Jesus warns his disciples that it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than the rich - or anyone, really - to enter the Kingdom of God. How so?

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What gives you identity and purpose? Your wealth? Your family? Your children? Or your Lord?

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A short passage from Mark 10 speaks of divorce and children, but really it's about our lives of death and Christ's death to give us life.

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You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. But he does bless you.

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Sermon for the commissioning and installation of Deaconess Emilie Stoller-Prozenko at Ascension Lutheran Church, Montreal, Quebec.

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"From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things ought not to be so." (James 3:10)

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James warns Christians not to show partiality. After all, Jesus showed no partiality towards us and our sins.

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Christianity is not the smoothest path, the fastest path, or even the most direct. But it is the right path. So teaches the life of John the Baptist.

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When a baptism and a funeral coincide with the reading of Mark 7:1-13, how can one not talk about the power of baptism for life and in death?

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On Sunday, August 15 we remember Mary, the mother of our Lord, and how good ideas can get warped quickly over time. 

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