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“Unbearable Words” A Sermon on Amos 7:7-15

July 16, 2018 by richardlfloyd

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“ . . . and in a supporting role!”
“A Chorus of Trees”
“A Cinderella Story”
“A Continual Course Correction”
“A Horizon of Hope“
“Active Waiting”
“Always? Yes, always!”
“Appearances Can Be Deceiving”
“Are you choking?”
“Be Still My Soul”
“Breathe on us, breath of God”
“Childlike not Childish”
“Did God Say?”
“Down with Chaos”
“Eating the Fruit of Lies”
“Expect the Unexpected”
“Faith and Fear”
“Finding the Perfect Church”
“First Things First”
“For Free”
“Generation to Generation”
“Glimpses of the Kingdom”
“God will not be left without witnesses”
“God's Good Pleasure”
“God's Righteousness and Ours”
“Good Questions”
“Good Trouble”
“Hard to Forgive”
“He Knew Where He Was Going”
“Her name was Grace”
“Hinge Time”
“Holy Weeping”
“Home Truths”
“How to be a Neighbor”
“I Am Making All Things New”
“I Have Seen Enough”
“Is Your God Too Small?”
“Just as I am”
“Just Like a Family”
“Life is not a game. It's a test”
“Like a Rock!”
“Living the Risen Life”
“Lost and Found”
“Lot of Follows but Few Friends”
“Making Our Day's Count”
“Mystic Sweet Communion”
“No Doubts? I Doubt it!”
“OMG: I Just Took God's Name in Vain!”
“On Our Side”
“Once we were strangers”
“Our eyes are on you”
“Our Four Freedoms Report Card”
“Our Storied Lives”
“Our Unholy Divisions”
“Out of the Mouths of Babes”
“Praying from the Depths”
“Prone to Wander”
“Rachel is Still Weeping”
“Rachel is Still Weeping”
“Real Freedom”
“Respecting the Mystery of God”
“Scorched by Holy Fire”
“Searching for Holy Ground”
“Searching for Holy Ground”
“Share”
“Signing up for the Loyalty Program”
“Signs of God's Reign”
“Silence is Golden”
“Sleeping through the sermon”
“Staying on the Trail”
“Taking the Long View”
“Thanksgiving”
“The Better Angels of our Nature”
“The church is not a building”
“The Comfortless Time”
“The Community that Mercy Makes”
“The False God SUCCESS”
“The Giver of Life”
“The God of the Far Off”
“The Great Laboratory of Love”
“The Ministry of Encouragement”
“The Oriole's Nest”
“The Peace the World Cannot Give”
“The Praise of the Spider”
“The Scandal of Forgiveness”
“The Seven Last Words of the Church”
“The Time of Trial”
“There is Nothing to be Afraid of”
“Throw Down Your Weapons!”
“Topsy-Turvy”
“Toward A Theology of Coffee Hour”
“Turning the World Upside Down”
“Unfinished Business”
“Waiting for a Vision”
“We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace”
“We'll join the everlasting song”
“We're Still Learning”
“What's Your New Normal?”
“You Won't Despise a Broken Heart”
“Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophesy”

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Theologians I Read

Lesslie Newbigin
Christoph Schwöbel
St. Anselm of Canterbury
Soren Kierkegaard
Rowan Williams
Robert Jenson
Richard Bauckham
Reinhold Niebuhr
P.T. Forsyth
N.T. Wright
Miroslav Volf
Max L. Stackhouse
Marva Dawn
Martin Luther
Karl Barth
Jurgen Moltmann
Jonathan Edwards
John Calvin
Hans W. Frei
George Hunsinger
Gabriel Fackre
Dorothy Sayers
Donald Bloesch
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Colin Gunton
Catherine Mowry LaCugna
Brevard Childs
Alan P.F. Sell
Fleming Rutledge
Katherine Sonderegger

Writers I Read

Adam Desnoyers
Anne Tyler
Annie Dillard
Anthony Trollope
Arnold Kenseth
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
David Lodge
Flannery O'Connor
Frederick Buechner
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
G.K. Chesterton
Gail Godwin
George Herbert
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Graham Greene
Gretchen Legler
Herman Melvillle
Jane Austen
John Donne
John Irving
John Updike
Marilynne Robinson
Mark Twain
Philip Roth
Richard Wilbur
Robert Frost
Robertson Davies
Saul Bellow
Thomas Merton
Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare

Great Escapes and Guilty Pleasures

Agatha Christie
Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Sayers
John Mortimer
Michael Connelly
P.D. James
Patrick O'Brian
Peter Robinson
George MacDonald Fraser

Music I Listen to

Bob Dylan
Bonnie Raitt
Chris Botti
Dave Mallett
Dexter Gordon
Diana Krall
Dire Straits
G.F. Handel
J.S. Bach
James Taylor
John Coltrane
Joni Mitchell
Lyle Lovett
Middle Fish Pond
Miles Davis
Nancy Griffith
Oscar Peterson
Roll and Tumble
Sting
Thaddeus Quince and the New Originals
The Blue Hornets
Townes Van Zandt
Van Morrison
W.A. Mozart
Willie Nelson

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