Sermons are by Pastor Stephen Springer.  For questions  or comments, email him at pastor@doveofpeacetucson.org. All sermons are in PDF format.  You can download Adobe Acrobat reader free using the link below.  Cassette tapes of sermons can be mailed to you from our office.  For more information: office@doveofpeacetucson.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 Galatians 5:1, 13-25.  "Works are the things that we do to escape from freedom.  To escape from the anxiety of God’s presence. There are noble works. And there are shameful works. But they are still works, preoccupied with our selves, our egos, and our self-justification."
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SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 Luke 8:26-39.  "We see a metaphor for our own paths to healing, especially for the one fourth of us who have suffered from mental illness in the last year."
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2009  An occasional sermon preached in response to the actions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly.  "I have come to believe that what you most need to hear from me this morning is some frank talk about what kind of a church we are."
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009  1 Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14.  "The Old Testament kind of wisdom usually comes through age and experience. And our culture disdains age and experience. One of the ways I can gauge our culture’s shallowness is that not only do we fail to speak of wisdom. We fail to speak of its opposite, which is folly."
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     READ the related scriptures: 1 Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009  John 6:35, 41-51.  "So Jesus compared himself to bread. Not to meat. Not to fruit. Not to cheese. Not to eggs. But bread. The common component– and the filling component– of the diet for so many human beings. Common, yet nourishing. Common, yet really a miracle, for anyone who has ever made bread themselves."
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     READ the related scriptures: John 6:35, 41-51

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009  2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a.  The prophet Nathan confronts David about his wrongdoing.  This story gives us an opportunity to examine the Lutheran concept of the Law.  "The chief function or power of the law is to make original sin manifest and show man to what utter depths his nature has fallen and how corrupt it has become. So the law must tell him that he neither has nor cares for God or that he worships strange gods — something that he would not have believed before without a knowledge of the law. Thus he is terror-stricken and humbled..."  [Luther, The Smalcald Articles]
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     READ the related scripures, 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a and Psalm 51:1-12