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Sermons from March 2008

March 30, 2008: “Preaching Peace”

A man told his grandson: “A terrible fight is going on inside me — a fight between two wolves. One is evil, and represents hate, anger, arrogance, intolerance, and superiority . The other is good, and represents joy, peace, love, tolerance, understanding, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, inside every other person too.” The…

March 23, 2008: “The Easter Metaphor of Spring”

There was once a Unitarian Universalist minister who decided to check on how much the 1st grade Sunday school class knew about Easter, so she asked them who new what Easter meant. One little girl raised her hand and asked if that was when you had the turkey dinner, and the minister replied that, no, that was Thanksgiving. A boy raised his…

March 16, 2008: “Was Jesus Too Liberal? Too Human? Too Divine?”

A Rare Book A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it.“Not Gutenberg?” Gasped the collector.“Yes, that was it!”“You idiot! You’ve thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold…

March 2, 2008: “A Liberal Look at the Bible”

Isaac Asimov, the renowned scientist, author, and humanist, has written a wonderful book called Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, an excellent resource for liberal thinkers. He describes a cartoon, showing a globe, blue, and green, poised in the middle of space. On the globe is portrayed a prominent tree, a bright red apple and around the trunk of this tree is…