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Sucker Punch---16th Sunday after Trinity

9/15/2013

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1 Kings 17:17-24
Ephesians 3:13-21
Luke 7:11-17

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Have you lost heart? Death. Suffering. Wrong being done to you, especially by those who know better. All these cause us to lose heart. Huge disappointments. People who should know better acting in anger, pride, foolishness, ignorance or all above. It is a punch in the gut. Your stomach sinks. Your heart melts like wax. You lose heart. Your devotion withers. Your joy dies. It is replaced by weeping, anger, hurt, apathy and questions and fears you are too afraid to say out loud.

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Is Death Natural?---16th Sunday after Trinity

9/23/2012

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1 Kings 17:17-24
Ephesians 3:13-21
Luke 7:11-17

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

To comfort ourselves when people die we often say, “Death is a natural part of life.” But death is not natural. Which is to say, it is not what God intended. It is an aberration. It is unholy. Now, it is normal in this fallen, sinful world. So on some level we should be used to it, but it is not natural so it always catches us off guard. As Christians we should be prepared for it because we know about sin and its consequences. And moreover, we also know the Saviour from sin and death. But do not buy the line that death is part of the circle of life.

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Man Dies, Leaving Mother Destitute - 16th Sunday after Trinity

10/9/2011

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1 Kings 17:17-24
Ephesians 3:13-21
Luke 7:11-17

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Two historical accounts confront us today. The bare details of the stories are strikingly similar. A son, an only son of his mother, dies. A woman in great distress, not merely because of the death and natural sorrow that accompanies it, but because no one is left to take care of these widows in their old age. This death means destitution. Poverty. Bleak prospects. There is no hope left. Just the dingy greyness, emptiness of death, and the depression that follows for the survivors. All joie de vie is gone. Their purpose, hope, even their desire to get out of bed each day, gone. For these women their lives are over. They are alive but they have become the living dead, caught in hopelessness and despair without hope for the future.

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Sucker Punch---16th Sunday after Trinity

Is Death Natural?---16th Sunday after Trinity

Man Dies, Leaving Mother Destitute - 16th Sunday after Trinity

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