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• Let Me See–A Baccalaureate Sermon

  What follows is my Baccalaureate sermon delivered to Monmouth College’s graduating class on May 14th, 2016.  It is based on Mark 10: 46-52.   It’s funny, I find myself getting increasingly sentimental at graduation. Every year I am up on that Commencement platform crying over the cheesiest things. Like, tomorrow, you girls will walk across the […]

  Teri

  May 15, 2016

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  Art, baccalaureate, Bartimaeus, Class of 2016, Flannery O’Connor, I Once Was Blind but Now I See, Mark 10: 46-52, Monmouth College, preaching, Sermon, We have to see the world as it is before we can turn it into art

• When Worship Works

  Worship doesn’t always work. It doesn’t work when your student pianist can’t get through a whole hymn verse without stopping and starting three times. Or when the toddler, who accidentally bumps his head, drowns out your sermon’s climactic crescendo with his screams. Or when your congregation, who faithfully shows up Sunday morning after a long […]

  Teri

  May 20, 2015

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  baccalaureate, Baccalaureate Service, church, faith, Monmouth College, religion, spirituality, worship, worship service