Month: February 2011
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To Be Holy: A Parable
The following is a narrative sermon which borrows heavily for Salman Rushdie’s new novel, “Luka and the Fire of Life.” An excellent novel, and I highly recommend it. (newsflash: it is much better than my edited version of it below!) Sermon Texts: Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 Matthew 5:38-48 There once was a young boy named Luka. …
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Seeing is Believing
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his…
Deeper in me than I 