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The podcast can be found here.

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Boudreaux was sitting in the City Bar in Maurice, Louisiana, one Saturday night, and had several beers under his belt. After a while, he looked at the guy sitting next to him, and asked him, “Hey, you wanna hear a good Aggie joke, you?”

The big guy replied, “Let me tell you something. I’m an oil field roughneck, I weigh 270 pounds, and I don’t like Cajuns. My buddy here is a pro football player, weighs 300 pounds, and he doesn’t like Cajuns either. His friend on his other side is a professional wrestler, weighs 320 pounds, always has a chip on his shoulder, and he likes Cajuns even less than we do, and we are all three proud Aggies. Do you really want to tell us an Aggie joke?”

Boudreaux, all 150 pounds of Cajun attitude, told him, “Mais, I guess not. After all I don’t want have to explain it three times!” Continue reading “Sermon: Proper 25 RCL A – “Inspired by Love””

The podcast can be found here.

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A businesswoman was driving home from a convention in New Mexico when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.

As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride.

With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.

Resuming the journey, the businesswoman tried to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman, but the old lady just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail. Finally, she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to the businesswoman.

“What’s in the bag?” asked the Navajo woman.

The businesswoman looked down at the brown bag and said, “It’s a bottle of Scotch. I got it for my husband.”

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: “Good trade…” Continue reading “Sermon: Proper 24 RCL A – “Bad Trade””

The podcast can be found here.

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Image: The arrest of Thomas Cranmer

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On January 28, 1547 Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth Supreme Head died. And when he died, all hell broke loose. Continue reading “Sermon: Oxford Martyrs”

The podcast can be found here.  (I got the date wrong in the recording.  It is the sermon preached on Oct. 15.)

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We have all experienced times of forgetfulness. Take your glasses off, set them down, and a few minutes later you can’t remember where you left them.  Walk into a room and forget what you were doing.  Suddenly you can’t remember your oldest friends name. Things like that.  At other times, certain memories just seem to drop out.  For example, do you have a collection of keys, maybe in a jar or in a drawer, that you have no idea what they go to? And the frustrating bit is that you can’t throw them away, because as soon as you do, you’ll discover that it’s going to cost $150 to drill the lock on the safety deposit box.  Then there are phone numbers. I have this horrible habit of writing phone numbers down on post-it notes. Trouble is, I don’t put a name with them, so I sit staring at it trying to remember who it belongs to.  Forgetfulness is universal. It’s a bit like Neville Longbottom – in Harry Potter – getting a Remembrall from his Grams.  It’s a little glass ball that changes colors when you forget something. Neville’s changed color, but as he said, “I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten.”

Then there are times when something that happened years ago that you had completely forgotten, suddenly surfaces.  Sometimes the reason for your remembering makes sense, you smell a certain perfume and recognize it as the perfume your first girlfriend wore.  Other times the connection is not so linear: you see a commercial on TV for toilet paper and you suddenly think of the first time you were sent to the principal’s office. Continue reading “Sermon: Proper 23 RCL A – “Invitations””