Sermons

A Duty to Rescue

Year C Deuteronomy 30:9-14 Psalm 25:1-9 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Good Samaritan laws…  offer legal protection to people who assist those who are…  or whom they believe to be…  injured…  ill…  or otherwise incapacitated…  and their purpose is to encourage people to help strangers in need…  without...

Sounding Out the Words

Year C Isaiah 66:10-14 Psalm 66:1-8 Galatians 6:7-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 May the words of my mouth O God…   speak your truth… One of the things my parents taught my brother and me…  was how to accept a gift graciously…  without feeling obligated to offer a different gift in return…  to even the score as it were…  and...

Our Lives Are Not Sound-Bites

Year C 1 Kings 19:15-16,19-21 Psalm 16 Galatians 5:1,13-25 Luke 9:51-62 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Today’s Epistle and Gospel are about freedom and commitment… Paul writes that Christ has set us free for freedom…  and that we’re to use our freedom to become slaves to one another… and that if we’re...

A Plate of Spaghetti

Year C Isaiah 65:1-9 Psalm 22:18-27 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… According to an article on the Bon Appetite website…  an “i” on the end of an Italian noun indicates that it’s plural…  while an “o” or an “a” indicates that it’s singular…  so fettucino is the word...

Baptized into Three-Fold Mystery

Year C Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… I like magicians…  I think the first magician I ever knew about was Harry Houdini… doing the seemingly impossible in his Water Torture Cell… for those of you who are too young to remember…  they locked...