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Laura Martin
Contributing sermons since Jun 30, 2020
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Are You Confident To Serve?
Contributed on Jul 7, 2020
Luke 5:1-11 and Isaiah 6:1-8. What is the starting point for Christian service?
Today’s gospel reading is probably very familiar to you. If you attended Sunday school as a child, it is a Bible story that is popular to tell children. But familiarity can create blindness. In our familiarity with something, we can fail to see what is there. I enjoyed studying to prepare this ...read more
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Waiting
Contributed on Jul 7, 2020
The place of lament in the Christian life.
What exactly did you come to church this morning to hear? But don’t blame me for choosing this passage, as it was in the lectionary for today. Lamentations is 5 chapters long, and it is a song of sorrow, a lament, over the tragic fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Lamentations is appropriately located ...read more
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Freedom (Galatians)
Contributed on Jun 30, 2020
A walk through the book of Galatians. Are you living free – and not as a slave to the law or to sin?
I think freedom is one of the deepest longings of the human heart. Wars have been fought, songs have been sung, philosophies developed – all for the cause of freedom. So it should not surprise us that when Jesus entered into human history — some of his earliest public words in a synagogue came from ...read more