James Howell's Weekly Preaching Notions
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
What can we say September 21? 15th after Pentecost
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Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 . I preached on this last go round; felt pretty good about it. Jeremiah, who’s never struck me as a joyful kind of ...
What can we say September 28? 16th after Pentecost
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Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 . My online study of the prophets of Israel featured the brilliant church fundraiser Allen Walworth – who fo...
What can we say October 5? 17th after Pentecost / World Communion
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Every year at this time, I recall Albert Outler’s great World Communion Sunday sermon, preached at Highland Park UMC in 1969: “This pa...
What can we say October 12? 18th after Pentecost
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Jeremiah 29:1-7 . I had one of those lightbulb moments when I read what Richard Hays wrote about the Epistles: we are “reading somebod...
What can we say October 19? 19th after Pentecost
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Jeremiah 31:27-34 provides a resounding echo of Jeremiah’s call, where God invited him into the labor of plucking up and breaking dow...
What can we say October 26? 20th after Pentecost/Reformation Sunday
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Joel 2:23-32 . I’ve never warmed up to Joel much – certainly not in the way Peter did in the first ever big important Christian sermon ...
What can we say November 2? All Saints
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Preparing for All Saints, I stumbled across a marvelous passage in Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Animal Dreams , which tells how the...
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