Advocacy Depends on Hope
September 24, 2023
Church of the Servant
17th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 - Year A - Creation Liturgy Jonah 3:10-4:11; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)



Sources:
Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022), Kindle edition, 122.
David Orr, Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 115.
Don’t Quarrel. Do Good.
September 17, 2023
Church of the Servant
16th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 - Year A - Creation Liturgy Romans 14:1-12; Matthew 18:21-25 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)





Sources:
Season of Creation: A Celebration Guide for Episcopal Parishes 2023, the Rev. John Elliott Lein and the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas assemblers.
Wendell Berry,
Pope John Paul II Pastoral Letter
Increasing our Wheat-ness
July 23, 2023
Church of the Servant
8th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11 - Year A Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)



Sources:
- Jody Greenwood’s Notes from “Making Our Memory Stick”, Len Lecci, Phd, Osher Lifetime Learning Institute, March 2021.
Sowing God-Stories
July 16, 2023
Church of the Servant
7th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10 - Year A Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)




Sources:
- William Miller, The Gospel According to Sam: Animal Stories for the Soul, Seabury Books, (New York: 2005), p. xii.