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The Wonder and Seriousness of Life (Exodus 20:19; Mark 14: 32-42)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Mar 13, 2022 | Sermon Text

You may not have ever noticed our first Scriptural text for the morning or ever contemplated its context. Moses has come down from the mountain bearing those fundamental instructions from God that we call the Ten Commandments. The Israelites have witnessed Moses in...

The Nature of Happiness (Philippians 4: 10-13)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Mar 6, 2022 | Sermon Text

In Larry McMurtry’s epic novel Lonesome Dove, two old Texas Rangers are riding to Austin to look for a cook, and one of them, Augustus McRae, veers off the trail to ride into a grove of live oaks, down by a beautiful creek. His partner, the no-nonsense Woodrow Call,...

What Books Don’t Tell You About Grief (2 Samuel 21: 10-14)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Feb 27, 2022 | Sermon Text

The text for the morning is complicated, and I do not have time to explicate it in its entirety. (I promise to do so during our ongoing Bible study in 2 Samuel.) Suffice it to say that King David thought it morally correct and politically expedient to hand over to the...

The Morning After Death (Luke 20: 27-40)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Feb 20, 2022 | Sermon Text

The Bustle in a House the Morning After DeathIs the solemnest of industries enacted upon Earth.The Sweeping up the Heart and putting Love awayWe shall not want to use again until Eternity. Those elegant words of Emily Dickinson contrast sharply with the stark,...

The Uneaten Holy Bread ( I Corinthians 11: 23-26)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Feb 6, 2022 | Sermon Text

Every century has its own great Christian prophets, and among the most notable and effective Christian spokesmen of the twentieth century was the Russian writer and political prisoner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who spent years in a Stalinist prison camp in Siberia. He...

Forgetting What Lies Behind (Philippians 3: 13-14)

by Dr. Richard Kremer | Jan 30, 2022 | Sermon Text

One fascinating aspect of Paul’s letters are his silences, what he leaves unspoken between the lines. We know, for example, that he loved the Philippian church; and they loved him. Yet even in this love letter to them there is that jarring phrase that says, “It is a...

The Wonder and Seriousness of Life (Exodus 20:19; Mark 14: 32-42)

The Nature of Happiness (Philippians 4: 10-13)

What Books Don’t Tell You About Grief (2 Samuel 21: 10-14)

The Morning After Death (Luke 20: 27-40)

The Uneaten Holy Bread ( I Corinthians 11: 23-26)

Forgetting What Lies Behind (Philippians 3: 13-14)

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