RoboPreacher

now you know He’s something like a pipe bomb, ready to blow A sermon on that time Jeremiah's sermon was destroyed : Why is it, do you suppose, that at the time we should be most open , we are so often most closed off? It’s happened to us all . Hasn’t it? We all have times when we should have listened , but instead , we raised our voices. We all have times when we should have softened , but instead , we stiffened our spin. We all have times when we should have opened our hands, but instead , we balled them into fists . We all have times when we should kept an open mind, but instead , we were hardheaded . There’s no shortage of times and places when we did the basically exact wrong thing. Don’t we? We were closed off when we should have been open . We were stubborn when we should have been understanding. We were firm when we should have been tender . Why is that? Why are we most closed off when we should be most open ? And why do we tend to do this at the most inopportune...

now you know A sermon on the Ten Commandments Well, I’m up against it here. Aren’t I? I barely had your attention to begin with, and I’m losing it by the second with scripture like todays.   After all, you’ve all already heard this , haven’t you? “The Ten Commandments.” You’re familiar , thank you very much. You’ve seen the movie. You know the sweep, that no sooner does Moses go up the mountain, than the people start breaking the commands.   AND , you all already know that’s why Jesus came.   We’re Lutheran, after all. That’s our bag. Our deal isn’t keeping the commands, it’s Jesus forgiving us when we’ve failed to do so! What’s more, you’re sophisticated Lutherans . You know that once Jesus forgives us, we’re freed . And freed from sins power, we can live by the commandments. Not to try and prove our worth, but to serve our neighbor. We already know all this. As Jerry & Elaine once said, “Yada, yada, yada.” We get it. …W...