If You Can’t Stand the Heat…
September 7, 2025
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18 – Year C
Luke 14:25-33
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 15, 2023
1 Emilie Townes, “Luke 14: 25-33, Theological Perspective”, editors David L. Bartlett and
Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2
(Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian Publishing
Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 129 · Location 1716, Page 130 · Location 1723.
2 Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial
Healing. Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022. Kindle edition. Page 19 · Location 217.
3 Bernard Mokam, “Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83,” New York
Times, September 5, 2025. Accessed 09/06/2025:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/joseph-mcneil-dead.html.
It’s Like THIS y’all…
June 29, 2025
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 8 – Year C
Luke 9:51-62; 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
1 Shinoda, Mike. “Remember the Name.” Fort Minor’s “The Rising Tied” Album, track 2,
Warner Records, 2005.
2 Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. Basic Books, 2019. Kindle edition, Page 51,
Location 734 and Page 52, Location 745.
The Gate of Discipleship
May 25, 2025
6th Sunday of Easter
John 5:1-9
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
1 I Gordon, “The Meaning of the Gates of Jerusalem: Gates of Spiritual Progression,”
Nehemiah Chapter 3 Bible Study – Gates of Jerusalem, website: Jesus Plus Nothing, Accessed
05/24/2025: https://jesusplusnothing.com/series/post/nehem3
2 Francis J. Moloney, “John 5:1-18,” Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of John, edited by Daniel J.
Harrington, The Liturgical Press (Collegeville, MN: 1998), p. 166-173.
3 The Most Rev. Sean Rowe, “Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on Episcopal Migration
Ministries,” The Office of Public Affairs of The Episcopal Church, May 12, 2025. Accessed
05/24/2025: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/letter-from-presiding-bishop-
sean-rowe-on-episcopal-migration-ministries/
We Lack One Thing…
October 13, 2024
Church of the Servant
21st Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23, Year B
Mark 10:17-31
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
[1] Charles L. Campbell, “Mark 10:17-31 Homiletic Perspective,” Feasting on the Word: Year B, Volume 4: Season after Pentecost 2 (Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year B volume), editors: Bartlett, David L., and Taylor, Barbara Brown, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2009. Kindle edition. Page 412 · Location 5679.
[2] Kelly Niccolls, Rebecca Midles, Susan Enfield, “Decentering Whiteness from Our American Schools,” Getting Smart.com, Nov 11, 2021, accessed: 10/12/2024, https://www.gettingsmart.com/2021/11/11/decentering-whiteness-from-our-american-schools/
[3] Campbell, Page 413 · Location 5690.
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