New Eyes Can Change Lives
May 1, 2022
Church of the Servant
3rd Sunday of Easter Acts 9:1-20; John 21:1-19; Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 30 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
Source: Bartlett, David L., and Bartlett, Barbara Brown. Feasting on the Word: Year C, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide. Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2009. Kindle edition. Locations 13418, 13553 and 13562.
Every. Single. Day.
May 5, 2019
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
3rd Sunday of Easter
Acts 5:27-32; John 21:1-19
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Love Faithfully
May 6, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
6th Sunday of Easter
John 15:9-17; 1 John 5:1-6
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Gospel Text:
Jesus said to his disciples, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.”
What’s in a Name?
January 15, 2017
Christ Church Episcopal, Norcross, GA
The 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Isaiah 49:1-7; 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42
(Gospel Text provided below)
How many of you, either now or at some point in your life, have had a nickname? I’m not talking so much about shortened names, like being called Jimmy instead of James, but more like Ronald Reagan being called “the Gipper” or Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady”.
When I was growing up, my brother used to call both me and my sister “Twin.” It made things easier, especially during front-yard football games. And while my nickname was short-lived, some span a lifetime.
As we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., this weekend, I was curious if he had a nickname. Thanks to Google, I quickly learned that when King was born, he was named Michael, not Martin. When King was 5 years old, his father, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, took a trip to Germany. He was so inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther, that when he returned, he not only changed his own name to Martin, but his son’s, too.[i]
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