Sermons on Luke/Lucas (Page 7)

Sermons on Luke/Lucas (Page 7)

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Come Thou Long Expected Jesus: Community Advent Service

Community Advent Service 2021 YEAR C: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Advent sneaks up on us somehow, catching us with surprising speed, and we are often unaware and unprepared. It’s Advent already – wasn’t it just Thanksgiving. Isn’t Christmas in a few weeks? Surely, the season of Advent is countercultural because it isn’t the jolly season of Christmas, and I suspect most of us don’t think it is as filling for us as is Thanksgiving.…
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What Is Our Legacy? Easter 3

Easter 3: April 18, 2021 Year B: Acts 3:12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Some of us who are just a little older might ask ourselves “What legacy do you want to leave behind?” Sometimes that question is related to money. Sometimes it’s about the “imprint” so to speak that we leave on the life of people and institutions that…
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May We Also Say YES To God: Advent 4

The Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 20, 2020 Year B: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16; Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38; Canticle 15 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”[1] I can only imagine Mary’s distress, Mary’s fear when this young woman heard this from a stranger, “Greetings favored one, the Lord is with you.[2] She was “greatly distressed at…
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Glimmer of God: Easter 3

The Third Sunday of Easter: April 26, 2020 Year A: Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17, Acts 2:14a,36-41, Peter 1:17-23, Luke 24:13-35 CLICK HERE to view the video on YouTube. CLICK HERE to download the written sermon or read below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Homilist: The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe, Canon to the Ordinary My cellphone rang the other day. It was a number that I didn’t recognize, but my RoboCaller app didn’t flag it, so I answered. A woman’s voice, with a strong Alabama…
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The Rewards Of Faith: Feast of the Presentation

Feast of the Presentation: February 2, 2020 Year A, Fourth Sunday after Epiphany: Malachi 3:1-4, Psalm 84, Hebrews 2:14-18, Luke 2:22-40 CLICK HERE to listen to an audio recording of this sermon. Today, we celebrate a simple, humble yet very important event: Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem. It’s called the Feast of the Presentation. It’s an easy one to miss liturgically, coming as it does exactly forty days after Christmas Day. It’s one of those…
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When Does Jesus Come To Us? Christ The King Sunday

christ the king sunday: November 24, 2019 Year C, Proper 28: Jeremiah 23:1-6;  Canticle 4; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43 At the time of posting, there was no audio recording of this sermon. “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom”.[1] Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. A criminal understood, a criminal knew who Jesus was even when the soldiers and the high priests, and the Sadducees, and even some of the disciples, perhaps, did not. Today…