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Alison Bucklin
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
Newest Sermons
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On The Cutting Edge
Contributed on Jul 28, 2025
The Holy Spirit, wielding the Word like a scalpel, cuts away our games and pretensions and rationalizations and shows us what we are really like. Jesus is the reason why the knowledge of our sinfulness does not lead us to despair.
My Dad was in the foreign service when I was a kid and my family was stationed in Argentina for a couple of years. We lived in a city called Rosario, about 4 hours north of Buenos Aires. The weather was fabulous, the schools were good, the streets were safe, and there was a club with an Olympic ...read more
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Re-Centralization
Contributed on Jul 28, 2025
It is only in Jesus Christ that we are reconciled to God, to each other, to creation, and to truth itself.
Paul wrote this letter to the church at Colossae because they were in danger of being turned into Gnostics. Now, we aren’t in danger of turning into Gnostics, are we? I mean, how many of you woke up this morning and said to yourself, “you know, this Gnosticism stuff - I think I’d really better look ...read more
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The Vision Thing
Contributed on Jul 28, 2025
Living for Jesus means seeing him as clearly as possible and longing to be as much like him as possible.
Peter was not big on writing letters. He certainly couldn’t hold a candle to Paul, whose pen never seemed to stop, sending letters all over Asia, explaining, encouraging, correcting. But of course being under house arrest made letter writing the best way to keep in touch with all the churches Paul ...read more
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Rocky Road
Contributed on Jul 28, 2025
The first step in our becoming ambassadors for Christ is to accept that the road of Christian discipleship is often a rocky one.
Ambassadors get VIP treatment: first class seats and free champagne, red carpets and limos, valet parking and 24-hour room service. Ambassadors get interviews with world leaders and press mavens. An ambassadorship is a class act, the apex of the diplomat’s career, the privileged crown on a lifetime ...read more
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Plain Brown Wrapper
Contributed on Jul 28, 2025
The death of our egos showcases the life of Christ.
Under the central dome of the great basilica of St. Marks in Venice is a treasure called the Pala d’Oro, a masterpiece of medieval goldsmithing, ten feet long and almost five feet tall. It has eighty enamel plaques on it, many looted from Constantinople after the 4th Crusade. They illustrate scenes ...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