Sermons on Episcopal Eucharist:

Hedging Our Spiritual Bets

Contributed by William Mouser on Feb 28, 2005

Focusing on John the Baptist’s preaching at the first advent, this sermon exhorts to preparation for the second advent.

THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT Luke 3:1-17 “Hedging Our Spiritual Bets” In last Friday’s Wall Street Journal, there was a column by a fellow named Vincent Carrol. He is an editor for the Rocky Mountain News. Let me read you the first three paragraphs of his column. “On Christmas Eve, in line with my ...read more

Scripture: Luke 3:1-17

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Uplifting Tired Arms

Contributed by Stephen Ring on Feb 6, 2004

As the arms of Moses were upheld, so we need to uphold the tired arms of the people in leadership in our churches.

One of the most striking pictures of the church and its role was presented to me as I was walking up King Street in the uptown of Saint John one afternoon. King Street has been cited as the steepest hill in a city of Saint John’s size in all of Canada. A little boy, just tall enough to reach his ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 17:8-15

Denomination: Baptist

The Music Of Christmas

Contributed by Anthony Seel on Dec 25, 2005

Jesus is the Savior, the Christ, the Lord.

CHRISTMAS EVE 2005 December 24, 2005 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church The Rev. M. Anthony Seel, Jr. Luke 2:1-14 “The Music of Christmas” “When he awoke, the song was there. Its melody beckoned and begged him to sing it. It hung upon the wind and settled in the meadows where he walked. He knew its ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-14

Denomination: Lutheran

Bandages Of Love Iv Series

Contributed by Ken Harris on Sep 10, 2007

The purpose of this sermon is to motivate the hearers to affirm to others that anyone in need is their neighbor.

Bandages of Love IV Luke 10:25-37 (NIV) 9 September 2007 U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris Saint James C.M.E. Salinas, California BIG IDEA: Anyone in need is your neighbor. References: Luke 18:18-27(RSV) Story of The Rich Young Ruler; Luke 10:25-37 (NIV); John 15:1-17 “Fruit Bearing”; ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Pentecostal

"Look What God Chose"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jan 29, 2014

A sermon about the wisdom and power of the Cross.

"Look What God Chose" 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 There's an old story about a woman named Ruby Turpin. Ruby was obsessed with status and class. In the story, Ruby was in a doctor's waiting room, sizing up everyone there in the room according to their class. In fact, at night Ruby would spend ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Denomination: United Methodist

Election Of Church Leadership Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Apr 27, 2024

Election in the Church today is very ugly at every level from local congregation to the international forums. According to their spiritual standard people play the politics in a simple position to the highest rank. God hates.

Theme: Election in the Church Text: Acts 1:15-26 Greetings: The Lord is good and his Love endures forever. Introduction: Election in the Church today is very ugly at every level. According to their spiritual standard people play the politics in a simple nomination to the highest positions. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:15-26

Denomination: Methodist

Songs After Silence Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Dec 14, 2024

Everyone loves to listen to Christmas carols. Carols make the Christmas season so special and memorable.Can you imagine Christmas without Christmas carols? There was around four hundred years never heard of joyful celebrations.

Theme: Songs after Silence Text: Luke 1:46-55 Greetings: The Lord is good and his love endures forever.   Introduction: Everyone loves to listen to Christmas carols. Carols make the Christmas season so special and memorable.Can you imagine Christmas without Christmas carols? There was around ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:46-55

Denomination: Methodist

It Is Over. . . And It Has Just Begun . . .

Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Feb 3, 2018

needs of the world will still exist after elections

The campaigning and election is finally over – and there are people rejoicing and people fearing for their lives as they know them. Every election always has a winner and a loser, people who are happy and those who are depressed. But this election has splintered the fabric of America, torn it ...read more

Denomination: Episcopal

To A Bunch Of Grungy Shepherds??????

Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Dec 18, 2019

the lowliest were the first to get the good news of Jesus' birth

Luke 2:8-20 We have been a little out of sequence telling the Nativity story, but this week we finish the story with the first people who were told about and saw the Christ Child. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-20, John 10:11

Denomination: Episcopal

Attaining Full Dignity In Life Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 2, 2021

In the life of Jesus, from start to finish, we find a kind of dialectic between the fragility and uncertainty of human life and the affirmation of that life’s value.

Gospel of Life Monday of 27th Sunday in Course The letter Paul wrote to the Galatians is arguably the most intense book of the New Testament. Jews who were not quite Christianized, who thought that the Way of Christ was simply some Jewish sect, had insinuated themselves into Paul’s communities ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:6-12, Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Catholic

Christian Responsibility Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 7, 2021

Jesus came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it. But in so doing Jesus made us not merely servants of God, but sons and daughters of God.

Homily for Monday of the 19th week in course Did the early followers of Jesus consider themselves to be Christians or Jews? The answer is that their discipleship to Jesus was, in their minds, the completion of Judaism. Jesus came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it. But in so doing Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 17:22-27, Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Denomination: Catholic

Simon Of Cyrene Helps Jesus Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 16, 2022

We don’t know if Simon complained all the way to Golgotha, or recognized Jesus and was glad he had helped, but his name--unlike most of those minor players in the Gospel drama-- has come to us.

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus (Those of us who have had the privilege and honor of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land always make Jerusalem part of the holy time. There, although the Jewish Temple has been replaced by a grand mosque, we can see the very places we read about in the New Testament, the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:32, Mark 15:21, Mark 8:31-34, Matthew 16:24-26, Romans 16:13, John 12:32-33  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

Food That Endures Through Our Faith Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 17, 2021

They didn’t see the sign that the multiplying loaves represented. Jesus’s temporary filling their tummies was supposed to be a sign that faith in Him.

Monday of the Third Week of Easter Fake news is not new. Enemies of the Faith have been inventing tales about Christians even before anyone used the word “Christian.” At His trial, false witnesses invented accusations against Jesus, and in fact said the same thing of Jesus that they later accused ...read more

Scripture: John 6:22-29, Acts 6:8-15, John 4:24

Denomination: Catholic

Looking Forward--And Inward--For The Messianic Age

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 3, 2024

We are an egalitarian people. All of us have equal dignity, even if our economic circumstances differ from each other.

Twenty-Third Sunday in Course 2024 How can we characterize the prophet Isaiah and his disciples, who have given us the greatest collection of prophetic Biblical stories and sayings in the OT? Isaiah and his community were men living in terrible times of strife and suffering whose faith enabled them ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:31-37, James 2:1-5, Psalm 146:7-10, Isaiah 35:4-7

Denomination: Catholic

Jesus Christ Really Did Come In The Flesh And Is Coming Again

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 11, 2024

The clear fact is that all humans need to make themselves ready by faith and good works to be ready at any time for the general judgement, the return of Christ.

Friday of the thirty-second week in course 2024 Let’s spend a moment with our Gospel passage to find from Church teaching what Jesus is not saying by way of St. Luke. There is a school of Christian thought that was popularized in the Left Behind series of books and flicks. It’s called ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:1-2, Psalm 119:10-11, Psalm 119:17-18, Luke 17:26-37, 2 John 1:4-9  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic