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About those Comfy Wrangler Genes...Sermon Preached by Rev. David Casson at Dexter Joint Presbytery Meeting

Remind them of this, and warn them before God
that they are to avoid wrangling over words.

Do you wrangle?
A few weeks back, I came close to taking our event design team up on their kind offer to let me wiggle out of preaching on this particular passage. Anything you like, they told me, and I thought, well good, anything but this. But then one of those weird things happened. I found I couldnt get this word wrangle out of my head. This English word that our NRSV editors chose to translate the Greek verb logo-macheo. The more I said wrangle, the funnier it sounded to me. Wrangle, wrangle. You know, yesterday I believe I might have wrangled.
Ive learned over my years of preaching that sometimes those funny things that catch my attention for odd reasonsthose bumps in the text as the old Rabbis call themare really God grabbing my attention, sometimes even giving me a sermon. Well see.

Presbytery of Santa Fe Mission Statement

The presbytery of Santa Fe celebrates the good news of Jesus Christ and seeks to glorify and enjoy God and the myriad expressions of God's grace in its every assembly, deliberation, and action.
The Mission of The Presbytery of Santa Fe is to:
*Witness to renewed visions of Christ's Church at work in the world,
seeking guidance from the Holy Spirit;
*Nurture pastors and those with whom they serve in congregations
and other diversified ministries;
*Serve as steward of the gifts we have been given by encouraging
congregations in mission and ministry.

In so doing, the presbytery will labor to:
*Revitalize the worship of God;
*Develop new visions of ministry;
*Forge new relationships between and among churches;
*Encourage and aid the local churches and their mission partners;
*Address the needs of women and men of all ages and conditions;
*Celebrate our unique environmental, economic, cultural and theological diversity;
*Actively pursue success in new mission challenges;
*Cooperate with our ecumenical partners in ministry; and,
*Promote the work and mission of the Synod of the Southwest and the Presbyterian Church (USA).