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12/18/2011      A Time for Assurance (II Samuel 7.1-11, 16)

I. Introduction

• There are very few things in our world of which we can be sure – according to Benjamin Franklin, the only certain things are death and taxes – I am not complaining – this is the way the world is – I remember the United States read more »

12/17/2011      Eulogy for Mary G. Riley

• How do we take the measure of a life? – this is no small thing – it is not simply a matter of judgment – it is not even primarily a matter of judgment – it is simply that at times such as this, we cannot help but do read more »

12/11/2011      A Time of Justice and Righteousness (Isaiah 61.1-11)

• In the book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible, there is a powerful message about time – if you grew up in the 1960s or ‘70s you probably heard the folk song by Pete Seeger, and made popular by The Byrds, called “Turn, Turn, Turn (To read more »

  12/4/2011      A Word of Comfort (Isaiah 40.1-11)

  I. Introduction

  We all of us need comfort from time to time – last evening at our annual Christmas event, Devi Monjot needed comfort and ran to her mother in the choir – Kay picked up Devi and Devi was able to calm down – and we all know something read more »

  11/20/2011      To Be and to Do (Matthew 25.31-46)

  We are tempted to look at today’s gospel text as a parable, but, really, it is not – it is more like a statement in the tradition of the ancient prophets – it is a word from the Lord concerning, once again, the end time – and Jesus begins the read more »

  11/13/2011      The Faithful Servant (Matthew 25.14-30)

  I. Introduction
  

  • First things first – I know what you are thinking – you are thinking, well, here is another stewardship sermon about using our gifts for God, about not burying our “talents” – you have heard heaven only knows how many sermons on this text in your read more »

  11/6/2011      Be Prepared (Matthew 25.1-13)

  I. Introduction
  

  • In some Christian circles, this parable is extremely important – when I was researching and writing my dissertation, the parable came up repeatedly – you may know that my dissertation is a biography of William Miller, a nineteenth-century self-educated farmer and lay preacher in Upstate New read more »

  10/30/2011      Do as I Say and as I Do (Matthew 23.1-12)

  I. Introduction
  

  • The title of the sermon is a twist on the parents’ old standby saying – when children point out to their parents an inconsistency between word and action, saying, “Dad, I thought we weren’t supposed to yell at the other drivers on the road – I read more »

  10/23/2011      The Law and the Prophets (Matthew 22.34-46)

  I. Introduction
  

  • You may know that the name by which modern Jews refer to the Bible, that is, the Hebrew Bible is Tanakh – this is the collection of texts that Christians have traditionally referred to a the Old Testament – Tanakh is an acronym that arises from read more »

  10/16/2011      Imitation of Christ (Matthew 22.15-22)

  I. Introduction
  

  • Thomas à Kempis was a fifteenth-century monk in Germany – he spent most of his adult life as a copyist in a monastery – we probably would not know him, except that he is the supposed author of a book that has become one of the read more »

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