Sermon Archive (Page 7)

A Sermon for the Eighth Day after Pentecost

Pentecost 8A/Proper 12 Genesis 29:15-28 Psalm 105:1-11, 45b Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52                                              Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. If you’re anything like me then your…

A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.   After these things… So begins our reading from Genesis today, a story that is both famous and infamous – compelling and horrifying:  the so-called “Binding of Isaac” or “The Command to Sacrifice Isaac.” [1] It is the culmination of…

A Sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 21, 2020

Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire.  Amen.   We are now settling into Ordinary Time – the long season after Pentecost.  It’s called ordinary not because it is typical – rather, it comes from the word “ordinal,” meaning “related to a series.”  From now until November…

A Sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter

Acts 1:6-14 Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 Today I want to focus on our reading from Acts which narrates Jesus’ ascension into heaven, 40 days after his resurrection. Ascension Day was last Thursday, 40 days after Easter, and as always on this 7th and last Sunday of Eastertide, we hear the story of Jesus’ final leave-taking from the…