15 Sermons preached at Dorchester in 2011. These are the texts I preached on, with primary text for each sermon listed first on a line
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Hmmm, a check on text this week shows that there's only one sunday in a three-year cycle for which ecclesiastes is one of the lectionary readings. We Baptists tend to preach whatever passages sing to us, but most of the mainstream churches (roman catholic, episcopalian, lutheran, methodist, even ucc) stick fairly closely to the lectionary.
Interestingly the part most of us know (and can sing to a Byrds tune) is the RCL text for New Year's Day, but it's not normally a Sunday text. For everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn... ... wait, what do you mean there's no "turn" in the text?!
Still, I see quite a few ecclesiastes sermons on sermon central. So clearly someone has spent some time with it!
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Does anybody preach Ecclesiastes? Not very popular with parishioners, I imagine, but I've always liked it.
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Hmmm, a check on text this week shows that there's only one sunday in a three-year cycle for which ecclesiastes is one of the lectionary readings. We Baptists tend to preach whatever passages sing to us, but most of the mainstream churches (roman catholic, episcopalian, lutheran, methodist, even ucc) stick fairly closely to the lectionary.
Interestingly the part most of us know (and can sing to a Byrds tune) is the RCL text for New Year's Day, but it's not normally a Sunday text. For everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn... ... wait, what do you mean there's no "turn" in the text?!
Still, I see quite a few ecclesiastes sermons on sermon central. So clearly someone has spent some time with it!
What strikes you most about ecclesiastes?
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