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Learning Humility

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Sermon for Sunday, October 26, 2025 || Proper 25C || Luke 18:9-14

Our last couple of sermons have been about big topics, about how the life of faith compels us to confront injustice, violence, and falsehood. Today, I’m going to change gears and tell you a personal story. The story is about me embracing humility – not as a matter of course, but as a last resort. I’m sharing this story today for three reasons. First, the end of the Gospel reading about exalting and humbling one’s self got me thinking about true humility. Second, today is the two-year anniversary of the climactic moment of the story, so it seems like a good day to share it. And third, talking about mental health openly is the way to destigmatize it, especially for people like me, who think we can just muscle our way through mental health issues.

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God’s Divine “And”

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Sermon for Sunday, August 11, 2024 || Proper 14B || 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

I was worried Tuesday morning when I sat down to write this sermon that I would have forgotten how to do it, since I preached my last one all the way back on April 14th. Thankfully, my shower thoughts saved me as I reflected on the story of David and Absalom. And I realized that God was inviting me today to talk about the danger of binary thinking. So this morning let’s talk about the grace inherent in the fact that two things can be true at the same time.

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