Daniel Haas

Month: January 2012

  • Sermon podcast: The Baptism of Christ

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    “For to baptize the Negro and admit him into membership in the Christian church was to recognize him as a man, a child of God, an heir of Heaven, redeemed by the blood of Christ, a temple of the Holy Ghost, a standing type and representative of the Savior of the world, one who, according…

  • Mormons and Discrimination

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    This week a pew survey received a lot of buzz stating: U.S. Mormons feel discrimination, hope The results don’t really come as a surprise but what strikes me from a non-Mormon Utah perspective is that the results most likely could simply be turned around for Utah: “No Pew survey found that 46% of Utah non-Mormons…

  • Post-it Note Epiphany Sermon

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    Art Fry sang in his church choir. Fry was frustrated by the fact that, when he stood and opened his hymnal to sing, the paper bookmarks that he used in his hymnal to mark the songs on the program would slip out of sight or even onto the floor. In a moment of insight that…

  • A scary new year’s sermon podcast

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was executed by hanging at dawn on April 9, 1945, just two weeks before soldiers from the United States 90th and 97th Infantry Divisions liberated the concentration camp, three weeks before the Soviet capture…