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Strong Medicine

June 27, 2004

Dr. Brian Blount  Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary Address to the Covenant Network GA Luncheon June 27, 2004 The set up for my talk this morning begins in Caesarea Philippi with Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Messiah. I won’t read the texts because I’m certain that you remember these central narratives well. [...]

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Jesus Interprets the Scriptures

October 5, 2003

The Rev. L. William Countryman Good Shepherd Berkeley Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost October 5, 2003 Proper 22B: Gen. 2:18-24; Ps. 8/128; Heb. 2:9-18; Mark 10:2-9 The Rev. L. William Countryman, Sherman E. Johnson Professor in Biblical Studies at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (The Episcopal Seminary of the West), is a well-known biblical [...]

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What Makes You Cry?

November 2, 2001

2001 Covenant Conference Evening Worship, November 2, 2001  Sermon  What Makes You Cry?  Mark 9:38-50; Numbers 11:24-30 J. Oscar McCloud Associate Pastor, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church New York City It was a Thursday evening in April 32 years ago. My family and I lived in Atlanta, Georgia. My wife was entertaining her bridge club. Since [...]

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Knowing What’s Important

November 5, 2000

Knowing What’s Important Sermon for East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh 5 November 2000  Mark 12: 28-34; Lev. 19: 1-7, 13-21, 37  Pamela Byers Elder, Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, and Executive Director, Covenant Network of Presbyterians Our text this morning, the lectionary text being read in thousands of churches in many denominations today, is [...]

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