Sermon Archive (Page 155)

Though we often think of Lent happening in the desert, maybe Lent is really an invitation to the bounty of God’s waters of healing. If we could translate the waters’ gurgling invitation into English, I think it would sound something like this: “Let the broken ones be healed, let the lost be found and fed, let the grace of God roll on, let the river rise and spread. Step…

It is, as you know, a part of my call to preach the story. That’s what pastors do. But you all proclaim the story too. You do it with words, you do it in the many ways, small and large that you care for one another. You do it in song. You do it in the ways you treat others, the stranger and friend. But today, we have the unique chance to see how language and…

And this is the day…the one day in the church year when the words that we hear ought to ring in our ears….not as a doomsday threat…but as a call to action! Paul writes to the church at Corinth and we heard his words tonight: “See, now is the acceptable time; see now is the day of salvation.”