"wisdom" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)
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,…
God Is An Awesome God: Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday: May 30, 2021 Year B: Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 CLICK HERE for links to video recordings of our services on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are now beginning to return to our church building and see one another in person. We come here today seeking peace and comfort from a world that is fraught with division and conflict. Will we find that here today? And will we offer peace and comfort to a…
Renewed By The Spirit: Day of Pentecost
Day of Pentecost May 23, 2021 Year B: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alleluia! Christ is risen. I know it’s not Easter today, but what better day to make this proclamation than the day we are able once again regather in our church building. Certainly, the last year-and-a-half has been very difficult. COVID-19 swept through the world, through our nation, through our community and impacted us in dramatic ways. The nation was, and to…
Go And Bear Fruit: Easter 6
Easter 6: May 9, 2021 Year B: Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day where we are encouraged to obey at least half of the Fifth Commandment, “Honor thy father and mother.” There are mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, even great-great-grandmothers, stepmothers, godmothers, mothers-in-law, aunts, big sisters, mentors, role models, and all…
Transformed by Grace: Easter 5
Easter 5: May 2, 2021 Year B: Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 22:24-30; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Spiritual Communion service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This image that we hear of God, as “God’s vineyard”, is a very old one, going back to the Jewish psalms, as well as other places in the Old Testament. Listen to part of Psalm 80: “You brought a vine out of Egypt; you…
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…
Behold Our God – Good Friday
Good Friday: April 2, 2021 Year B: Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 10:16-25; John 18:1-19, 42 No video available. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Good Friday comes every year with its unique burden of grief. We know the story, we have heard it, felt it, wept over it. But every year it comes to us with renewed regret and sorrow, even though, we know the story does not remain in tragedy but emerges in triumph. Yet the pain of it never diminishes.…
What Wondrous Love Is This? Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday: April 1, 2021 Year B: Exodus 12:1-14; Psalm 116:1, 10:-17; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b:-35 No video available. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them fully,” or, as we’re used to hearing, “he loved them to the end.” Though this verse isn’t quoted as often as John 3:16, it conveys the heart of the Gospel—the Good News of God’s unconditional love for humankind. This night begins the three high…