Sermons (Page 2)

Sermons (Page 2)

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

REASON FOR REJOICING Tell me: what kind the things bring you joy? What makes you happy? (Did I hear someone say “beer/wine/bourbon”?) Do any of you enjoy dinner parties? If so, I wonder if you would enjoy the dinner party described in today’s gospel. Pastor Barbara Brown Taylor described what a modern-day version of that party might look like. She writes: “It might…

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Good Shepherd Sermon. August 30/31, 2025.  Luke 14: 1, 7-14                                    “Table Wisdom”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord, and…

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Good Shepherd sermon.  August 23/24, 2025  Luke 13. 10-17 “Our Liberating Lord”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.    There is a book of Jewish tradition from the late second century, called the Mishnah, where there is a list of…

Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

Good Shepherd sermon.  August 17, 2025.  Luke 12. 49-56 “Forecasting the Truth?  Never”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     W-a-y back in the mid 1970’s, I was working at WGN Radio and TV, in Chicago; my first job out…