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then why do i keep counting A sermon on that time God's prophet was swallowed by a whale : This is one of those big passages. Isn’t it? And the thing about passages like this is that they sort of appear to be larger than life. Yes, we like them. The snag , though, is they don’t really seem to have much to say to us .   I get it, too. I do. God hasn’t told you or me to go to some foreign country and deliver a dispatch of doom . Most of us, unless we were in the Navy , know absolutely nothing about being caught in a storm at sea. And, for that matter, I can rest assured none of us have ever been swallowed by a whale ! Can’t I?On the whole, this passage is a lot of fun. However , it has little to do with our daily lives. Or does it? Truthfully, this passage is relatable. Why, I’d go so far as to say that it’s more than just relatable. No, this passage is about you . It’s about me. It’s about today . And if you don’t believe me, I’d simply remind you that the nave of our sanctua...

i hold out Romans Six sermon on Luther Luther’s story gets going when the one he’d been trying to live ended …   And it’s a story we all try and live out, the story of perfection . Luther tried to live this story out in the church . These days, though, we’re more likely to try and live it out as parents or spouses , in our careers or at the gym , on social-media or anywhere else we can measure progress…   It doesn’t matter where you try and live this story out, though, it always end in the same way; at a dead -end.   Which is how it went for Luther…   The thing, though , is God LOVES dead -end people! God took Luther’s dead-end, and made it into a new beginning . The beginning, not of Luther’s perfect life, but of Luther’s life lived in light of God’s perfect love! God’s love that get’s going , when we can’t ! And this was just as true for Luther, as it is for you , by the way!   If you’re at the end of your rope, ...