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The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

The Prophet Mary

John 12:1-8

5th Sunday in Lent - Year C

March 21, 2010

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor (TEC)

Today we are headed to a home in the Jerusalem suburb of Bethany, where Jesus stopped in to see his old friends Mary, Martha and Lazarus before he entered the city for the last time.  He loved them, John tells us, although he does not tell us why.  Maybe there is no "why" to love.  They called him Lord, so they knew who he was, and yet they were not his disciples, at least not in any formal sense.  They were his friends, the three people in whose presence he could be a man as well as a Messiah.

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The Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham

Which Comes First: Grace or Repentance?

Luke 15:11-32

4th Sunday of Lent - Year C

March 14, 2010

The Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham (PCUSA)

Perhaps no Scripture text has logged more pulpit time in our culture than this wonderful parable.  It is a storehouse of sin and redemption, of grace and the refusal of grace, and one can read it from several different perspectives--the father, the prodigal, the older brother. Over the years, preachers have tried all sorts of approaches to unpack its riches. I read once of one who gave a sixteen-week sermon series on the Prodigal Son; after the sixteenth sermon a woman greeted the pastor at the door of the church and said, "I'm so sorry that poor boy ever ran away from home."[1]

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Beyond What's Fair

The Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham (PCUSA)

The Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham explores one of life's eternal questions -- What did I do to deserve this? -- and finds grace and comfort in Christ.
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February 28, 2010

Always Another Climb

The Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham (PCUSA)

As we continue our journey through Lent, the Rev. Dr. Robert Dunham takes us up the mount of Transfiguration, and helps us deal with life's often arduous upward journey.
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February 21, 2010

The Wilderness Exam

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor (TEC)

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor guides us into the season of Lent by taking us into the wilderness, where Jesus Christ was tested by the devil.
Bishop H. Julian Gordy Transcript

February 14, 2010

Ordinary Holiness

Bishop H. Julian Gordy (ELCA)

ELCA Bishop Julian Gordy examines Luke's account of the Transfiguration from both a religious and a scientific point of view, and describes how both can exist together.
The Very Rev. Robert C. Wright Transcript

February 07, 2010

Why Some People Don't Catch Fish

The Very Rev. Robert Wright (TEC)

The Very Rev. Robert C. Wright takes a fresh look at Christ's call to the first disciples, and reveals why some Christians are not effective in serving and reaching others.
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January 31, 2010

Love Is for Grownups

The Very Rev. Robert Wright (TEC)

The Very Rev. Robert C. Wright mines the depths of 1 Corinthians 13, and shares how to love for Christ's sake in today's world.
The Rev. David Jones Transcript

January 24, 2010

Everything Depends on Remembering

The Rev. David Jones (UMC)

The Rev. Dr. David B. Jones on lessons from Nehemiah about the importance of recording and remembering the acts of God in our lives.
The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard Transcript

January 17, 2010

Finding Wild Space

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard (TEC)

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard draws from Jesus' first recorded miracle at the wedding at Cana to help us discover the wild space within us--and live into the radical calling of Christ.