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No matter how we are baptized, “there are repercussions for the rest of our lives. From our baptism day forward, we are marked as Christ’s own forever. Nothing can or ever will erase that basic...
C41: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
September 4, 2016
“I suppose it’s only natural to present the Christian faith as some sort of answer to our questions, a kind of primitive, but sometimes effective technique, to help you obtain whatever it is that you...
C31: The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
June 26, 2016
“Today we have an especially exciting, fasten your seatbelt kind of story from the Old Testament…Clearly something extremely important is going on and the writer doesn’t want any of us to nod off while he...
C38: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
August 14, 2016
“Fire, we follow a God who brings fire, the one who baptizes us with fire, the one who anoints us with tongues of fire, the one who refines our lives through fire, fire that consumes,...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
November 15, 2015
Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar, and President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In this week’s sermon from Mark 13:1-8 he notes that in Presbyterian planning materials the theme for...