Photo by Nikko Tan on Pexels.com A Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Here If you were to read the Bible as a self-help book, today’s passages would leave you with a laundry list of things to try achieve: This is perhaps most evident in the passage from Proverbs. While our translation identifies … Continue reading A Church of Valor
O Absalom, My Son
Photo by Ellie Burgin on Pexels.com A Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Readings Through the written word,and the spoken word,may we know your Living Word,Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. I have a confession to make: I have been avoiding King David the entire summer. Let me recap: My first week preaching, it was … Continue reading O Absalom, My Son
God’s Strange Abundance
Photo by Mariana Kurnyk on Pexels.com A Sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 2 Kings 4:42-44Psalm 145:10-19Ephesians 3:14-21John 6:1-21 The eyes of all wait upon you, O Lord,and you give them their food in due season. Amen. A priest friend recently said something about today’s Gospel reading that stuck with me: “Maybe for Christians … Continue reading God’s Strange Abundance
Call and Duty
Photo by Keira Burton on Pexels.com A Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19, Mark 6:14-29 Have you ever done something out of a sense of duty that you later regretted? Today, I want to talk about two choices that seemed right at the time, but actually defied God. One … Continue reading Call and Duty
A God Who Heals?
Photo by Aleksandr Burzinskij on Pexels.com A Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Reading: Mark 5:21-43 Additional readings here God did not make death,And he does not delight in the death of the living. You may be seated. --- In this world of death, what are we supposed to do with miracles? Today’s Gospel … Continue reading A God Who Heals?
The Days are Surely Coming
Photo by Oleg Magni on Pexels.com Sermon on Jeremiah 31 Fifth Sunday in Lent, Given March 21, 2021 Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Today’s reading from Jeremiah contains some of the most comforting language to be found in the Bible: “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be … Continue reading The Days are Surely Coming
Keep Awake: An Advent Sermon
This post was originally published on stylewise-blog.com on November 29, 2020 Photo by George Becker on Pexels.com A Sermon Given on the First Day of Advent Gospel Reading: Mark 13:24-37. Read here. “And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”Amen. Happy New Year! Today is the first day of Advent, which marks the … Continue reading Keep Awake: An Advent Sermon
Don’t You See I Have Work to Do?
Originally published on stylewise-blog.com on November 6, 2020. Photo by Micah Boerma on Pexels.com At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, ‘Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.’ He said to them, ‘Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and … Continue reading Don’t You See I Have Work to Do?
