Last Moments
March 24, 2024
Church of the Servant
Palm Sunday
Mark 14:1-15:47
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Setting Our Face Toward…
April 10, 2022
Church of the Servant
Fourth Sunday in Lent Luke 19:28-40, Luke 9:51 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
Sources: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Speech on April 8, 2022, after Confirmation as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Charles M. Blow, Cory Booker, ‘You had our Back’, Opinion, New York Times, April 8, 2022, Accessed April 9, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/opinion/cory-booker-ketanji-brown-jackson.html
On the Cross, God is There.
April 5, 2020
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Palm Sunday – Year A
The Passion of our Lord according to Matthew
Transcript:
This Palm Sunday, as with every Palm Sunday, we hear the Passion story. This year, it’s from Matthew’s gospel. Instead of having it in our worshiping sanctuary and hearing it from many adult voices, we have a virtual Zoom version, told in the voices of our teens from Church of the Servant. I don’t know about you, but for me it holds even more meaning hearing it in their voices and knowing that they came together to do it for us as a worshiping community.
A couple of days before the taping of that Passion story, I got a text from Jesus’s mom. Read the rest of this entry »
Collective Remembering
April 9, 2017
Christ Church Episcopal, Norcross, GA
Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
Isaiah 50:4-9a; Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 26:14- 27:66
On the morning of January 2nd this year my Uncle Harris sent an e-mail to his three brothers and two sisters asking if any of them remembered which year their family moved to a new house, which was just a few blocks up the street from their old house. Providing a few memory-joggers:
- Harris first thought it was in the 50’s, but a childhood friend suggested it was the late 40’s.
- He said he didn’t remember going to St. John’s School from the old house, and it opened in 1946.
- He shared a vague recollection of “a bunch of us walking the antenna down the sidewalk” to the new house. This refers to the big antenna for my grandfather’s ham radio which he used to connect, through Morris Code, with people around the globe.
- And then there was the Hallicrafter television. They were the first house on the block to have one. He remembered that their dad brought it home – to the new house – and that it had a 6-inch screen.
Can you imagine watching shows on a 6-inch screen?
I guess the adage is true: “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
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