Sermons on Mark/Marcos (Page 4)
Welcome For All People: Proper 11
Proper 11: July 18, 2021 The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a; Psalm 89:20-37; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We like to think we are great builders – indeed there are architectural wonders around the world – I recall visiting the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland and exploring beehive huts, which were not to store bees, but were homes shaped like a…
Live A Life Filled With Truth: Proper 10
Proper 10: July 11, 2021 The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In today’s scripture readings, actually more generally throughout the Bible – speaking truth to power, especially unjust power, is no laughing matter. It is deadly serious, and it can be downright dangerous. In today’s gospel we see what happens when a prophet…
Let Us Extend Liberty And Justice For All: Proper 9
Proper 9: July 4, 2021 The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What do you think about when someone mentions your hometown? Maybe it’s the sight of your mother’s overabundant garden or running through the backyard to get to your grandparents’ house. Maybe your hometown holds fond recollections of playing summer baseball or…
Live Without Fear: Proper 8
Proper 8: June 27, 2021 The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Living without fear and suffering. Is that possible in the world as we know it? Wars, hunger, violence, economic disasters abound and bring us to despair; personal illness, pain, and loss in our families cause us to lose hope. Sometimes we…
Facing the Storm: Proper 7
Proper 7: June 20, 2021 The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 1 Samuel 17:1a, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49; Psalm 9:9-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Every year I spend a week at the New Jersey shore; that would be the beach to most of you. For most of us the ocean conjures up delightful images. Some enjoy walks on the beach (that’s the sand…
Listen Closely; God’s Will Be Done: Proper 6
Proper 6: June 13, 2021 The Third Sunday After Pentecost Year B: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; Psalm 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17; Mark 4:26-34 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Listen to what Jesus tells us in our Gospel reading today: “The Kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow,…
Hope Renewed For Us All: Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday: March 28, 2021 Year B: Mark 11:1-11 (Liturgy of the Palms); Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Spiritual Communion service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ With so much going on in the world, some might think it seems silly to insist on giving so much time and energy to the religious observance of Holy Week. This is especially true when one considers that so…
Lent Helps Us Remember: Lent 2
The Second Sunday In Lent: February 28, 2021 Year B: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22:22-30; Romans 4:13-25; Mark 8:31-38 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Spiritual Communion service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Perhaps it’s a bit irreverent, but I have this mental picture of the disciples. It’s several years after Jesus’ death and resurrection. The disciples are together. They are talking about the good old days, reminiscing the way friends who have shared…
Listen For God’s Voice: Last Sunday After Epiphany
The Last sunday AFter Epiphany: February 14, 2021 Year B: 2 Kings 2:1-12; Psalm 50:1-6; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “And after six days Jesus takes Peter and James and John and privately leads them up alone to a high mountain.” That’s the first verse of today’s Gospel in A Translation: The New Testament by David Bentley Hart. It sounds…
Faith Leads To Wisdom: Epiphany 4
The Fourth sunday AFter Epiphany: January 31, 2021 Year B:Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 111; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In today’s Psalm we hear: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”[1] Over the years, I’ve have many discussion about exactly what the phrase, “the fear of the Lord” means. And it something important, surely, because it appears in…
A Word To The Church: Who Shall We Be? Epiphany 1
First Sunday After the Epiphany: January 10, 2021 Year B: Genesis 1:1-5; Psalm 29; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Spiritual Communion service and sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop on Facebook. Available service bulletins. Bishop Curry’s message can be viewed below: Before the Covid-19 caused us to cancel services inside our churches, the sermons were usually recorded at St. Andrew’s and uploaded by Kemp Miller, for whose ministry we are…
Let Life Be Shaped By Hope: Advent 2
The Second Sunday of Advent: December 6, 2020 Year B: Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13; 2 Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The perennial challenge during this time of year is to hear anew, to hear with fresh ears, to see with fresh eyes, the familiar stories we all know. We hear, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord”.[1] We know what…