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Sermon - Calov Conference Sermon 2026 - Psalm 91

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Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grunewald, 1512 Trust in the Lord and Look upon the Savior God delivers us through the blood of Jesus Christ He ordains the angels to lift us up He intentionally directs us to walk in danger for the sake of our faith After Absalom killed Amnon he fled. Joab directed a theatrical scene between David and a pretend widow, in order to convince David to welcome Absalom back to Jerusalem. In this dramatic scene, the actress recites a powerful line: “ We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and He devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast. ” What a rich illustration she uses of water spilled on the ground. Two other times in the book of Samuel water is poured on the ground. Once when Samuel is judge, after the ark has returned to Jerusalem, he pours water upon the ground as a sign of repentance. A second time David pours the water on the ground when his m...
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Sermon - Easter 2, Year C, 2025 - John 20:19-31

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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas,  Caravaggio, 1601 Faith in that which cannot be seen After seeing flesh and blood, Thomas declares faith in Jesus’ unseen divinity We have not seen Christ nor His divinity, and yet declare our belief that Jesus is our Lord and God We receive this faith in the unseen through Jesus’ word of life In turn we boldly confess the faith, even at the ridicule of the world Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! As the idiom goes: seeing is believing. It’s a rule we often live by, skeptics we are, that we don’t believe something unless we see it. Nowadays with the rise of so-called Artificial Intelligence image, video, and audio generation, we’re skeptical of pretty much everything unless we see it in person. Considering our world is not unlike Crete, where we could say: “All Americans are liars,” it’s no wonder we’re so frequently skeptical. We are usually like St. Thomas who needs to see something before he believes it. “ Now Thomas, one of...
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