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The proclamation, the hearing, and the receiving of God’s Word is a singular phenomenon—it happens once. Even if you give a sermon twice on a Sunday, each occasion is unique with an uncountable set of circumstances, parameters, chances and factors.
This is the most frustrating thing about a sermon: you only get one chance. You can go over the text endlessly before or, after the fact, you can watch the video of it again; listen to the audio one more time; or make notes how to improve—but you can never make a true change.
As an act of humility and transparency, as I grow in this new craft, I offer all these past sermons I have proclaimed. They are like little crystalized snapshots of my relationship with God and my own development as spiritual leader and minister of word and sacrament.
At the top of each sermon text there is a note about where it was delivered and there are also links to the selections from the bible, and sometimes other texts, I am preaching on.
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