Explore past sermons from Peace Lutheran Church. Read a summary, find the scripture references, and download the original sermon manuscript.
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Suspicion is a Poison
Suspicion is a poison. The movies we make up in our minds about what’s happening around us—about relationships, about motives, about intent—so often end up being traps. Perhaps John and the other disciples had a similar experience in today’s gospel. Not about the theft of personal property, but the theft of Jesus’ name and power….
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Framing Story 2
The new framing story Jesus brings to the world turns the empire’s assumptions upside down. The greatest is servant of all, and a little child becomes the emblem of a new way.
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Framing Story 1
So when Jesus chooses this place to ask his disciples the weighted question: WHO DO PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM? He’s doing so on soil that has witnessed a number of different FRAMING STORIES over the course of centuries. The new framing story Jesus heralds is an alternative to the Empire’s story, and, for that…
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Look at me!
A Maji man insists he is a human being; a Syrophoenician woman insists her claim on Jesus must not be ignored.
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Learning to See
Five moves the narrative makes in the story of the man born blind.
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Negotiating the Wilderness Together
NOTE: A VOICE RECORDING OF THIS MESSAGE CAN BE FOUND AT: http://www.peacelutheranseattle.org/?p=3056 Each day brings new measures on the part of government and health officials aimed at lessening the impact and spread of the coronavirus. And each day brings new challenges to each one of our lives as we grapple with shifting realities at work,…
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Finding Our Way through the Coronavirus
NOTE: A VOICE RECORDING OF THIS MESSAGE CAN BE FOUND AT: http://www.peacelutheranseattle.org/?p=3039 We are living through an extraordinary time right now as our region and the world grapple with the spreading coronavirus—COVID-19. It’s a time of high anxiety with many unknowns. Health department mandates prevent us from being together physically for worship, but we can…
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Inward Piety Goes Public
At the start of our Lenten journey our readings bring us face to face with the most basic, thorny issues of human experience. Each reading lifts up a mirror to us. The Lenten season is an invitation for us to go on a 40-day sojourn with Christ: ? to enter wilderness space with him by…
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Ashes
13.8 billion years ago all of the matter in the Universe—compacted into a ball of infinite density, gravity, and heat—suddenly burst its bonds and the universe exploded into being with a BIG BANG. Everything that exists traces its origins back to that singular moment. My dust was there, as was yours, and it’s all returning…
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High Exposure
Strange and wonderful things can happen on mountaintops. Each year the death toll on the world’s highest peaks ticks upward as novice climbers with plenty of money for guides temp fate by entering a realm they are ill prepared to deal with. Mountains are nothing to trifle with. Still, there’s nothing quite like being high…