
The letter to the Ephesians makes a perfect sermon all by itself for All Saints and a day of baptism. I hardly feel as though I need say more. But there is more. Listen to the words that come just … Continue reading
Christ the King Sunday
When Israel first asked for a king, they went to the prophet Samuel and said, “give us a king to govern us like all the other nations have,” and Samuel was angry and had words with God, and God said, … Continue reading
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Tagged baptismal covenant, Christ the King, Israel, John 18:33-37, kings, Pilate, Revelation 1, Samuel
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