Title: United by the cross Text: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Date: Jan 23, 2011 Author: Meghan Florian Originally I’d planned to preach on our gospel text today, but after Tom’s comment last week I couldn’t help but take the bait and look more closely at 1 Corinthians 1. As Tom put it last week, in verses [...]

Title: Grace and peace Text: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 Date: January 16, 2011 Author: Thomas Lehman Today is the first of seven consecutive Sundays for which the Epistle comes from 1 Corinthians. Paul’s opening greeting appears in vv. 1 – 3. His prayer of thanksgiving is vv. 4 – 9, after which he rushes to reprimand [...]

Title: Words made flesh Texts: John 1:10-18 Date: Jan 2, 2011 Author: Isaac Villegas A few weeks ago my friend Chris was in town. We ended up spending a lot of time talking about life, about faith, about how we grew up. For both of us, American Christianity is embarrassing. For example, it’s embarrassing to [...]