Sermons

Sun, Jul 21, 2019 St. Peter’s Great Falls Sun, Jul 21, 2019 St. Peter’s Great Falls Pentecost 6 The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Color: Green Assigned Readings (Proper 11 ) Track One Lesson 1: Amos 8:1-12 Psalm: 52 Track Two Lesson 1: Genesis 18:1-10a Psalm: 15 Lesson 2: Colossians 1:15-28 Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 Introduction My first instinct is to just say, “Hi. It’s been so long since I’ve seen you all.” October by my reckoning. I’ve heard some about you from others. You had a gathering here last month, I think, that I would have like to have attended. We were out of town and unable. Seriously, It’s good to see you. For both of us. Prophets in the church I want to pay attention today to Amos. We heard from him last week and we will again later in the church year. Amos the prophet . Partly what I want to do is to try to take the prophet’s message seriously. Kind of an introduction to interpreting the prophets. Secondly, it seems that Amos in particular is exceedingly relevant ...

Pentecost 5 07/14/2019 Homily: Chapel of Christ the King Charlotte, NC Introductory: Thank you for inviting me to be with you this morning and to celebrate the Eucharist. I’ve been an Episcopalian for a pretty long time, not quite my whole life. When I was still young, my mother would tell us kids what was great about the Episcopal church. One of the things she often mentioned was that a person could go anywhere in the country and go to church on a Sunday morning at the an Episcopal Church and it would all be pretty much the same. Partly it was the Book of Common Prayer that was the same everywhere. And partly it was the clergy. They were pretty much the same. Some of the most important things I know about life came from my mother. But that insight of hers is not one of them. I have found in my 37 years of ordained ministry that clergy are not all the same. In fact, one from another, they are wildly different. The same is true of congregations. I have discovered more about that ...