Lent: The Season of Listening
February 18, 2024
Church of the Servant
1st Sunday in Lent
Psalm 25:1-9; Mark 1:9-15
Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
Anderson, Luleen S. Under The Covers: Discovering the Crazy Quilt of Life, 2017. Kindle edition. Location 62.
Meeks, Catherine. A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI (2024), xii-xiii.
Plummer, Don. “Dr. Catherine Meeks: A Lifetime of Working for Racial Healing,” June 6, 2023. Diocese of Atlanta.https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/catherine-meeks-lifetime/ Accessed: Feb. 17, 2024.
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
Life, Here I am
February 26, 2023
Church of the Servant
1st Sunday in Lent - Year A Matthew 4:1-11; Genesis 2:15-16 & 3:1-7; Romans 5:18-19 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
h1) Howard Thurman, “The Critical Option“
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