Maundy Thursday, April 6, 2023 -- St. Alfred's, Palm Harbor, FL
Maundy Thursday Sermon -- 2023 At the opening of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he says > Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, 1 For Paul, everything he preached came down to "Christ crucified." That's more or less what I have to say tonight. Where I'm coming from When I reaffirmed my commitment to Christianity as a 20 something, I knew very little about the actual living out of being a Christian. I had read and meditated on a lot of things in college having to do with faith and spirituality generally. As my peers went off in a lot of different directions, things like: existentialism Hinduism agnosticism various sects and cults I decided that there was enough promising material in Christianity, stuff that seemed attractive to me: things like mysticism, a commitment to service to the most vulnerable, prayerful living in community, ... that I would commit my life to that until I couldn't g...