Category: Pastor Stuff
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Born of God
Sermon on 1 John 4:7-21 – Born of God A revelation washed over me Friday. Not a new revelation, but a reminder from God. My grumpiness defined last week. Poor communication and my desire to achieve “Super-Pastor” status came to a vicious head when Alan asked me to lead communion at presbytery and gave me Read more
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I’m a Thomas Apologist
“…but wrestling and doubting will also make your faith more honest, more real, and it will open you up to deepening your relationship with God.” Read more
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“And I won the footrace!”
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The men race to the tomb, and “the Beloved Disciple” – again, the author of this gospel – made sure anyone who reads this gospel knows he arrived first. “The Beloved Disciple” and Peter both see the missing body – or rather do not see it – and then they believed Jesus’ body had disappeared…… Read more
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My Stupid Expectations
So I have this voice in the back of my head that won’t stop repeating itself over and over again. “It’s Easter; you’re sermon better be perfect!” This voice never shuts up; every week, it’s either criticizing me because the sermon got done late, is going to be too long or too short, it is Read more
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Communion and Feeding the Hungry
My family showed love through food. As my physique likely portrays, we showed love through rich, delicious, and absolutely terrible for you food. There was always a plate for another mouth at our table, and they would walk away full. Also, people have dreams about my grandma’s scalloped potatoes and bacon. Like I said, rich, Read more
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How I (Suddenly) Became Progressive
I have been trying to find where my outside church ministry in Fort Wayne and Indiana is leading me – that ministry you do because you are called to just a little bit more than just being a preacher, hospital visitor, and administrator – and I found myself attending a presbytery justice advocates group. As Read more
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A Difficult Sermon
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Note: When I preached on this passage, I realized I hadn’t preached on it since taking “Preaching” in seminary, and I almost quit seminary due to that course. I never titled this sermon, and I can’t think of a title while I post some previous sermons to the archive, so the title has more to Read more
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Loving Rapists and Terrorist
This week I attended a Boundaries and Ethics training, and I had a wonderful conversation with a couple of other young pastors about the message of the gospel. Later that night, I tweeted this: The ultimate message of the gospel is to radically and fully love rapists and terrorists. — Robert Brown (@RedShoePastor) October 18, Read more
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Silence in Tragedy and Atrocity
It is always a weird feeling when you can’t say anything when you are in a profession built about having answers and preaching the Word. But here we are. I’ve spent two days mourning the senseless violence that has once again ravaged our nation. I’ve cried over the devastation of the natural disasters that have Read more
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Jesus Loves You and I Love You
I simply need to put that out there. No matter who you are – your sexuality, your political party, your attitudes, your biases – Jesus loves you and I love you. I can’t contribute anything unique or helpful to the conversations that are happening around us, I don’t have the energy to add my voice Read more
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