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Showing posts with label Outcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outcasts. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Sermon Video: Abraham: A foreigner in a foreign land, Genesis 21:22-34

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The interactions between Abimelek and Abraham serve as a template for God's teaching on the respect and kindness God expects from his fo...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Sermon Video: The God of the downtrodden - Genesis 21:8-21

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After the birth of Isaac, both Sarah and Abraham fail to treat Hagar and Ishmael with kindness.  In fact, Sarah seems to hate them both, and...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

The foolishness of "stay in your lane"

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The slang phrase, "stay in your lane" has recently been invoked by the NRA to tell doctors that their opinion (in reality, bloody ...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Sermon Video: God's Misfits - 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

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The message of the Gospel, a message of redemption and hope, naturally appeals more to the downtrodden and the poor than to the powerful and...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Sermon Video: One sinner who repents - Luke 15:1-10

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We live in a world where a 99% success rate is considered to be extraordinary, unheard of in most cases.  When Jesus is challenged by the Je...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Undesirables

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I've been preaching through the Gospel of Luke as Jesus meets one person after another who was marginalized by their own culture (fisher...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Sermon Video: "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean." - Luke 5:12-14

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What would it be like to live in complete isolation, to be an oucast whom all consider to be cursed by God?  What hope would there be?  In t...