Blessed are the Hope-bearers
November 5, 2023
Church of the Servant
All Saints Day (Transferred) Year A Matthew 5:1-12 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
- Meier, John P. 1990. “Matthew 5:3-12.” Interpretation 44 (3): 281-85. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lsdah&AN=ATLA0000827746&site=ehost-live.
- Cisar, Gerard M. 2022. “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church.” Calvin Theological Journal 57 (1): 43–74. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lsdah&AN=ATLAiE8N220614000055&site=ehost-live.
- Thurman, Howard. Deep is the Hunger. Harper & Row, (New York: 1951): 191-192.
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.
What are We to Do?
April 23, 2023
Church of the Servant
3rd Sunday of Easter - Year A Luke 24:13-35; Acts 2:14a, 36-41 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Permission to Question
December 11, 2022
Church of the Servant
3rd Sunday of Advent - Year A Matthew 11:2-11; Isaiah 35:1-10 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
[A] Bartlett, David L., and Taylor, Barbara Brown. Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 1: Advent through Transfiguration (Feasting on the Word: Year A volume). Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition, Matthew 11:2–11 > Location 2520 .
