Sermons from August 2021
An Affair of the Heart
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 24:00 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat anything from…
Getting Oriented
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon Starts at 24:08 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Gospel: John 6:56-69 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this…
How Shall We Live?
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 18:52 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings Epistle: Ephesians 5:15-20 15 Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, 16making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, 19as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing…
Manna From Heaven
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 16:38 in the recording Service Booklet This Sunday’s Readings
The Bread of Life
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon starts at 22:02 in the recording NOTE: There are some sound issues in the first ~90 seconds of the recording; it resolves itself after that. Service Booklet This Week’s Readings Gospel: John 6:24-35 24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him,…