Sermons

Always Being Made New

Year B Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… The Protestant Reformation is said to have begun when German monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses onto the door of the Wittenberg Church on October 31, 1517…  and the sound of that...

Seeing Fully

Year B Jeremiah 31:7-9 Psalm 126 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Do you remember in English class…  ever having to do an assignment called Compare and Contrast…  where you’d take two paragraphs…  or poems…  or novels…  and describe how they’re similar…  but also how...

The Greatest or Least

Year B Isaiah 53:4-12 Psalm 91:9-16 Hebrews 5:1-10 Mark 10:35-45 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Michael Hegeman…  who is the Preaching Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary…  wrote…  that scripture itself…  is God’s divine condescension to human language…  and human capacity…  to know more about the mysteries of God…  when we speak of...

Mending Relationships

Year B Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… By the time my father died four years ago…  my parents had been married for sixty-seven years…  and even though there was some dysfunction…  mostly around being taught how to name…  honor… ...

The Greatness Project

Year B Numbers 11:4-6,10-16,24-29 Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… When I was in the Air Force…  I served as a medical laboratory technician…  the training program for that job code was among the Air Force’s longest…  three months  studying chemistry…  serology…  bacteriology… ...