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Browsing University Libraries by Subject "First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, DC"
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(2005-12-11)The audience addressed by the text is "the afflicted, the brokenhearted, the captives, the prison, and mourners. In short," as Will Willimon says, "your average December congregation." After playing with the idea that the ...
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(2006-02-05)Third of a five-part sermon series based on the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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(2006-01-29)Second of a five-part series based on the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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(2006-03-12)Jesus said, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" In this sermon I look at two men in particular--my father and the father of a classmate from Phillips Exeter Academy--in considering ...
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(2005-12-07)The Isaiah text begs Gd to “tear open the heavens” and come down. Because of his long absence we have all sinned and fallen away. The long absence of Jesus, likewise, makes us wonder if there’s anything to the idea of the ...
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(2006-01-01)In the Gospel of Matthew the birth of Jesus is a very small, very private affair. If you hadnâ t been paying attention you would have missed it. But someone was paying attantion: the wise men. Are there signs of Godâ s ...
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(2005-12-07)The parable of the Great Judgement, also known as “the Sheep and the Goats.” If we had known it was Jesus who was hungry, thirsty, naked, etc. we would have treated him differently, we would have baked a cake! Which is ...
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(2005-12-14)"I just had this funny thought about John the Baptist, the preacher of fire and brimstone, and how his message might have been different if he were Episcopalian instead (it's a joke, OK? I know John wasn't really Baptist). ...
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(2005-12-25)This day was also the 50th anniversary of the first service held in the beautiful sanctuary of First Baptist Church. I picked up on that scrap of verse in Luke about there being “no room in the inn” for Joseph and Mary ...
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(2005-11-29)The message of the book of Revelation is essentially this: "Keep the faith, even in times of persecution; those who endure to the end will be saved." Christians in America are not being persecuted, but has it eve been ...
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(2005-12-07)This is the story of the talents and the one-talent man who was "afraid," and hid the money in the ground. What would happen if a church lost its fear? What kind of things would it do?
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(2005-12-18)A sermon on the annunciation to Mary, beginning with the imagined conversation between God and Gabriel (kind of like that conversation between the angels at the beginning of "It's a Wonderful Life"). Mary's life would not ...
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(2006-02-26)Moses kept his face veiled in the latter days of his ministry, according to Paul, so that the people wouldn't see that his glory was fading. Jesus, on the other hand, kept himself "veiled in flesh," as the old Christmas ...
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(2006-03-05)This was not only the first Sunday in Lent, but also the church's 204th anniversary. I used it as an opportunity to help us think about who we are and where we are going by looking at each word in our church's name and ...
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