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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...

look fine from here A sermon on passages from Jeremiah 36 & 31:31-34 : Falling as it does at the end of November , Christ the King is an interesting little festival to preach every four years. Having just wrapped up an election , the church has us celebrate a king !   To be a Christian, insists the church, is to follow someone else; Christ , our king. It’s a good sermon. One we all do well to hear. But I’ve come to realize a sermon like that would only leave you and me in the same old settlement. And today’s scripture is all about the new covenant! Which sounds pretty good right about now . Doesn’t it? New ? I don’t know about you, but all those not so helpful habits I’ve racked up since March are beginning to take their toll. And Lord knows after the gamut of a holiday season unlike any other we’re all about to face, new will be more welcome than ever come January. But, truly new is really hard. And the past never seems quite past . Does it? …A little while ago we heard a...

from exodus for exile   As we noted during earlier, we're moving through a lot of time, quickly.... Last week we had Exodus , or liberation. What happened between that story last week and the story of exile this week is that those people of God, after some years wandering in the wilderness did, finally, come into the promised land! Before the people came into the land, though, Moses stops them and gives a sermon . A sermon reminding the people who they are, and reminding them of the laws God gave them at that mountain. It is almost as if Moses is saying, it is important to pause before we get to the promise because should we ever forget God's commands, if we should forget who we are and where we came, from it will be all to easy for us to turn into the Egyptians ourselves... There's the tragedy of the story of exile; Something happened once God's people finally reached the promise... Have you ever heard that rhetorical question: What...