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Alison Bucklin
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
Newest Sermons
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A Long Campaign
Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
In God’s time we will see the results of what we have done, even if someone else completes the work, just as Timothy built on Paul’s foundation.
My own graduation from high school and departure to college is so long ago and far away that I can hardly remember it. On the other hand, I graduated from seminary almost 30 years later, and so it’s much closer. There’s a lot the two have in common: leaving behind the old familiar, and going off ...read more
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Back To The Basics
Contributed on Jul 16, 2025
Whether we are little ones or big kids, we belong to Jesus, too. We are weak, and he is strong.
When I first started seminary, I heard a rumor that shocked me. I heard that Christian ministry is a very competitive field, that churches and pastors compete with one another, and that within churches individuals compete for position and status. But after I thought it over, I realized that of ...read more
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Living In God
Contributed on Jul 14, 2025
Even the most noble and selfless kind of human love is inadequate to define God’s love. Because human love and divine love are different.
When I was a little girl going to Sunday School, and used to come home with questions, my mother was in kind of a dilemma. You see, she didn’t believe in God. She thought there was a lot of good stuff in the Bible, as long as you left God out of it. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto ...read more
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The Christmas Spirit
Contributed on Jul 14, 2025
How much of our activity at this season owes more to the Christmas spirit than to the spirit of Christ?
The eternally liberal town of Eugene, Oregon lost their cross a few years ago. It used to overlook the town from Skinner Butte, but after a heated battle it was replaced by an American flag. This year the diversity police focused on a new target. The Christmas tree in the Hult Center for the ...read more
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An Appropriate Reaction
Contributed on Jul 14, 2025
Our freedom comes with a price. We are no longer our own. And the only appropriate response is to do what God wants from us in return.
Hostages have been much in the news these days, for good reason. The most horrific fate is that of the Israelis kidnapped in October 2023. Many have died; some are still in captivity. Only a merciful God can heal the wounds of the ones released. May that same merciful God bring about the release of ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Displaced Women
Contributed on Nov 26, 2022
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A Letter To Jerusalem
Contributed on Aug 7, 2011
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The Inheritance Of The Church
Contributed on Jul 6, 2011
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Wilderness Temptations
Contributed on Jul 5, 2011
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Waiting For Jesus
Contributed on Jul 3, 2011
Newest Sermon Illustrations
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Encounters With Christ
Contributed on Oct 13, 2023
The great preacher Charles Spurgeon interprets part of Micah’s prophecy to refer to pre-New-Testament sightings of Jesus. He gives the examples of Abraham, Jacob, Joshua, and the three heroes of Babylonian Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Observe for a moment here, that each of these four great ...read more
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Chekhov's Advice
Contributed on Sep 6, 2023
The great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote to his younger brother in 1879 responding to a letter in which the brother had signed himself as “your insignificant and obscure little brother.” Chekhov’s answer to this false humility is classic. “Do you know,” Chekhov asked in reply, “before whom ...read more
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More Than The Pope
Contributed on Sep 6, 2023
There’s a joke about the Pope coming to visit New York. His entourage had ordered a stretch limo for him. As he approached, they held the rear door open for him, but the Pontiff said that it had always been an ambition of his to drive in New York himself. So he got into the front seat, and ...read more
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Popularity
Contributed on Sep 4, 2023
Great multitudes will follow as long as there is no price to be paid, no contract to sign, no commands to obey, no orders to follow, no sacrifices to surrender, no gifts to offer, no commitments to keep, no burdens to bear, no suffering to share, no hardship to handle, no effort to exert, no pills ...read more
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Rocks In The Road
Contributed on Sep 4, 2023
In 1996 staff members at Bridger Wilderness Area collected the following comment cards: · Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill. · Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spider webs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the areas of these pests. ...read more