The Abundant Gift of Freedom: Sermon for the 16th Sunday After Pentecost
-- The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings for Proper 19A: Genesis 50:15-21 Psalm 103:(1-7), 8-13 Romans 14:1-12 Matthew 18:21-35 We are here...
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- Sep 10
- 8 min
Where We Feed Each Other: Sermon for September 9-10, 2023
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, year A Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-11 Psalm 119:33-40 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 Long...
- Sep 3
- 8 min
Fiercely Compassionate: Sermon for Sept. 2-3, 2023 (Proper 17A)
--The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: Jeremiah 15:15-21 Psalm 26:1-8 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 Have you ever had an enemy? I know I...
- Aug 27
- 6 min
The Survey Says-- Love: Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, August 27, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 51:1-6 Psalm 138 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 Who are we? And who is Jesus? Our reading from Romans asks us if we know...
- Aug 20
- 8 min
Renaissance for a Dream: Sermon for Proper 15A, Aug 20 2023
Readings: Isaiah 56:1,6-8 Psalm 67 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 Next week, on August 28, is the 60th anniversary of...
- Aug 13
- 8 min
The Holy Silence: Sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, August 12, 2023
Readings: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Psalm 85:8-13 Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33 In the dawn of the mornings when I am first to rise, I let our...
- Aug 6
- 7 min
Pulling Back the Veil- Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6, 2023
Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:13-21 Luke 9:28-36 When I was a kid, my mother bought me a little microscope at a hobby shop...
- Jul 30
- 8 min
Imagining the Kingdom: Sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2023
Today, I thought it might be fun to start with a little bit of show and tell. In your pews, you will find copies of an illustration on a...
- Jul 16
- 7 min
Soil, Seeds, and Stories: Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 16, 2023
Words are powerful things. They get inside us and change us. They combine together and create ideas, and those ideas can inspire us to...
- Jul 9
- 9 min
The Wisdom of Love: Sermon for Proper 9A, July 9, 2023
I am pretty certain that, if you don’t remember hearing them and studying them before, the readings we just heard may have you a bit...
- Jun 4
- 10 min
Likes and Loves: Sermon for Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2023
A pilot and a priest have died and are waiting in line outside the gates of Heaven for entry. When they reach the front of the line, St....
- May 28
- 9 min
Being Made New: Sermon for the Day of Pentecost, May 28, 2023
Today is a day of creation. In our readings we just heard, we were taken from the very first beginnings of this precious Earth upon which...
- Sep 5, 2021
- 8 min
The Wisdom of Vulnerability: Sermon for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost
A group of rabbis gathered one day after a long day of studying the Book of Bereshit, which we call the Book of Genesis. The question...
- Jun 13, 2021
- 6 min
The Best Seed: Sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6B)
In the week that I have spent here on the Mountain at Sewanee, I've only had a few moments to walk among the forests that surround the...
- Jan 10, 2021
- 9 min
Tearing Back the Heavens: Sermon for the Baptism of the Lord
As I began to ponder these readings at the start of 2021 and the start of this week, there were two things that my mind associated with...
- Dec 25, 2020
- 6 min
The Light That Illumines the Beginning
Sermon for Christmas Day 2020. It has been a most unusual year. It is only fitting then, that we begin our Christmas Day worship with the...
- Dec 24, 2020
- 5 min
What Christmas is All About
It usually happened every year of my childhood at the end of November or the first week of December. No matter what else is going on in...
- Dec 20, 2020
- 7 min
From Yes to Witness: Sermon for Advent 4B
The angel rode a rope of light down through the stars, and landed lighter than a dust mote right behind the old priest. Gabriel, whose...
- Dec 14, 2020
- 9 min
Who--and Whose--Are You? Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent B
The last six weeks and the last six months have found us in the wilderness of loss. We have interred two of our members, had a delayed...
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