Daniel Haas

Month: July 2011

  • Be strong

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    The commandment “Be strong and courageous” is given three times. Obviously it cannot be easily accepted. Here is my sermon on that one from January 2010.

  • from old to new

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    Why did Israel have to wander through the desert for forty years? The people complain and ask to return to Egypt, to which God responds with a word of judgment: a forty-year stay in the wilderness, time for the present generation to die out completely. Among the spies, only Caleb was faithful and will be…

  • Scapegoating

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    Everybody needs a scapegoat, right? Sometimes you just need someone to blame. Well God’s people have had a wonderful tradition to channel this desire into an annual event called Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): Once a year Aaron shall put both of his hands on a goat’s head and confess over it all the evils,…

  • Fellowship – A Topical Summer Sermon Podcast

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    Topic Fellowship 2011-07-17.m4a Listen on Posterous Welcome to the Topical Summer Sermon Series. At Provo Community United Church of Christ we are deviating from lectionary preaching this summer. Instead we are focusing on the topics that people are interested in. Our topic for July 17th 2011 is "fellowship".

  • The Gretchen Question

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    Religion is not about feelings or thoughts. It’s what you do with your faith. For some that means saying grace over a meal, reading their Bible or going to church. Some are CEO’s – Christmas & Easter Only People. But what about your eating habits, what about sacrifices, what about living up to God’s covenant?…