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Mark 5:21-43 Sermon Commentary

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Jesus was someone people wanted to touch and be touched by.  But in the case of Jesus, such touches were about far more than the people’s desire to make contact with somebody famous.  Jesus’ touch was said to have healing powers.  As we can see in this story, some had concluded that Jesus was a…

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Psalm 130 Sermon Commentary

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Psalm 130 is famous for its opening words, “out of the depths,” from which came the name by which this Psalm has been known for centuries, “De Profundis.”  It is one of the Psalms of Ascent that Jewish pilgrims allegedly sang as they made their way up to the Temple for one of their annual…

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2 Corinthians 8:7-15 Sermon Commentary

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Most ministers get uncomfortable where the subject of money is concerned.  So we make jokes about it, like the time I was at a church where the minister said “Do you believe in the hereafter?”  People applauded that they did so believe.  “Good,” the minister went on “because we’re here after a good offering!”  Ha…

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2 Samuel 1:1,17-27 Sermon Commentary

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This may, at first glance, seem like a rather odd passage to proclaim in the twenty-first century.  The entirety of 2 Samuel 1, after all, mentions the Lord only twice.  What’s more, David’s eulogy never mentions God. So if this were the only or last message I was ever going to proclaim, I wouldn’t choose…

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