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Salivating for Saul—8th Sunday after Trinity

7/26/2015

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Readings: 1 Samuel 8:1-10, 19-22; 12:1-25; 13:1-14; Acts 13:21-22; Luke 1:31b-33

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

Change was afoot. A king. The time of the judges was over. The people had been agitating for a king for a while. Since the time of Gideon, also known as Jerubaal (1 Sam. 12:11; Jdg. 9:1-6), when they crowned his son as king. They had wanted a king. But the problem was that this was a nation called into existence by the Lord. It only existed because of the Lord. It only continued as long as the Lord’s name was upon it. Their ancestor Abraham had a barren wife, Sarah. She birthed their father, Isaac, miraculously at 90 years of age, because the Lord promised it. They were the result of a continuous string of miracles. Just as the Church today is. Kings and governments have constantly tried to stamp out this Christian church for the last 2000 years. Yet, miraculously, when it seems the Church is dead, the Lord raises it from the dead. He causes it to spread. To increase. To pour forth renewing this world. Persecution can’t destroy it. Persecution can’t stamp it out. No, far more dangerous than the world to Christ’s Church is Her own faithlessness and apathy toward Her King.


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Bad Fruit—8th Sunday after Trinity

8/10/2014

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Readings: Jeremiah 23:16-29; Acts 20:27-38; Matthew 7:15-23

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

When God the Father created man in perfection and He placed him in the garden paradise you Biblically astute types might remember there were two trees in the Garden. A tree of life whose fruit gave eternal life. And a tree of the knowledge of good and evil whose fruit gave the knowledge of evil to those who already knew perfect good. The problem with knowing about evil is it steals your innocence. It makes you less than were before. It breaks something you can not get back. The only good thing that comes from knowing about evil is a resolve to protect others from that evil, to heal those broken by it. Thus giving life to them where there was death and darkness. But while you may realize that the evil you’ve come to know is wrong, you find yourself strangely attracted to it. For that is how you came to know about it in first place, by doing it. And you find yourself doing again and again.


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Standing on Level Ground---8th Sunday after Trinity

7/29/2012

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Jeremiah 23:16-29
Psalm 26
Acts 20:27-38
Matthew 7:15-23

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  
Brick layers and builders know how important level ground is. The cracks running through the walls and ceilings of our Lutheran Church–Canada, Central District office in Regina show how important level ground is, and how damaging shifting ground can be.  Standing on a floor which is not level not only makes you feel off-kilter, it can cause you to stumble and fall.  It is dangerous to not be level.  At some point gravity and time will cause your structure to crack, fall apart, crash down around you, and possibly kill you.  

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