The texts for Sunday, November 23, 2014 (Christ the King): Ezekiel 34:11–16, 20–24; Psalm 95:1–7a; Ephesians 1:15–23; and Matthew 25:31–46. The audio of the sermon: Sermon for Christ the King … when we separate ourselves from others when we refuse to acknowledge, as Dorothy Day said, our own soul’s hunger and our own homelessness, we separate ourselves from a GodContinueContinue reading “The homeless King”
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Who is this master?
The texts for Sunday, November 16, 2014 (23rd Sunday after Pentecost): Zephaniah 1:7, 12–18; Psalm 90:1–8[9–11] 12; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11; and Matthew 25:14–30. Link to the audio file of the sermon: Sermon on the Master and three slaves **Most of the sermon was preached without manuscript. In this sermon, I compare Mary’s Magnificat and the God that she describes there withContinueContinue reading “Who is this master?”
Bridesmaids Deconstructed
The texts for Sunday, November 9, 2014 (22nd Sunday after Pentecost): Amos 5:18–24; Psalm 70; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; and Matthew 25:1–13. Link to the audio file: Sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost … Our faith is a faith of waiting of deep, hopeful longing of knowing, somehow that life and creation could be better could be more just couldContinueContinue reading “Bridesmaids Deconstructed”