RoboPreacher

beneath this bold and brilliant sun A sermon on Paul's more excellent sermon on love We take it for granted that the goal of life is to MAKE something of ourselves . A person ought to GROW into their full potential. And one should develop all their capabilities , too. Shouldn’t they? You know the drill , be all you can be and all that.   But then again, the folks in Corinthian thought the same thing. And you know what? That belief was the source of a lot of problems . In fact, as far as St. Paul was concerned, it amounted to nothing more than a whole bunch of misguided religious folderol . Somewhere along the line, probably the world at large, the folks at First Lutheran in Corinthian got it into their heads that they needed to make something out of their newfound faith . All they really did, though , was undo everything the Holy Spirit had already done amongst them! And that’s our first point, brothers and sisters in Christ . Trying to make something out of yourself ma...

is to simply cease to be A sermon on 1 Corinthians 13 and life mid-pandemic One of the hardest things about life right now has to be how all of our usual ways of measuring a week have gone straight out the window! Planning things is nearby impossible anymore. Families have been especially hit hard. “ Will there be a zoom class today ? And if so, when ?”   Each day is up for grabs .   And even if you haven’t suddenly been thrust into the role of homeschool teacher, I bet your routine has been upended. The regularly scheduled program you used to evaluate the rest of your week against.   In the past, Friday was my day off. So the goal was to have the sermon more or less finished by Thursday . If it was more finished, I knew I was ahead . If it was less finished, I knew I was behind .   But either way, I had some thing to measure my progress against each week. But now, all that’s out of pocket!   Currently the goal i...