Sermons on Pentecost/Pentecostés (Page 13)
Christ binds us together with love and healing: Pentecost 6
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 8, 2018 Year B, Proper 8: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 CLICK HERE to listen to the recorded sermon. If any of you have watched someone you love became sicker while medical help is ineffective or have been struck in traffic when trying to get someone to the emergency room, you have some idea of how Jairus felt in the Gospel we hear today. His twelve-year-old daughter was ill.…
Be not afraid—you’re not alone in the boat: Pentecost 5
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, June 24, 2018 Year B, Proper 8: 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 to listen to the recorded sermon. In Mark’s gospel today, Jesus asks the disciples: Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith? They’re in a great windstorm. The gospel writer uses the word “great”, and in this context, the word great comes from the Greek word, megalē, which is also the root…
Keep planting seeds and trust God for the harvest: Pentecost 4
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 17, 2018 Year B, Proper 6: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; Psalm 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6-17; Mark 4:26-34 CLICK HERE to listen to the recorded sermon. This week I had the opportunity to meet with a young woman who is applying for the diaconate in the Diocese of Virginia. To be a deacon is to be an ordained member of the clergy. For those of you who don’t know what a deacon is, Marty tells me that…
Crazy, the Lord! Pentecost 3
Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 10, 2018 Year B, Proper 5: 1 Samuel 8:4-1, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15); Psalm 138; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1; Mark 3:20-35 CLICK HERE to listen to the recorded sermon. Today’s passage from Mark’s gospel is chock full of homiletical images nuggets. Any one preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ today would have a variety of options in how they take this sermon. “A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand”. That certainly seems rather prescient in today’s world.…
Unique and inseparable: Trinity Sunday
First Sunday after Pentecost – Trinity Sunday, May 27, 2018 Year B, Trinity Sunday: Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; Psalm 138; John 3:1-17 CLICK HERE to listen to the recorded sermon. The First Sunday after Pentecost is a celebration of the Holy Trinity. It’s Trinity Sunday, the day we celebrate not a specific event in the life of the church, but we celebrate a doctrine, specifically, our understanding of the identity of God. Last week, we heard the good news…
Receive the spirit of adoption: Day of Pentecost
Day of Pentecost, May 20, 2018 Year B, Whitsunday: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 138; John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 CLICK HERE to listen to the recorded sermon. Text not available at time of posting. The sermons are recorded at St. Andrew’s and uploaded by Kemp Miller, for whose ministry we are all grateful. You can listen to this sermon by clicking the link above, but to access the library of audio files for recent sermons, CLICK HERE.