Sermons on Pentecost/Pentecostés (Page 8)
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…
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…
Be Ready For Jesus’s Return: Pentecost 23
Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost: November 8, 2020 Year A, Proper 27: Psalm 78:1-7; Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25; Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “The kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise”.[i] As I pondered this Gospel, I found myself laughing just a little…
Our Daily Decision: Pentecost 21
Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost: October 25, 2020 Year A, Proper 25: Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17; Deuteronomy 34:1-12; Thessalonians 2:1-8; Matthew 22:34-46 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Today’s Gospel is part of the series of debates that Jesus engages in with religious opponents in the Jerusalem temple during the last week of his life. For the last several weeks we have heard Jesus’ authority questioned, the…
Our Invitation To The Great Feast: Pentecost 19
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: October 11, 2020 Year A, Proper 23: Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23; Exodus 32:1-14, 7-9, 12-20; Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We often talk a lot about the differences in context and culture between first-century Palestine and 21st- – century America. There were different expectations around marriage back then, but some of the trappings were very much the same.…
Tragedy Is No Match For God’s Love: Pentecost 18
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: October 4, 2020 Year A, Psalm 19; Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20; Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Our young people led the readings today. Available service bulletins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This parable begins with a landowner who plants a vineyard, puts a fence around it, digs a winepress in it, builds a watchtower, entrusts that watchtower, that vineyard, that winepress to tenants, and departs…
Who Is Really In Charge? Pentecost 17
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: September 27, 2020 Year A, Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16; Exodus 17:1-7; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32 This service was outdoors at Shrine Mont, so there was no recording. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Authority is an age-old issue of power dynamics. There’s the authority that comes with power and dominance; there’s authority that comes with true leadership, authority that has come about because a leader cares about the people and causes they lead. Anyone who’s ever had a brother or sisters, or…
Embracing God’s Divine Economy: Pentecost 16
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: September 20, 2020 Year A, Proper 20: Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45; Exodus 16:2-15; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 20:1-16 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Our young people led the readings today. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Our gospel today begins with Jesus telling a parable. It’s fair to say that many of us struggle to understand the parables of Jesus, because somehow they just don’t seem to make sense. We need to…
Jesus Shows Us The Way: Pentecost 13
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: August 30, 2020 Year A, Proper 17: Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c; Exodus 3:1-15; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28 CLICK HERE to view the video recording of this Morning Prayer service and sermon on Facebook. Our young people led the readings today. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last week I indicated that the gospel lesson was sort of a prelude or introduction to this week’s gospel. Jesus had asked his disciples to reflect on who he is, what his significance is. “But…