Can I Get a Witness? Sermon series: Proclaiming People Easter 6A 5/29/11 1 Peter 3:13-22   Grace and peace to you from God the Father, Son and Spirit.   It appears that the weather is being seasonally cooperative this unofficial beginning of summer weekend. At least it’s not cold out there. Summer is not my [...]

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It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Are Easter 5A Sermon Series – theme “Holy” 5/22/11 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14   Grace and peace to you from God our Father, and from the risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.   Have you ever been to a meeting or conference where you had to [...]

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How to be a Christian – Trusting God Easter 3A  5/8/11 1 Peter sermon series: God’s Own People – part 1   Text for today: Through [Jesus] you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. (1 [...]

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  What is it? Easter A  4/24/11 Matthew 28.1-10   Christ is risen, alleluia!   Any one here watch This Old House on PBS? I’m a big fan—I’ve watched it since the Bob Vila days, when the house and renovations he was doing were still like my old house. I cried the day old Bob [...]

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A Matter of Life and Death Lent 5 A  04/10/11 Eze 37:1-14,  John 11:1-45   Grace, peace, and life, be to you from God, our creator and heavenly father, and from the Christ of God, Jesus, who died for our sins and rose so that we may have that life abundantly.   It has been [...]

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Well, Well Lent 3A  03/27/11 John 4:5-42; Exodus 17:1-7   Grace and peace be to you in fountains of our heavenly Father’s love, and in the living water that is Jesus Christ, our savior.   When I was growing up, there was a book on the bookshelf in our summer cottage on Lake Winnipesaukee that [...]

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An I for an I Epiphany 7A  2/20/2011 Matthew 5:38-48 Grace and peace to you from Christ, our brother, and from God our heavenly Father. So, did you watch Jeopardy the other night? The two all-time, most winning-est Jeopardy brainiacs, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, played Jeopardy against a computer. True that. Not joking. The [...]

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Lose or Choose Epiphany 6A  2/13/11 Grace and peace to you from God our father and from Jesus, God’s Christ and our savior. It’s time to play “Let’s Make a Deal!” And here’s your host—Pastor Tom! “Goood morning, ladies and gentlemen, and those of you in the first row. And welcome to Let’s Make a [...]

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It Is What It Is Epiphany 5A 2/6/11 Matt 5:13-20 Grace and peace to you from God our father, and from the Son of God, Jesus. Slang is the verbal result of a sloppy, lazy, oft times risqué, but wildly popular,  reconstruction or bastardization of proper English, used by the uninformed and uncouth persons in [...]

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Walking With God Epiphany 4 A  1/30/11 Micah 6:1-8, 1Cor 1:26-31, Matt 5:1-12 Grace and peace to you from God, our father, and from God’s son and our brother, Jesus. It’s always good to start a sermon with a quote, or so I’m told. I don’t do that routinely, but once in a while a [...]

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