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.)

season of creation

For God So Loved the World

Hope is a verb

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.)

season of creation

Welcome

Elizabeth I

wendell berry quote about earth

work for peace

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

Peter Provides the Key

August 27, 2023

Church of the Servant

13th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 16 - Year A
Matthew 16:13-20, Isaiah 51:1-6

Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon 
(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)

    who do you say I am

    peter-rock

matthew fulfilled prophecy

keys to kingdom

PETER is REAL

 

Sources:  

Church of the Servant

4th Sunday of Easter - Year A
John 14:1-14; Acts 7:55-60; 1 Peter 2:2-10; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16

Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon 
(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)

                          forgive-stones-stoning-of-stephen

                          the way the truth the life image

Trinity-diagram

               Three Colorful Figures Dance in a Shape of a Heart