On Ash Wednesday, the Rev. George Adamik reflects on baptism as Lent begins: “What do we need to do to get back to the waters of baptism? How do we get out of our regular rhythm and do something different, to be about something different?”
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Sermons (Page 39)
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista reflects on Luke 9:28-36 (The Transfiguration): “What we call productivity is in reality the noise we make to prove to people that we are worthwhile… I hope that we will make room for being, just being, in a culture obsessed with busyness. I hope that—come what may—Christ may visit us on a lone mountain top and that he may walk down with us, wherever the road may lead.”
The Rev. George Adamik recounts a trip to the grocery store and discusses the radical message of Luke 6:27-38: “We’ve fallen into a time when it’s difficult to be open to another viewpoint. We defend our point rather than trying to open ourselves to relationship, to understanding the other viewpoint… The reason I bring this up is to lead us to the gospel we just read. It may be difficult to hear from the point where we view things… The ministry of Jesus was predominately to those on the margins, to those on the periphery of culture, to the poor, to the oppressed, to the enslaved, to those who had no hope…”
The Rev. Carr Holland meditates on the Beatitudes (Luke 6:17-26), vulnerability, and living a meaningful life: “At Yale, there is currently a course for which there are only 60 slots annually but about 250 applicants. It came about because of a realization in the divinity school that a key question of liberal arts education was missing: what makes for a meaningful life?”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista discusses Luke 5:1-11, where Simon, James, and John become “fishers of men.”
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Jesus’s controversial return to his hometown in Luke 4:21-30.
The Rev. Candy Snively discusses Luke 4:14-21, the beginning of Jesus’s ministry, and the relevance of his message today.
The Rev. Carr Holland discusses the Wedding at Cana and grace (John 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11): “I had this image, how some go through life and their days, perceiving they have a pound of sugar or kindness or goodness, some but a cup, and others a teaspoon. And we deal with each other from that perception.”
(Luke 3:15-17, 21-22) A young girl named Joanne got her first job at the tender age of nine. She and her sister cleaned a little Anglican church down the street from their home in England. … She was baptised on July 31, 1976, her eleventh birthday, sprinkled at the font of St. Luke’s Church. She would go on the share her birthday with the main character of a book she would later write. Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, gave birth to the boy who lived, Harry Potter….
On the Feast of the Epiphany (Matthew 2:1-12), the Rev. George Adamik contemplates city skylines and our calling to be “spires of light in the darkness of our world.”