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Touching the Light
Filed under: art, Faith, Life, Religion, Sermons, Spirituality, Theology Tagged: God, Gordon C. Stewart, Jesus, light, sermon, touching the light, YoutTube
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The strange man: Honest to God
Yesterday we published a sermon by Robert Hamerton-Kelly, whose thought had ben influenced by Rene Girard. Today we draw attention to another provocative thinker influenced by Girard. His name is...
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Pete Seeger to the rest of us
Pete Seeger sings a song that rallies the best in us to continue his work of changing the world. God’s countin’ on me; God’s countin’ on you!Filed under: art, Economics, Environment, Faith, Life,...
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Costly Grace
The previous week’s sermon at Shepherd of the Hill had addressed the question “What must I do to be saved?” with “You already are! God is not wrathful. God is loving. Now start to live into that gift....
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The Right and Left Hand of God
The Rev. Dr. Paul Louis LehmannTheologian-ethicist Paul Louis Lehmann (b.1906, d.1994) observed that the right hand of God is the left hand of the world. Paul Lehmann was a friend of Dietrich...
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Boundary Breaking God
Kosuke Koyama – RIPToday I am remembering with tearful thanksgiving Japanese theologian Kosuke (“Ko”) Koyama, who blessed me late in his life with friendship. Dr. Koyama, who was baptized during the...
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Verse – God?
Too many people ask Do you believe in God? I ask only Does God believe in you? - Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL, March 30, 2014Filed under: Faith, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, Writing Tagged: believe,...
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Do not forget! We ARE Nature – Nature Is Us
Text of sermon on sanity and madness visa a vis ourselves (homo sapiens) and the rest of nature preached at Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church in Chaska, MN. We need stories to keep us sane in a...
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Jesus and Economics
Filed under: America, Economics, Faith, Life, Politics, Religion, Sermons, Social Commentary, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized Tagged: economic system, God, Jesus, outraged, outrageous
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Jacob’s Dream: the Great Reversal
This sermon at Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church in Chaska, Minnesota focuses on what is commonly known as Jacob’s Ladder, Jacob’s dream of a ladder set up between heaven and earth, ending with...
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Blessed Mary
The CHOIR magnificently sang Bach’s LOUD complex “Magnificat!” The orchestra was small, but rang Out BRASS and DRUMS and ORGEL that Reverberated through the Hall. That GOD was GREAT there was no doubt,...
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A Poet’s Breathing Prayer
Breathing Prayers 8 syllables in, 8 out: Mysterious Divinity: Show us what we can know and do. We have left the path, lost our way: Forgive us, O God; set us straight. Loving God, you create, sustain:...
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Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
This sermon was preached the week following guest preacher Tabitha Isner’s sermon that began with her singing and asking, “Church. What’s it good for?” Please leave your story of terror and fascination...
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God wounded in Paris
Today’s news from Paris is chilling. Still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo attack, hostages are taken in a Kosher (Jewish) market in Paris. Fear of extremist Islamic terrorism spreads across France....
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Tribute to Marcus Borg (1942 – 2015)
Cover of Marcus Borg book Marcus Borg’s writing and teaching affected millions. Steve Shoemaker received an email of Marcus’s death yesterday from Barkley Thompson, who had quickly writtten the...
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God, Guns and Gravy
J.H. is an astute student of partisan politics. He wrote this response to yesterday’s post on the Confederate flag flying in northern Florida: Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, could not be nominated for...
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When the Breath flies away
It takes only a moment to see oneself in the experience of Andy Catlett in Wendell Berry’s story, “Fly Away, Breath!” Our experience is of time flown away and flying away. Most of us, most of the time,...
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Speaking very clearly
I’m going to speak very clearly now Gordon, in the form of a single question. How in the name of God can you claim to be a Christian and a Democrat in the same breath? I don’t know the person who put...
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Being Human – nothing more, nothing less
The ISIL fundamentalist extremists who terrorized Paris, San Bernardino, Beirut, and elsewhere in the name of God believe in an eternal reward for sacrificing themselves for a holy cause. Though it may...
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Verse – The Exchange
INTRO: This piece uses the Hebrew terms for man (atham) and woman (athama), descriptions that remind Hebrew readers that human beings are of the dust, of the earth. The Exchange “Did God really say...
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