Sermons by Rev. Paul Baudhuin (Page 2)

Empire Always Strikes Back

This Sunday we will be taking a big turn of the page out of the Book of Genesis and into the Book of Exodus. Stuff’s about to really heat up. Which is a serous understatement! This week we will looking at a portion of the story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt. The story is too big and too multifaceted to ever be covered all at once, so we will be taking a peak into it and how we still see elements…

The Way Out is Through

This Sunday we continue journeying through the story, taking less of a leap than we did last week. Last week we were introduced to Abram (later Abraham), and this week we jump to the story of his great-grandsons, most notably Joseph. It’s a long story, probably the longest in all of the Scriptures (depending on how you define it), and it is rich! So rich that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a famous Broadway musical based on it, and it follows…

Look to the Stars

We last week we left off with Adam and Eve having eaten of the “forbidden fruit”  and what that might mean in terms of the human condition. This week we’ll take a big leap, as we look at Abram (later known is Abraham) and his journey. It’s a long and complicated one, and it but we will be honing in on just a small, and I think very human, part of Abram’s story. It’s a big, scary out world there,…

To Judge or Not To Judge

We kick off our first season in the Narrative Lectionary, which is a lectionary out of Luther Seminary that works through the Bible narratively between September and June. So this Sunday we begin with one of the Creation narratives, and particularly that pesky piece of fruit Adam and Eve decided to partake of. This story is rich with meaning, and has endless possibilities as to what it could be about, but one thing is for sure: With a culture as…

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SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:45-53 (NRSVUE) 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses[c] of these things. 49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with…
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