Tag: John 17:1-11

What is Glory?

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Biblical Text: John 17:1-11

Glory is not something that we Lutherans talk about all that much. The Reformed talk about it much more while the world talks about it all the time. But that is the subject of Jesus’ prayer. Both in terms of the Father and Son glorifying each other, and in terms of the son glorifying his own and how they glorify him. So this sermon attempts to give a biblical framework for thinking about glory and contrasts it largely with the worldly conception of glory. And then it tries to hold out a way that we can live with this glory – a treasure in jars of clay. For any who know this sermon owes a debt to C.S. Lewis’ essay “The Weight of Glory” although it is not just a complete rip-off. His essay is longer and more complete. This sermon is more tightly focused.

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What is in a Name?

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Biblical Text: John 17:1-11
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Jesus summarizes his work in this text as manifesting the Name to the world. I couldn’t think about names without thinking about Juliet’s question “what is in a name”? That turns into a meditation on our human folly and God’s wisdom which are made manifest in our reactions to a name.

Note: the recording is an after the fact recording. We have an imp in our system. I’m starting to believe that it isn’t just an electronic imp, because the sermons that I tend to think are “portfolio material” are the ones that I re-record.

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