Sermons

Forgiveness for Sale

Year B Exodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… We need to remember that our oldest sacred texts…  did not arise in a vacuum…  there were already other creation stories in the ancient Near East…  the Babylonian Enuma Elish …  which was discovered in 1849...

Sermon for Feb. 25

Our guest preacher today is the Rev. Canon Sunil Chandry from the Diocesan office, and we do not have a printed version of his sermon. However, you can view the sermon (and the entire service if you wish) at: www.facebook.com/hcealc/videos/6739433616157234 ; the sermon begins about 31 minutes into the video.

Put Is On a List

Year B Genesis 9:8-17 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… I make “to do” lists…  lots of them…  some of them I write out…  some of them I type out…  the hand-written ones are usually what I have to do on any particular day…  at least...

Five Times Each Day

Year B Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Our cat Simon…  a Siamese Tabby mix…  turns sixteen in little more than three months…  we got him in 2008…  during my second year of seminary…  I thought he’d be the cat who would sit on...

The Imitation Game

Year B 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… When my daughter was about four-years-old…  she had one of those orange and yellow…  foot-propelled…  Little Tikes toy cars…  she loved it…  because she was able to pretend to drive…  she was able to pretend...