The Vineyard is Open

September 20, 2026

17th Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 20 Year A
Matthew 20:1-16; Exodus 16:2-15

Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon. the second audio file includes the reading for the day.

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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.)

season of creation

For God So Loved the World

Hope is a verb

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.

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Seeing Beyond the Silence

September 20, 2020

Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC

Proper 20 – Year A
Matthew 20:1-16

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