Learn Your Lessons Well

July 17, 2022

Church of the Servant

6th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11, Year C
Luke 10:38-42
Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon 
(The second link below includes both the Gospel reading and the Sermon.)

Not Mary or Martha

Sacred+Ground

time to learn

time to act

Discipleship

 

Sources:

James A. Wallace, Homiletical Perspective on Luke 10:38-42, ed. Bartlett, David L., and Taylor, Barbara Brown. Feasting on the Word: Year C, Volume 3: Pentecost and Season after Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16). Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition, Location 9122 & 9131.

Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III, Martha and Mary, and Jesus, The Gospel of Luke: New Cambridge Bible Commentary, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp 298-299.

Learn Your Lessons Well, Song by John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz

Unfinished

June 19, 2022

Church of the Servant

2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Proper 7 Yr C
Luke 8:26-39
Gospel & Sermon at Wade H. Chestnut Memorial Chapel, North Topsail, NC

healing of legion

GeneralOrders3_Juneteenth

juneteenth-freeish

Church of the Servant

Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-21, John 14:8-17, Genesis 11:1-9
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PERT Diagram

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Making Room for A New Language

People PERT

A Path to Understanding

language barrier PERT

Church of the Servant

7th Sunday of Easter
Psalm 97, John 17:20-26
Today's worship centered on the recent mass-shootings in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX which took the lives of 31 innocent men, women, and many, many, children. The liturgy began with the Burial Rite, followed by saying the name of each victim, and then affixing their image to our sanctuary windows. The audio recordings below include two voices - The Rev. John Sosnowski and The Rev. Jody Greenwood. Together they constitute the full sermon message. A link to a video of the entire worship service is at the bottom of this post.
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(The second link below includes both the Gospel reading and the Sermon.)

Gun Violence Victims2

                           Communal-Psalms-of-Lament

thoughts-and-prayers policy and change

Source: Amanda Gorman, Hymn for the Hurting, New York Times, May 27, 2022.

Thank you to fellow clergy for collaborating on our worship service this week: The Rev. John Sosnowski, The Rev. Jim Hanisian, The Rev. Fanny Belanger, and Deacon Rhonda Thomas.

Grieving the loss of 31 innocent lives at the hands of gun violence.