Delivered while pastor at Sojourners United Church of Christ in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Scripture: Luke 22:14-27 I’m guessing that some of you, not all of you but some significant portion of you, are a little bit turned off just by the title of the sermon for this morning. I might be one of those people, but I decided to go with the title anyway so as to not … Read more
Scripture: Matthew 22:15-22 I hope what I have to say this morning will not seem inappropriate. For better or worse, it is what I have to say, and I decided not to censor myself and try to talk about something else that my head or my heart wasn’t really in. So for better or worse… … Read more
Scripture: Mark 12:38-44 I know not all of you were here to hear what Dawg Strong had to say in his words about stewardship last week, but my thoughts for this morning were set in motion by what he said then. What Irving Jones had to say this morning might have inspired a sermon too, … Read more
Scripture: Mark 13:24-37 My sermons for the last few months have been loosely connected by the theme of “the teachings of Jesus”, and I decided to continue that theme for today’s service. I do plan to take a break from the “teachings of Jesus” idea for the rest of the Advent season and come back … Read more
Scripture: Luke 1:39-55 As I mentioned last week, I’ve decided to take a break from sermons on the “teachings of Jesus” for the remainder of the Christmas season, turn to something more seasonal. At a worship committee meeting in November, Beverly mentioned that the choir would be doing several pieces, such as the one they … Read more
Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-5; Luke 2:25-32 This is a sermon I didn’t intend to give. I wasn’t planning to preach a sermon about comfort. I had been planning to follow up the couple of sermons on Mary and the “magnificat” with a sermon on the passage known as the Benedictus, which comes just a paragraph or … Read more