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This coming Sunday, July 26, 2009, I’m planning to preach on 2 Samuel 11.1-5. The working sermon title is: Peculiar Treasures: King David—When Good People Do Bad Things. The following week, August 2, 2009, I plan to preach on 2 Samuel 11.26-12.13a. The working sermon title is: Peculiar Treasures: The Prophet Nathan—How Christians Respond When Powerful People Do Bad Things.

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This coming Sunday, June 7,  2009 I’ll be preaching on a sermon on the practical implications of the Trinity. I’ve been reading John Wesley’s sermon on the subject (titled: “On the Trinity”) and I’m been happy to learn that he shared my view that it is very difficult to explain the Trinity without falling into heresy.

Wesley wrote:

One of the best tracts which that great man, Dean Swift, ever wrote, was his sermon upon the Trinity. Herein he shows, that all who have endeavoured to explain it at all, have utterly lost their way: have, above all others persons, hurt the cause, whey they intended to promote … I insist upon no explication at all.”

As you may have guessed from the above. I won’t be trying to explain the Trinity in any metaphorical or philosophical manner.

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Jenny and I are taking off this coming weekend. We’ll attend a conference for young (and younger) clergy on Friday and Saturday and then head to Council Grove to see my parents and attend worship at my home church. Rev. Jack Gregory of Independence First United Methodist will be filling the pulpit, ably assisted by Mike Mason in the 8:10 service and Carmen Winston in the 10:50 service. Jack will be preaching from John 9 with a sermon titled “I Am the Light of the World.”

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