I don’t always write sermons down, but when I do, I will post them on the blog, and you can quickly link to them from this page. There is a difference between a “sermon” and “preaching.” A sermon is like looking at a musical score, while preaching is like listening to the music. Preaching happens when the words of the sermon and the attention of the listener mingle. So, what you have here is half the raw material for the preaching moment. The other half is your interaction with it. Cheers, Adam.
P.S. Good sermons are context specific. However, the Interwebs do a good job of making context irrelevant. So, I may (regrettably) do a bit of editing here and there to make the sermons more Net-friendly.
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“It’s Love, in Point of Fact” (Sunday, May 30, 2010 || Trinity Sunday, Year C, RCL || Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15)
“The Last Prayer in the Bible” (Sunday, May 16, 2010 || Easter 7, Year C, RCL || Revelation 22:20)
“Revelation (The Good Parts Version)” (Sunday, May 9, 2010 || Easter 6, Year C, RCL || Revelation 21:10, 22—22:5)
“Hear my voice” (Sunday, April 25, 2010 || Easter 4, Year C, RCL || John 10:22-30)
“Faithful Thomas” (Sunday, April 11, 2010 || Easter 2, Year C, RCL || John 20:19-31)
“Stone Symphonies” (Sunday, March 28, 2010 || Palm Sunday, Year C, RCL || Luke 19:28-40)
“Broken” (Sunday, March 14, 2010 || Lent 4, Year C, RCL || 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:-13, 11b-32)
“The Word Happens” (February 28, 2010 || Lent 2, Year C, RCL || Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 )
“Letting down the nets” (February 7, 2010 || Epiphany 5, Year C, RCL || Luke 5:1-11)
“The garden and the wasteland” (January 3, 2010 || Christmas 2, RCL || Luke 2:41-52)
“Make believe” (November 15, 2009 || Proper 28, Year B, RCL || 1 Samuel 1:4-20; Hebrews 10:11-25)
“From arrogance to obedience” (October 18, 2009 || Proper 24, Year B, RCL || Mark 10:35-45)
“The circle and the line” (September 20, 2009 || Proper 20, Year B, RCL || Mark 9:30-37)
“Something stronger” (June 28, 2009 || Proper 8, Year B, RCL || Mark 5:21-43)
“Everyone’s heart” (May 24, 2009 || Easter 7, Year B, RCL || Acts 1:15-17, 21-26)
“The new version of me” (April 10, 2009 || Good Friday || John 19:31-42)
“Aaron’s story” (April 5, 2009 || Palm Sunday, Year B, RCL || Mark 11:1-11)
“The Sweet Six Billion” (March 22, 2009 || Lent 4, Year B, RCL || John 3:14-21)
“Horizons” (February 22, 2009 || Last Epiphany, Year B, RCL || Mark 9:2-9)
“The trapdoor in my gut” (February 8, 2009 || Epiphany 5, Year B, RCL || Isaiah 40:21-31)
“Nets and new creations” (January 25, 2009 || Epiphany 3, Year B, RCL || Mark 1:14-20)
“Run home, Jack” (January 4, 2009 || Christmas 2, RCL)
“The bedtime story” (December 24, 2008 || Christmas Eve, RCL || Luke 2:1-20)
“Of sandwiches and second comings” (November 30, 2008 || Advent 1, Year B, RCL)
“Rambling in the presence of God” (October 19, 2008 || Proper 24, Year A, RCL || Exodus 33:12-23)
“Emptying” (September 28, 2008 || Proper 21, Year A, RCL || Philippians 2:1-13)
“To be that follower” (August 31, 2008 ) || Proper 17, Year A, RCL || Matthew 16:21-28 )
“A living sacrifice” (August 24, 2008 || Proper 16, Year A, RCL || Romans 12:1-8 )
“Sally has six tangerines” (August 3, 2008 || Proper 13, Year A, RCL || Matthew 14:13-21)
“Laugh tracking” (June 15, 2008 || Proper 6, Year A, RCL || Genesis 18:1-15; 21:1-7)
Hi Adam+
Enjoyed your dissertation on “pericope” very much. Hope all is well with you (ankle recovered?). Like your sermons very much. Hope you had a good 4th of July.
I will be visiting Virginia September 16 & 17. It will not seem the same without the Class of 2008, but there are a lot of new SIM scholarship students this year so it will take two days to interview them all.
Cheers
Jerry+
Interesting analoby between the sermon and the preaching, but it’ s true. You certainly can’t judge a written sermon by those words alone. The preaching can take on a whole new life, can’t it?
Thanks,
Mark