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  • Sermon Starters (Easter 7A)(2023)

    by Doug Bratt
    Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country’s Stephen Kumalo is a humble and devout pastor in a rural South African community. He tells a friend about the fate of a young woman who’d grown up in their village but basically disappeared after moving to Johannesburg. The friend responds, “I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I’ve come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering (italics added).”
  • Exegesis (1 Peter 4:12-16)

    by Richard Donovan
  • Easter 7A (2023)

    by John Frederick
  • Easter 7A (2020)

    by Ryan Hansen
  • Easter 7A (2023)

    by Phil Heinze
  • Easter 7A

    by Bill Loader

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Resources from 2017 to 2019

  • God's Care for the Grieving

    by Anne H. K. Apple
  • Easter 7A (2017)

    by Jeannine Brown
  • Easter 7A (2017)

    by Phil Heinze
  • Easter 7A (2017)

    by Scott Hoezee
    Stories of the fairy tale variety begin with “Once upon a time . . .” and often end with “And they lived happily ever after.” Many times looking for a “happily ever after” ending for the history of the world seems too good to be true, too much to wish for. But as Frederick Buechner once pointed out, somewhere in the history of the universe there needs to be one fairy tale that will finally come true. We believe the gospel is just that story. Because in the end, the larger story we tell and into whose narrative we invite all others is a story that is too good not to be true...
  • Moral Injury: The Devil That Looks to Devour

    by Brian Powers
    In the earliest parts of my military training, I recall being taught that Memorial Day should not be confused with Veterans’ Day because it remembers those who have made “the ultimate sacrifice,” having died in the service of our country. Veterans’ Day, by contrast, celebrates those who have survived the conflicts and returned to civilian life. Trauma researchers might argue that this line is not as clear as it may seem. They note that experiences of extreme stress, particularly among those who have survived combat, can be described as encounters with death that establish a hold on the survivors and disrupt their abilities to envision and live out a positive future.
  • Worrying About Worrying

    by Michael Ruffin
  • Easter 7A (2017)

    by Layne Wallace

Resources from 2014 to 2016

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