I am so honored to be standing before you today, this third Sunday in Lent. I was not expecting Bill’s invitation to preach at all, but during our weekly lectionary get-together, which includes pastors of several denominations, Bill asked me and I immediately accepted. So, here I am. And I am going to challenge myself by attempting to connect the dots between…
St. James' Episcopal Church – Mt. Airy, Maryland
Sermons on 2015 (Page 5)
The fortieth chapter of the book of Isaiah begins what is often called “Second Isaiah.” We call it that because the book of Isaiah seems to have been written in three parts, by at least three different people, at three different times in the history of the Jewish people. The three sections are marked by changes in message, changes in vocabulary, and…
This week’s sermon was delivered by the Rev. Tommy Rogers. Since August 2011, the Rev. Thomas S. Rogers III has been the Episcopal Chaplain to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His most recent parish responsibility was as the Associate Rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Frederick, Maryland.
The reading from First Corinthians is kind of disturbing, isn’t it? Paul seems convinced that the last judgment is coming soon, and he directs the followers of Jesus to live as if the only thing that matters is the present moment, and everything that is concerned with the future – weddings, funerals, hopefulness, and even grocery shopping, should be set aside to…
Today both our first lesson and our Gospel lesson are stories about being called – Samuel is called by God to prophesy to Eli, and Nathanael is called, first by Phillip and then by Jesus into discipleship. And calling may well be on many of our minds these days. This church is in the middle of a search for a new Rector,…
You know, if you were a member of the Orthodox Church, the twelve days of Christmas would have only just begun, and the feast of the Epiphany, which we celebrated on Tuesday, wouldn’t be here until January nineteenth. I only mention this because in the Orthodox churches, the gospel lesson you would hear read on Epiphany is not the story of the…
You have to feel a little sorry for poor Joseph. Nothing seems to be working out for him the way he planned. The woman he’d been betrothed to for a long time, perhaps since before either of them were even born, in the way things happened back then, is pregnant. Joseph knew he’s not the dad, and Joseph knew that his life…