Sermon for the 10th Sunday After Pentecost Readings May I speak in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. On the evening of August 11, 2017, I was locked inside my church with 500 other people. As the interfaith service began to wind down, the worship leader suddenly walked to the back … Continue reading Risking the Way of Love
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Things Above
A Sermon for the 8th Sunday After Pentecost Readings Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, … Continue reading Things Above
I Will Never Again Pass Them By
Photo by Kamaji Ogino on Pexels.com A Sermon Given on the 6th Sunday After Pentecost In today’s collect we pray: …grant that we may know and understand what things we ought to do… Figuring out “what we ought to do” feels just as pressing as ever. I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that … Continue reading I Will Never Again Pass Them By
A Church of Valor
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
Leah Wise 