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A Tire Iron Parable

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If you need a Good Samaritan story, here is R. Bruce McPherson’s “A Tire Iron Parable” One morning in early November I was driving north on the Dan Ryan Expressway toward the Loop in our relatively new car, alone with my thoughts and National Public Radio. Suddenly my...

Vulture or Hummingbird?

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This is an old parable but it always touches me and reminds me that we find in life what we are looking for. Two birds that fly over the California desert are the vulture and the hummingbird.  All the vulture can see is rotting meat because that is all it… To...

Second Coming

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               “Walker Percy captures this evasiveness in a chilling scene from his novel The Second Coming: ‘She spoke with the quietness of people after a storm which had drowned out their voices. What struck him was not sadness or remorse or pity but the wonder of...
Dry As Toast

Dry As Toast

| Story Sermon

Dry as Toast Story Lectionary 10 July 2016 The Story of Noah (Genesis 8) The Hand of Jeroboam is Shriveled and Powerless in the Face of the Lord’s Prophet (1 Kings 13:4-6) Elijah and the Dry Land of Ahab / Elijah’s Power Over Water (I Kings 17:1-16 and I Kings…...
You Have No Neighbor

You Have No Neighbor

| Master Sermons

You Have No Neighbor Lectionary 10 July 2016 8th Sunday After Pentecost Amos 7:7-17 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 Text to Life Everyone wants to think they are the “Good Samaritan.” Or at least they COULD BE the good Samaritan if an occasion arose that...