Monthly Archives: August 2018

Sunday is Coming! “Keeping Your Hands Dirty” Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

“So the Pharisees and the scribes asked (Jesus), ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?” (Mark 7:5) “Then (Jesus) called the crowd again and said to them, ‘Listen to … Continue reading

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“This is difficult…to whom shall we go?” a sermon on John 6:56-69

5/26/2018 Sermon on John 6:56-69 “This is difficult… To whom shall we go?” St. Paul Lutheran Church Old Saybrook, CT Funeral sermon for Jaime Sarrantino Funeral sermon for Joan Rauenbuhler  

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“Sharing the Life of Jesus” a Bread of Life sermon from Camp Calumet John 6:51-60

8/18/2018 Sermon on John 6:51-60 “Sharing the Life of Jesus” Camp Calumet Freedom, NH

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“Out of the Depths We Cry” a funeral sermon for Jaime Sarrantino 8/25/2018

This is not a time for explanations. This is not a place for clichés. This is not a community of wishful thinkers. It is a time, place and a gathering to call a thing what it is – Jaime’s death … Continue reading

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“Sweetie” a funeral sermon for Joan Rauenbuhler 8/25/2018

There are not many people who I know who I would be able to summarize in one word. We are complex individuals with a multitude of relationships, hidden strengths, unexposed weaknesses, paradoxical beliefs and unexplainable fears. To even attempt to … Continue reading

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Sunday is coming! “Trusting an external Word” John 6:56-69

“Lord to who can we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68) Some of us may hear an echo in Peter’s question from our liturgical tradition that includes this verse in the “Alleluia” we sing as we … Continue reading

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Sunday is coming! “What if it’s true?” John 6:51-58

“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true true food and my blood is true drink.” (John 6:54-55) The promise sounds … Continue reading

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“No shoddy merchandise” a Bread of Life sermon on John 6:35-51

8/12/2018 John 6:31-51 “No shoddy merchandise” St. Paul Lutheran Church Old Saybrook, CT

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2 Bald Pastors / Season 3, Episode 3: John 6:35-51

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Sunday is Coming! “Approaching Jesus with our hunger and longing” John 6:35, 41-51

“They began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’” (John 6:41) ‘We are beggars, this is true.’ This statement is attributed to Martin Luther as his last words from his death … Continue reading

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