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it's getting kind of tired A sermon from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “I do not want you to be uninformed,” wrote the apostle Paul.  “ You know that when you were pagans you were enticed and led astray …” Bernard Shaw described hell as being doomed to be unable to do anything other than what you want. Being your own personal tyrant, he called it… The Sunday before last, Amanda and I went to church at First Lutheran in Galesburg. It was nice; we got to worship together, the sanctuary was beautiful and everyone was welcoming and kind. Of course their worship wasn’t exactly like our’s. And their bulletin was laid out completely differently. At times in worship, I found myself a little confused… There I was, a church professional for heaven’s sake, totally lost ! On the way home. I couldn’t help but worry that liturgical worship was doomed to always be a maze for visitors, for seekers. That worship is too confusing , too odd … After all, the only reason I am ...

Sermon from John , 1 Corinthians , & MLK Day.   We are back in the "Green Season," but this time of the church year is devoted to all the different and various ways that God reveals God's love, God's will, God's justice.   Today we read from the Gospel of John about how Jesus first changed water to wine. This story is as famous as it is lovely. We've all heard it a time or two, in fact I have been blessed to hear this one at a really neat wedding here. And while this story has a lot to teach us, I also want to focus on St. Paul's writing in 1 Corinthians. We will get two other weeks of these readings, and I think it would be fun to do a sermon series. Seeing as how Monday will be Martin Luther King Day, though, the Gospel has some interesting things going on. The dynamic that I imagine our Brother Martin could have identified with was Jesus telling his mother "now is not the time." Not that brother Martin emulate...