Here’s my sermon for the Day of Pentecost. This sermon just spilled out of me when I sat down to write it. I guess I’ve had it building up inside for a while, just waiting for the opportunity to preach it. Continue reading »
Category Archives: Sermons
The Call and the Gift
When God calls one of us to serve, God always provides us with the gifts that we need to fulfill our callings. Read more by clicking the link, including the fact that I’m now and uncle! Continue reading »
Do You Love Me?
A sermon about discipleship and reconciliation, focusing on the story of Jesus and Simon Peter after the resurrection (and after breakfast). The question is this: what is Jesus healing you to do? Continue reading »
The Living Among the Dead
NOTE: DevotiONEighty is off this week. It will return next Monday, April 8th. (Sermon for Saturday, March 30, 2013 || The Easter Vigil || Year B || Luke 24:1-12) I doubt they slept much the last two nights, the women who rose early on the first day of the week to minister to their dead … Continue reading »
Racing to Meet Us
(Sermon for Sunday, March 10, 2013 || Lent 4C || Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32) After I finish this opening bit of the sermon, I’m going to ask for a show of hands, so please listen to see if you remember this illustration from your youth. You arrive at school one day – perhaps you are a … Continue reading »
With My Arms Spread Wide
(Sermon for Sunday, February 24, 2013 || Lent 2C || Luke 13:31-35) (Most sermons are better if you listen to them rather than read them. This one is especially so.) Imagine with me a letter written by Simon the Pharisee some years after the events described in this morning’s Gospel reading. Simon, a servant of … Continue reading »
Trouble in River City
(Sermon for Sunday, January 27, 2013 || Epiphany 3C || 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a) We got trouble. Right here in Corinth. With a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “pool.” Wait a sec. That’s the trouble in River City in The Music Man. Let me try again. We got trouble. Right … Continue reading »
You are my Beloved
(Sermon for Sunday, January 13, 2013 || Epiphany 1C || Luke 3:15-17, 21-22) Last Monday evening, I sat down to watch a very entertaining football game. Now, I know up here is Pats’ country, so many of you probably didn’t even realize the college football championship game was going on. But I grew up in … Continue reading »
Magnify the Lord
(Sermon for Sunday, December 23, 2012 || Advent 4C || Luke 1:39-55) When I was in college, I never had time to watch TV or play sports or go on wild spur-of-the-moment car trips. I was too busy singing. The University Choir rehearsed four times a week and sang every Sunday morning during the church … Continue reading »
A Most Ingenious Paradox
(Sermon for Sunday, December 2, 2012 || Advent 1C || Jeremiah 33:14-16) I’ve never been good at staying up until midnight on New Year’s Eve. I always seem to nod off at about 11:35, or in recent years, much earlier. There was one year back in my wild college days when I managed to keep … Continue reading »
