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& i love you for who you are right now the best A sermon on that time we almost threw it away for papier-mâché “I’ve been blessed ,” he said.   I knew I heard him. But then again, I needed to double-check , just to be sure. For one thing, we, sadly, don’t speak this way anymore. Do we? For another, I let myself in, and he was napping . Perhaps I started him. Or maybe he was speaking in response to something in a dream .   But no, I had heard him right . Honestly, though, what he said was unexpected, given the circumstances . That’s why I let myself in. I don’t schedule visits. I just drop by. But typically , I knock first. Not this time, though. I let myself in because Bambi , Tim’s wife of nearly fifty years, had recently died .   The death was so fresh that the hospital bed Bambi had mostly been confined to for years was still sitting against the East side of the living room wall. And it wasn’t just that Bambi had recently died, either. It was that the Alzh...

ask for something more A sermon on the Golden Calf debacle : The truth is, we’re not so far removed from today’s scripture… The people in today’s scripture are waiting for Moses’ return . Eventually, their anxiety gets the better of them. In an attempt to settle their nerves , they concoct a little token God.   Which goes about as well as you’d expect. Despite knowing better, though, we still see the contours of our own lives in this story. Although , not in the way we expect. Like the people in today’s scripture, we are waiting , too . Aren’t we? We’re waiting for the return of that old abnormal . And like the people, we’ve grown weary and agitated . While we may not have made any literal golden calves, we have had the same impulse. In fact, if you read today’s passage closely , you can’t help but notice just how conflicted the people are, too . They really do seem sincere in their desire for worship. And Aaron’s efforts to keep the debacle on the up and up are genu...