Monday, November 11, 2019

Love Your Enemies by Christian Tabling


A sermon on the Beatitudes: how can we love our enemies as Jesus teaches us? It starts with a table.

Luke 6:20-31

Preached at Trinity Church in Marshall, TX

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Slow Burn" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

A Homesick Theologian: A Funeral Sermon for Sam Todd


Sam said, "I looked for a long time before I realized who it was I was looking for. When I came to know it was Christ, I stopped looking with my eyes and began looking with my mind and my heart and my soul, and I found him."

 

In memoriam of Samuel Rutherford Todd, Jr. 1940-2019.  


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Monday, October 28, 2019

This is a Parable About Grace


Preached at All Saint's Episcopal in Austin, TX on Oct. 27, 2019. 

"This is not a story about humility, suggesting a new kind of holiness code. It is instead a rejection of holiness codes in their entirety, and a proposal of grace."

Proper 25c (Luke 18:9-14) : The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican


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Thursday, October 24, 2019

Reconciliation Begins with Wrestling with God


Proper24c

On Genesis 32

Preached at St. Stephen's Beaumont, Tx

 


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Monday, October 14, 2019

Your Faith Will Make You Well


This is a sermon on Proper 23c. It is about the Leper returning and worshiping God. I used the story as a foil to talk about the secular frame and how returning to a transcendent God will help remind us of human value and unconditional love.


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Quotes

  • "Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • "Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer." Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • "Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others." Kathleen Norris
  • "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
  • "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton
  • "One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans." C. S. Lewis
  • "When we say, 'I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,' we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too. The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the church seldom asks us for forgiveness." Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
  • "Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it." Bono
  • "It's too easy to get caught in our little church subcultures, and the result is that the only younger people we might know are Christians who are already inside the church." Dan Kimball